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☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from __________ to __________

Commission file number: 001-38912

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(Address of principal executive offices) (zip code)

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

Trading symbol

Exchange on which registered

Common stock, $0.01 par value

AVTR

New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. ☒ Yes ☐ No

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. ☐ Yes ☒ No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. ☒ Yes ☐ No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). ☒ Yes ☐ No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. ☒ Large Accelerated Filer ☐ Accelerated Filer ☐ Non-accelerated Filer ☐ Smaller reporting company ☐ Emerging growth company

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☒

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to § 240.10D-1(b). ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ☐ Yes ☒ No

The aggregate market value of common stock held by our non-affiliates at June 30, 2023 was $13,877,913,401.

On February 9, 2024, 678,281,383 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share, were outstanding.

Portions of our definitive proxy statement for our 2024 annual meeting of stockholders will be filed with the SEC on or before 120 days after our 2023 fiscal year-end and are incorporated by reference into Part III of this report.

This report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and are subject to the safe harbor created thereby under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this report are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements discuss our current expectations and projections relating to our financial condition, results of operations, plans, objectives, future performance and business. These statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words “aim,” “anticipate,” “assumption,” “believe,” “continue,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “goal,” “guidance,” “intend,” “likely,” “long-term,” “near-term,” “objective,” “opportunity,” “outlook,” “plan,” “potential,” “project,” “projection,” “prospects,” “seek,” “target,” “trend,” “can,” “could,” “may,” “should,” “would,” “will,” the negatives thereof and other words and terms of similar meaning.

Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions; they are not guarantees of performance. You should not place undue reliance on these statements. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. Although we believe that our assumptions made in connection with the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you that the assumptions and expectations will prove to be correct.

You should understand that the following important factors, in addition to those discussed under Item 1A, “Risk factors” and Item 7, “Management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations” could affect our future results and could cause those results or other outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied in our forward-looking statements:

•disruptions to our operations;

•competition from other industry providers;

•our ability to implement our strategies for improving growth and optimizing costs;

•our ability to anticipate and respond to changing industry trends;

•adverse trends in consumer, business, and government spending;

•our dependence on sole or limited sources for some essential materials and components;

•our ability to successfully value and integrate acquired businesses;

•our products’ satisfaction of applicable quality criteria, specifications and performance standards;

•our ability to maintain our relationships with key customers;

•our ability to maintain our relationships with distributors;

•our ability to maintain our customer base and our expected volume of customer orders;

•our ability to maintain and develop relationships with drug manufacturers and contract manufacturing organizations;

•the impact of new laws, regulations, or other industry standards;

•changes in the interest rate environment that increase interest on our borrowings;

•adverse impacts from currency exchange rates or currency controls imposed by any government in major areas where we operate or otherwise;

•our ability to implement and improve processing systems and prevent a compromise of our information systems or personal data;

•our ability to protect our intellectual property and avoid third-party infringement claims;

•exposure to product liability and other claims in the ordinary course of business;

•our ability to develop new products responsive to the markets we serve;

•supply chain constraints and the availability of raw materials;

•our ability to source certain of our products from certain suppliers;

•our ability to contain costs in an inflationary environment;

•our ability to avoid negative outcomes related to the use of chemicals;

•our ability to maintain highly skilled employees;

•our ability to maintain a competitive workforce;

•adverse impact of impairment charges on our goodwill and other intangible assets;

•fluctuations and uncertainties related to doing business outside the United States;

•our ability to obtain and maintain required regulatory clearances or approvals may constrain the commercialization of submitted products;

•our ability to comply with environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, or the impact of any liability or obligation imposed under such laws or regulations;

•our indebtedness could adversely affect our financial condition and prevent us from fulfilling our debt or contractual obligations;

•our ability to generate sufficient cash flows or access sufficient additional capital to meet our debt obligations or to fund our other liquidity needs; and

•our ability to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting.

All forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. In addition, all forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this report. We undertake no obligations to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise other than as required under the federal securities laws.

At Avantor, everything we do is tied to our unique mission of setting science in motion to create a better world.

We are a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries. Our business model is grounded in supporting our customers from discovery to delivery and Avantor is embedded in virtually every stage of the most important research, scale-up and manufacturing activities in the industries we serve.

