DuPont will divest certain crop protection assets and acquire FMC's Health & Nutrition business in transactions contingent on the DowDuPont merger:
- DuPont will sell cereal and broadleaf herbicides and chewing insecticides, along with crop protection R&D, to FMC for $1.4B
- DuPont will acquire FMC's Health & Nutrition business, including food ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients, for $707M
- DuPont will receive $1.625B from FMC, consisting of $1.2B in cash and $425M in retained working capital
The transactions are expected to close in 4Q 2017 following the targeted August 2017 close of the DowDuPont merger, preserving $3B in