Boston Scientific Adds $2B in Debt

Boston Scientific, the giant medical device company, said today it has raised $2 billion in a debt financing. The Natick, MA-based company (NYSE: [[ticker:BSX]]) secured interest rates ranging between 4.5 percent and 7.38 percent on notes that have to be paid back between 2015 and 2040.

Author: Luke Timmerman

Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.