Our comprehensive offering provides scientists all they need to conduct their research: materials & consumables, equipment & instrumentation and services & specialty procurement. Our customer-centric innovation model enables us to provide solutions for some of the most demanding applications, and we leverage our comprehensive offering and access to early-stage research to identify and develop content and solutions that ultimately become specified into our customers’ approved production platforms. Our broad portfolio of products and services, fully integrated business model and global supply chain enable us to support our customers’ journey every step of the way.

We have a number of distinctive capabilities that set us apart from other companies in our space. For example, our global footprint offers extraordinary customer access, enabling us to serve more than 300,000 customer locations in more than 180 countries around the world.

Our legacy began in 1904 with the founding of the J.T. Baker Chemical Company. In 2010, we were acquired by New Mountain Capital from Covidien plc. Since then, we have expanded through a series of large acquisitions which have extended our global reach. In 2016, we merged with NuSil, a leading supplier of high-purity silicone products for the medical device and aerospace industries that was founded in 1985. In 2017, we acquired VWR, a global manufacturer and distributor of laboratory and production products and services founded in 1852.

Avantor, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in May 2017 in anticipation of the VWR acquisition. We completed our initial public offering through Avantor, Inc. and listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange in May 2019.

In June 2021, we acquired Ritter, a manufacturer of high-quality robotic and liquid handling consumables used in a variety of molecular screening and diagnostic applications. In November 2021, we acquired the Masterflex bioprocessing business of Antylia Scientific. Masterflex is a leading global manufacturer of peristaltic pumps and aseptic single-use fluid transfer technologies.

We have reported financial results in three geographic segments based on customer location: the Americas, Europe and AMEA. The following chart presents the approximate mix of net sales for each of those segments during 2023:

Within each of our geographic segments, we sell materials & consumables, equipment & instrumentation and services & specialty procurement to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government and advanced technologies & applied materials industries. We work with customers across these sophisticated, science-driven industries that require innovation and adherence to the most demanding technical and regulatory requirements. The following charts present the approximate mix of net sales for each of these groups during 2023:

On December 7, 2023, we disclosed that the company will transition from three geographic segments to two complementary business segments focused on customer needs: Laboratory Solutions and Bioscience Production, effective January 1, 2024.

Our portfolio includes a comprehensive range of products and services that allows us to create customized and integrated solutions for our customers. These products and services enable our customers to achieve precise analytical results in their research, diagnostic, and quality assurance and quality control activities. More than 85% of our net sales were from product and service offerings that we consider to be recurring in nature. Our products and services are as follows:

•Materials & consumables include ultra-high purity chemicals and reagents, lab products and supplies, highly specialized formulated silicone materials, customized excipients, customized single-use assemblies, process chromatography resins and columns, analytical sample prep kits and education and microbiology and clinical trial kits, peristaltic pumps and fluid handling tips. Some of these are proprietary products that we make while others are produced by third parties;

•Equipment & instrumentation include filtration systems, virus inactivation systems, incubators, analytical instruments, evaporators, ultra-low-temperature freezers, biological safety cabinets and critical environment supplies; and

•Services & specialty procurement include onsite lab and production, clinical, equipment, procurement and sourcing and biopharmaceutical material scale-up and development services.

In aggregate, we provide millions of SKUs, including high value specialty products developed to exacting purity and performance specifications. Our proprietary brands have been specified and trusted for decades. Our e-commerce platform, Avantor ScienceCentral, makes it easy for customers to do business with us and enables digital marketing efforts that position us to capture new demand. All of our capabilities are underpinned by our Avantor Business System which drives execution and continuous improvement. We manufacture products that meet or exceed the demanding requirements of our customers across a number of highly-regulated industries. Our high-purity and ultra-high purity products, such as our J.T.Baker brand chemicals, are trusted by life sciences and electronic materials customers around the world and can be manufactured at purity levels as stringent as one part-per-trillion. Similarly, our NuSil brand of high-purity, customized silicones has been trusted for more than 30 years by leading medical device manufacturers and aerospace companies.

Our services organization of over 2,500 colleagues work side-by-side with our customers to support their workflows. Our traditional service offerings focus on the needs of laboratory scientists and include procurement, logistics, chemical and equipment tracking and glassware autoclaving. In addition, we offer more complex and value-added scientific research support services such as DNA extraction, bioreactor servicing, clinical and biorepository services and compound management.

