Zygo Board withdraws recommendation for ESI merger

Jan. 23, 2009

Zygo Corporation (Middlefield, CT), supplier of optical metrology instruments, precision optics, and optoelectronic design and manufacturing services, notified Electro Scientific Industries (ESI; Portland, OR) of Zygo's Board of Directors' withdrawal of its recommendation in favor of the previously announced merger agreement with ESI.

Gail Overton

A reevaluation of the proposed merger with ESI by Zygo's Board was necessitated by changes in conditions since the merger agreement was executed on October 15, 2008, and the Zygo Board's view of the impact of these changes on the current and expected performance and operations of Zygo and ESI.

The merger agreement will remain in effect unless terminated in accordance with its terms. Pursuant to the terms of the merger agreement, ESI has the right to terminate the merger agreement as a result of Zygo's Board's withdrawal of its recommendation.

For more information, go to www.zygo.com.

About the Author

Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.