---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-22-000686"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AZTA"
cik: "0000933974"
company_name: "Azenta, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-02-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T13:21:11.571981+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Azenta completes $3.0B sale of semiconductor automation business to Thomas H. Lee Partners

## Summary
- Net proceeds approximately $2.4B after taxes, fees, and working capital adjustments.
- Used $50.1M of proceeds to repay term loan; terminated $75M revolving credit facility with no balance.
- Two executives (Jarzynka, Pietrantoni) left with sold business; Vandana Sriram appointed Principal Accounting Officer.
- Azenta now focused exclusively on life sciences; plans to use net proceeds for future strategic investments.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-22-000686
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AZTA
- cik: 0000933974
- company_name: Azenta, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-02-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.01, 1.02, 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933974/000155837022000686/0001558370-22-000686-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933974/000155837022000686/azta-20220201x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  David E. Jarzynka departed as President, Brooks Semiconductor Solutions Group at Azenta, Inc..
  - Action: ended employment
  - Role: President, Brooks Semiconductor Solutions Group
  source text: Both David E. Jarzynka, President, Brooks Semiconductor Solutions Group, and David Pietrantoni, Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, continued with the Automation Business and, as a result, their employment with Azenta ended as of the closing of the Disposition on February 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933974/000155837022000686/0001558370-22-000686-index.htm
- Executive change
  Vandana Sriram was appointed as Principal Accounting Officer at Azenta, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: As a result of Mr. Pietrantoni’s departure, Azenta appointed Vandana Sriram, age 48, Azenta’s current Vice President, Finance, and Corporate Controller, as Azenta’s Principal Accounting Officer, effective as of the closing of the Disposition.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933974/000155837022000686/0001558370-22-000686-index.htm
- Executive change
  David Pietrantoni departed as Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer at Azenta, Inc..
  - Action: ended employment
  - Role: Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Both David E. Jarzynka, President, Brooks Semiconductor Solutions Group, and David Pietrantoni, Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, continued with the Automation Business and, as a result, their employment with Azenta ended as of the closing of the Disposition on February 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933974/000155837022000686/0001558370-22-000686-index.htm

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