TransEnterix has acquired the assets of MST Medical Surgery Technologies (MST) in a cash and stock transaction.
The acquisition will add the target company’s advanced surgical image analytics technology capabilities to TransEnterix’s Senhance digital laparoscopy platform.
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The transaction will be completed in two separate cash and stock tranches, with $5.8m being paid in cash and 3.15 million in shares in the first tranche. The second tranche will include $6.6m payable in either cash or stock.
MST’s R&D team will be transferred to an Israel-based subsidiary of TransEnterix and operate under the name TransEnterix Israel.
TransEnterix is an American medical device company, while MST is an Israel-based developer of image analysis software.
The acquisition is part of TransEnterix’s strategy of digitising the interface between the surgeon and the patient.
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