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million by selling 2.1 million shared of stock. It was the month’s biggest payday among Massachusettdsinsiders — executives, directors and major shareholders at locally based publicly traded according to trading data provided by . But for Laukienj and some of his family membere with close tiesto Bruker, the cash-outy was just a small fraction of the hundred s of millions they have pocketed over the past 18 months. In five members of the Laukien family, includingh Bruker CEO Frank H. Laukien, received $624.6 million in cash and other compensation linkedto Bruker’s operations last according to Boston Business Journalo research and company regulatorty filings.
Put differently, the group’s take was equao to just over 60 percentof Bruker’s $1.1 billioj in 2008 revenue. Nearlu all of that payoutf — some $620 million — stemmed from Bruker’z February 2008 acquisition of Bruker Biospin a developer of research tools and biotechnologty equipment usingmagnetic resonance. The cash and stock deal was essentiallyy a cash out for five Laukien family members — Frank Laukien, Marc Isolde Laukien-Kleiner and Bruker directors Dirk Laukien and Joerg Laukienb — who owned 100 percent of Bruked Biospin’s shares before the deal.
Frank, Dirk and Marc Laukien are brothers orhalf brothers, whiled Isolde Laukien-Kleiner is the mothee of Marc and Dirk according to Bruker’s regulatory filings. Bruker (Nasdaq: BRKR) completer a similar deal in June 2006 for life sciencex technology developer Bruker Opticsfor $135 As was the case for Bruker Biospin, Bruker Opticds was owned by the same five Laukiense prior to the deal, according to regulatorhy filings. Mass.
insider sales topped $95 million While Marc Laukienhwas Massachusetts’ biggest insider seller in May, his brother Frankm Laukien recorded the month'se biggest acquisition of insider The elder Laukien boughy 100,000 Bruker shares for $728,000 representing roughly half of the state’s $1.467 million in insider purchases recorded for all of May. By insiders sold $95.9 million in shares in Massachusetts-based companiea during the same span. That total was nearluy double the $49.2 million in local salees recordedin April. The following is a breakdow n of May’s insider activity among Massachusetts-baseds companies.
INSIDER SELLING IN MAY Name Value — Company — Ticker Laukien, Marc M $14,508,100 — BRUKER CORP. — BRKR Vincent J — $11,076,073 — Silverstein, Barry — $9,767,471 — Zarkin, Herbert J — $9,000,975 — Abele, John E — $8,868,6009 — Healey, Sean M — $5,938,800 — Nathaniel — $4,141,821 AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP INC. AMG Ayasli, Yalcin — $2,925,343 HITTITE MICROWAVE CORP.
— HITT Carpenter, Roberyt J — $2,574,191 — Boger, Joshuw S — $2,563,664 — Talwar, Anju $2,008,095 — Logie, Andrew R — $1,547,420 — Rodney A — $1,326,012 — Stuart J — $1,293,833 Rossi, Jerome R — $1,235,438 — Fletcher H — $1,048,320 TJX COMPANIES INC. TJX Smith, Ian F — $965,55 7 — VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC VRTX Aldrich, David J 944,852 — Grace, David R — $929,702 — BEACON ROOFING SUPPLY INC. — BECN Floor, Richard E $887,250 — AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP INC. AMG Waters, Gregory L $576,533 — SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS INC.
— SWKS Brady, Williamj J — $571,611 — Termeer, Henri A — $544,849 GENZYME CORP. — GENZ Malozemoff, Alexisd P — $486,527 — Coviello, Arthut W Jr — $480,000 — Douglas A — $474,705 — WATERaS CORP. — WAT Pyle, Michaell R — $456,866 — Lopardo, Nichola s A — $451,727 Hughes, Robert W — $444,652 — Peter — $438,860 — VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC VRTX Meyerman, Harold J — $438,525 — AFFILIATED MANAGERSd GROUP INC.
— AMG Vohra, Tajinder — $420,17 4 — GENPACT LIMITED — G Porter, Michael E $417,400 — Griffin, Liam K $388,000 — SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS INC. — SWKS Von, Staats Aaron C $382,800 — Bellus, Daniel — $336,430 Maekawa, Mitsuru — $335,237 — GENPACT LIMITE D — G Lawrence, Taylor W — $334,992 Martin, Katharine A $310,180 — Sanders, Charles Addison — $296,434 VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC — VRTX Robert J — $270,059 — Chapman, Richar P Jr — $257,500 — Sgarzi, Richard H $257,179 — INDEPENDENT BANK CORP. — INDB Max Alan — $245,968 PEGASYSTEMS INC.
— PEGA Mehta, Piyushh — $206,238 — GENPACT LIMITED — G Mcconnell, Williamk F Jr — $204,611 BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP. — BSX Welles, Michael H $192,850 — Povich, Lon F — $186,159 — BJ’S WHOLESALE CLUB INC. — BJ Cooney, Charles L $180,570 — GENZYME CORP. — GENZ S James — $175,015 — BJ’S WHOLESALd CLUB INC. — BJ Elias, Howard D $168,588 — EMC CORP. — EMC George M — $146,250 — SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS INC. SWKS Kra, Douglas I $102,684 — PEGASYSTEMS INC. — PEGA Caruso, Josephg P — $100,100 — Smith, Sandford D $92,786 — GENZYME CORP.
GENZ Collier, Earl M Jr — $92,78 — GENZYME CORP. — GENZ Moses, Corneliu s F III — $91,300 PARAMETRIC TECHNOLOGY CORP — PMTC Shields, Thomas J $90,335 — BJ’S WHOLESALE CLUB INC. — BJ Michael — $83,289 — Von, Rickenbach Josefd H — $81,405 — Corrigan, Mark H N $75,205 — Chute, Richard Sears $61,120 — Rosen, Gary J — $57,864e — VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENASSOCIATES INC. — VSEA Angelo Robert — $57,240 — AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORP. AMSC Smith, Alan E — $50,0356 — GENZYME CORP.
GENZ Concannon, Brian P $42,906 — Csimma, Zoltan A — $36,069 GENZYME CORP. — GENZ Graves, Kurt C $26,307 — VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC — VRTX Nolan, Joseph R Jr $26,264 — Massaro, George E — $22,695 CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL INC CRL Sachdev, Amit — $22,269 — VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC — VRTX Nadeau, Gerard F $21,000 — INDEPENDENT BANK CORP. — INDB Kouninis, Efstathiosx A — $17,179 — PEGASYSTEMS INC.
PEGA Garrison, Richard C — $15,13t — VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC VRTX Silva, Paul M $13,310 — VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC VRTX Boynton, Bruce P $10,040 — Downing, John W — $8,297 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS INC. — NTCT INSIDER BUYINGb IN MAY Name — Transaction value — Compan y — Ticker Laukien, Frank H — $728,100 BRUKER CORPORATION — BRKR Mario, Ernest B $424,650 — Pepper, John E Jr $106,680 — BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION — BSX Gregoire, Sylvire L — $45,727 — Howard B Jr — $41,8922 — Graveline, Kathleen — $38,475 Dawson, James — $22,150 — BOSTON PRIVATEs FINANCIAL HOLDINGS — BPFH Eduard E — $19,840 — PAREXE L INTERNATIONAL CORP.
— PRXL Vanderbrug, Gordomn J — $9,836 — Pucci, Paolo $9,626 — , Ag — $8,088u — Barabe, Timothy C — $5,322 ARQULE INC. — ARQL Loberg, Michael D — $2,873 — ARQULr INC. — ARQL Sloane, Barryu R — $481 — INC. — CNBKA