Bausch + Lomb
Warburg Pincus and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan acquired Bausch & Lomb for $4.5B in 2007. Sold to Valeant Pharmaceuticals (now Bausch Health) for $8.7B in 2013. Bausch Health later became notorious for drug price increases. Bausch + Lomb re-IPO'd in 2022.
- FOUNDED
- 1853
- ACQUIRED
- Warburg Pincus, 2007, $4.5B
- WEB
- bausch.com
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1853
Bausch + Lomb founded
2007
Acquired by Warburg Pincus for $4.5B
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