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Brunswick Group is handling Coherent Inc., the Santa Clara industrial laser maker, which is at the center of a bidding war.
Coherent on Jan. 19 agreed to $5.7B cash/stock merger with San Jose-based Lumentum Holdings optical and photonic products outfit,
It then received more lucrative offers and counter-offers from MKS Instruments (Andover, MA-headquartered process control systems), II-VI (Saxonburg, PA-based engineered materials, optoelectronics company) and Lumentum.
Lumentum revised its offer to $287 per-share on March 22 and gave Coherent a March 24 deadline to respond.
Brunswick has Charlie Koons, Jonathan Doorley and Rebecca Kral working the Coherent business.
MKS Instruments relies on Kekst CNC (Tom Davies and Jeremy Fielding.
II-VI uses Sard Verbinnen & Co. (George Sard, Jared Levy and David Isaacs).
Lumentum depends on Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher (Eric Brielmann and Kelly Sullivan).
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