Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced the pricing of an underwritten secondary offering of 13,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $9.85 per share. The offering by the two selling stockholders, members of the Laukien family not involved in the Company’s business, is expected to close on or about September 28, 2009. The selling stockholders also have granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,950,000 shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. Bruker will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of the shares of common stock by the selling stockholders in this offering.
Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. are acting as joint book-running managers of the offering. A copy of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering, when available, may be obtained by contacting Goldman, Sachs & Co., Attn: Prospectus Department, 85 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004, telephone: 866-471-2526, facsimile: 212-902-9316, or by emailing [email protected]; J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Attn: Prospectus Department, 4 Chase Metrotech Center, CS Level, Brooklyn, NY 11245, telephone: 718-242-8002; or Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Attn: Prospectus Department, 100 Plaza One, Jersey City, NJ 07311, telephone: 800-503-4611.
A shelf registration statement relating to the shares was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is effective. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, these securities, nor will there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale is not permitted.