We benefit from longstanding customer relationships, and approximately 40% of our 2023 net sales came from customers that have had relationships with us for 15 years or more. We also have a diverse customer base with no single end customer comprising more than 5% of net sales.

We sell proprietary products we make and third-party products sourced from a wide variety of product suppliers located across the globe. Our supplier relationships are based on contracts that vary in geographic scope, duration, product and service type, and some include exclusivity provisions. Those relationships may include distribution, sales and marketing support as well as servicing of instruments and equipment.

Many of our supplier relationships have been in place for more than twenty years.

We reach our customers throughout the Americas, Europe and AMEA via a well-trained global sales force, comprehensive websites and targeted catalogs. Our sales force is comprised of approximately 3,700 sales and sales support professionals, including over 200 sales specialists selected for their in-depth industry and product knowledge. Our sales professionals include native speakers for each of the countries in which we operate, allowing us to have high impact interactions with our customers across the globe.

Our e-commerce platform, Avantor ScienceCentral, plays a vital role in how we conduct business with our customers. In 2023, approximately 75% of our transactions came from our digital channels. Our websites utilize search analytics and feature personalized search tools, customer specific web solutions and enhanced data that optimize our customers’ online purchasing experience with rich content and AI-based recommendations and better integrate our customers’ processes with our own. Our websites are designed to integrate acquisitions, drive geographical expansion and serve segmented market needs with ease. In addition, we have introduced digital services and solutions that streamline lab procurement and operations and have become embedded into many customers’ laboratories, such as Avantor’s Inventory Manager.

We have more than 200 facilities strategically located throughout the globe that include manufacturing, distribution, service, research & technology and sales centers.

We operate over 45 global manufacturing facilities, including 19 facilities that are cGMP compliant and have been registered with the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities. Our facilities are strategically located in North America, Europe and the AMEA region to facilitate supply chain efficiency and proximity to customers. Our manufacturing capabilities include: (i) an ability to quickly change specifications depending on customer needs; (ii) our flexible unit operations, which allow for production scalability, from laboratory pre-clinical development to large-volume commercialization; (iii) proprietary purification technologies designed to ensure lot-to-lot consistency through ultra-low impurity levels; (iv) rigorous analytical quality control testing; and (v) robust regulatory and quality control procedures. Our global network of distribution centers gives our customers security of supply and real-time flexibility. We also have 13 innovation centers that enable extensive collaboration and customization, critical elements for serving highly regulated, specification-driven applications.

We have a highly automated suite of ERP systems that promote standardization and provide business insight. Our global web infrastructure provides seamless integration with our customers and suppliers. These ERP platforms support rapid development and deployment of enhancements so that we may quickly adapt to meet the technology needs of our customers and seamlessly integrate new acquisitions. We have made significant investments to implement common ERP and online platforms that enhance the customer experience and employ network and data security architecture.

We operate in a highly competitive environment with a diverse and fragmented base of competitors, many of whom focus on specific regions, customers, and/or segments. We focus on service and delivery, breadth of product line, customization capabilities, price, customer support, online capabilities and the ability to meet the special and local needs of our customers.

Competition is driven not only by the product quality and purity across industries we serve, but also by the adaptability of the supplier as a developmental and commercial partner. We rely on our scale, expertise, deep customer access, depth of product and value-added service offerings, marketing strategies and sales force, acquisition strategy, financial profile and management team to deliver superior solutions to our customers and provide extensive market channel access to our suppliers.

Our Science for Goodness sustainability platform enhances our framework for creating long-term value by embedding sound environmental, social and governance practices into our business strategy. The platform also enables us to continually measure and report progress against four key commitment pillars, which are aligned with several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Our sustainability is reflected in our people, the products we create, the transformative services we provide, and the integrity with which we serve our shareholders, business partners, suppliers, customers, and communities. Our efforts to build a more sustainable future include programs to monitor, measure, and set strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address our waste and water footprint. As part of our commitment to accelerate sustainable practices across the supply chain, in June 2023, we launched Avantor’s Responsible Supplier Program, which was piloted with a small cohort of supplier partners in 2022. The program focuses on six priorities: climate change, deforestation, human rights, responsible packaging, waste, and water. These priorities were selected based on their relevance to Avantor and to suppliers' businesses, enabling collaboration with supplier partners to identify sustainability challenges and solutions. In late 2023, we announced new 2030 science-based climate targets with a goal to achieve by 2030 a 50% absolute reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions and a 25% absolute reduction in scope 3 emissions from a 2020 baseline.

