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John Soden

Managing Director
Healthcare Investment Banking
+1 415.364.5941
jsoden@tweisel.com


John Soden is a Managing Director in Healthcare Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners. John joined the firm in 2004 and is based in San Francisco. He focuses on medical technologies, diagnostics and life science tools/reagents. He has 14 years of experience in investment banking. Prior to joining the firm, John was a Director in both the Healthcare and M&A groups at UBS Investment Bank; he joined the predecessor firm, Dillon, Read & Co. as an Associate. He began his investment banking career as a Financial Analyst focused on Energy M&A at CS First Boston. John received a BA degree in Economics with honors from Northwestern University.
Notable Transactions

Company Name
Ticker Trans. Type Trans. Amt.
(in M)
Trans. Date
Danaher Corporation/Life Technologies (AB Sciex mass spectrometry JV)
LIFE M&A $450.0 USD 2/1/10
Affymetrix/Panomics
AFFX M&A $74.7 USD 12/5/08
Omniguide
-- PP $25.0 USD 5/15/08
Applied Precision/Telegraph Hill Partners
Private M&A $94.0 USD 4/30/08
Drive Medical
-- PP $25.0 USD 4/17/08
AngioScore
-- PP $31.0 USD 10/9/07
ev3 Inc./FoxHollow Technologies, Inc.
EVVV M&A $780.0 USD 10/4/07
Symyx Technologies/MDL Information Systems
SMMX M&A $123.0 USD 10/2/07
Caliper Life Sciences/Xenogen Corp.
CALP M&A $80.0 USD 8/9/06
American Medical Systems Holdings, Inc/Laserscope
AMMD M&A $715.0 USD 7/19/06
American Medical Systems Holdings
AMMD CVT $373.8 USD 6/21/06
Applied Biosystems Inc./Ambion
ABI M&A $273.0 USD 3/2/06
ev3 Inc.
EVVV IPO $167.7 USD 6/16/05
Jabil Circuit Inc./Varian Inc. EMS Division
VARI M&A $195.0 USD 3/11/05
FoxHollow Technologies
FOXH IPO $72.5 USD 10/28/04

TWP transactions indicated in bold.