Medline Announces Pricing of Upsized Initial Public Offering
NORTHFIELD, Ill., Dec. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medline Inc. (“Medline”) announced today the pricing of its upsized initial public offering of 216,034,482 shares of its Class A common stock, at a public offering price of $29.00 per share. Medline has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 32,405,172 shares of Class A common stock. The shares are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on December 17, 2025, under the symbol “MDLN.”
Medline intends to use the proceeds (net of underwriting discounts) from the issuance of 179,000,000 shares to repay outstanding indebtedness under its senior secured term loan facilities and the remainder for general corporate purposes and to bear the expenses of the offering. Medline intends to use the proceeds (net of underwriting discounts) from the issuance of 37,034,482 shares and from any issuance of shares pursuant to any exercise by the underwriters of their option to purchase an additional 32,405,172 shares of Class A common stock to purchase or redeem an equivalent aggregate number of outstanding equity interests from certain of its pre-IPO owners. The offering is expected to close on December 18, 2025, subject to customary closing conditions.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities and J.P. Morgan are acting as global coordinators and lead bookrunning managers for the proposed offering. Barclays, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, Jefferies, UBS Investment Bank, Evercore ISI, BMO Capital Markets, BNP Paribas, MUFG, RBC Capital Markets, Santander, Societe Generale, TD Cowen, Wells Fargo Securities, Wolfe | Nomura Alliance, Leerink Partners, Macquarie Capital, Mizuho, Piper Sandler, Truist Securities and William Blair are acting as bookrunning managers, and Blackstone Capital Markets, Carlyle, Baird, Rothschild & Co, Stifel, BTIG, ING, IMI – Intesa Sanpaolo, NCMG, Perella Weinberg, Academy Securities, AmeriVet Securities, Blaylock Van, LLC, C.L. King & Associates, Drexel Hamilton, Loop Capital Markets, Mischler Financial Group, Inc., R. Seelaus & Co., LLC, Ramirez & Co., Inc., Siebert Williams Shank and Tigress Financial Partners are acting as co-managers for the proposed offering.
