Antares Capital served as administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner of senior secured credit facilities to support the acquisition of Advanced Instruments by Windjammer Capital Investors.

Founded in 1955 and headquartered in Norwood, MA, Advanced Instruments is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of instrumentation and associated consumables for clinical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, microbiology and dairy laboratories around the world.

“We are pleased to have Antares lead the financing for our investment in Advanced Instruments,” said Daniel Lee, vice president for Windjammer Capital. “They worked quickly and diligently through approvals and made a sizeable commitment to support the transaction.”

Windjammer Capital Investors is a private investment firm that makes control and non-control investments in middle market businesses in partnership with management.