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Cytori Therapeutics: Soon to Be Sold to Olympus?

Quote- Olympus Corp. should consider a buyout of its smaller partner instead of funding it through equity investments and private placements. End-Quote

Mike- hope you are ok- despite >100 Mio investment by Olympus in the hardware development that the market doesnt see and the JV deal of 35 Mio that is known besides the equity input of 4 mio shares at about 26 Mio- Olympus still owns only 14% of Cytori.

Major stakeholders know this situation perfectly well and appreciate the added value that Olympus created.
Presently 7 investigator initiated trials are underway or upcoming in Japan for a variety of indications at no cost to Cytori, but using its technology (and actually paying for it)
Cant imagine Cytori "organized" this- this is all Olympus induced in my mind.

So yes you are right, makes sense for Olympus to embrace the benefits of their own efforts- but on the other side- the hard core stockholders of CYTX knowing the prospects of the company and knowing the monetairy value of the Olympus efforts, would jack up the pricetag in astronomical hights, which they surely cant sell to their shareholders.

Thats fine - the Japanese to my mind have a totally different (and positive) mentality- they dont HAVE to own everything but also appreciate loyal partnerships and building special things together to the benefit of mankind- and making some money in the process.