Colfax Prices 10M Share Offering at $44.25/Share

Colfax Corporation

, a leading global manufacturer of gas- and fluid-handling and fabrication technology products and services, today announced that Colfax and BDT Capital Partners, LLC and certain of its affiliated entities ("BDT Capital") priced an aggregate of 10,000,000 shares of common stock in a registered underwritten public offering at a price per share of $44.25. Colfax sold 7,000,000 shares in the offering and BDT Capital sold 3,000,000 shares. The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 500,000 shares from Colfax and up to an additional 1,000,000 shares from BDT Capital. Settlement of the offering is expected to occur on May 13. Colfax expects to use the proceeds from the sale of the common stock for general corporate purposes, which may include acquisitions, repayment of debt, additions to working capital and capital expenditures. The Company will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares of common stock by BDT Capital. Deutsche Bank Securities is acting as sole book-running manager for the offering. BofA Merrill Lynch and Citigroup are acting as co-lead managers