We have consistently improved our sustainability scores, and in 2023 we received a Bronze Medal from EcoVadis rating agency. In addition, Avantor was recognized as an Equality 100 Award: Leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion honoree by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index.

Our success depends on our ability to attract, retain and motivate highly qualified and diverse talent. As of December 31, 2023, we had approximately 14,500 employees located in over 30 different countries in a variety of roles. Approximately 5,900 of our associates were employed in the U.S. We believe that our relations with our employees are good. As of December 31, 2023, approximately 5% of our employees in North America were represented by unions, and a majority of our employees in Europe were represented by workers’ councils or unions. We compete in the highly competitive life sciences industry. Attracting, developing and retaining talented people in technical, marketing, sales, research and other positions is crucial to executing our strategy and our ability to compete effectively. Our ability to recruit and retain such talent depends on a number of factors, including a positive and inclusive work environment and culture, compensation and benefits, talent development and career growth and opportunities, and protecting the health, safety and well-being of our associates. To that end, we invest in our associates in order to be an employer of choice.

Our associates reflect the communities in which we live and work, the customers we serve, and possess a broad range of thought and experiences that have helped Avantor achieve our goal of setting science in motion to create a better world.

Enhancing our Associate Experience is a strategic priority for Avantor. Our values give our associates a foundation for how we want to work together. Innovation, Customer-centricity, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence are the building blocks of our company culture and send a strong message to our associates, customers, suppliers, stockholders and communities: ICARE. In addition, our executive leaders serve as sponsors of our Associate-Centric Teams (ACTs) in support of our diversity and inclusion initiatives. ACTs are employee resource groups that foster an inclusive work environment, build connections, create community, and promote career opportunities. Based on common interests, backgrounds or characteristics, ACTs are open to all associates and serve as a support system to promote awareness, respect, and inclusion in the workplace. Additionally, Avantor’s Talent Philosophy is a part of commitment to our associates and guides our managers in their role in supporting our people and our culture.

We are committed to rewarding, supporting and developing the associates who make it possible to deliver on our strategy. To that end, we offer a comprehensive total rewards program aimed at the varying health, home-life and financial needs of our diverse and global associates. Our total rewards package includes market-competitive pay, broad-based stock grants and bonuses, healthcare benefits, retirement savings plans, an employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and family leave, flexible work schedules, access to wellness programs, free physicals and flu vaccinations, and an Employee Assistance Program and other mental health services.

We invest significant resources to develop talent with the right capabilities to deliver the growth and innovation needed to support our strategy. We offer associates and their managers numerous tools to help in their personal and professional development, including our Avantor Career Hub which enables associates to highlight their skills, capture development plans, make connections and find new opportunities inside Avantor. We have a robust portfolio of learning solutions that can be accessed in multiple formats and available to our global associates across various professional, personal and leadership development areas. Each year, we host a Learning & Career week program which is available to associates at all levels globally, and includes a diverse slate of learning opportunities, live sessions and on-demand resources designed to support the personal and professional growth and success of associates. In 2023, we hosted our first Avantor Leadership Experience for individuals at the Director, Vice President and Senior Vice President level. In addition, we provide programs on the Avantor Business System, which drives excellence in people, processes and problem solving. These consistent lean leadership practices empower associates to continuously improve and add value to our operations and customer solutions. We have aligned our performance management system through which 100% of our associates receive annual performance reviews, to support our culture of feedback to increase the focus on continuous learning and development. Our Career Accelerator programs are focused on providing management skills training to high-performing individual contributors and early career associates in underrepresented ethnicities.

We are committed to protecting the health, safety and well-being of our associates. Our approach involves environment, health and safety professionals and process engineers who identify risks and implement behavioral solutions to prevent accidents before they occur. A robust auditing program is in place at every facility to ensure that we measure performance and drive continuous improvement. Our core areas of focus include compliance with regulatory and international requirements, active monitoring of regulatory agencies for changing requirements, partnering with operational leaders to meet Environment, Health & Safety, Security & Sustainability (EHSSS) requirements, and promoting effective communication throughout the organization.

We rely on intellectual property rights, nondisclosure and other contractual provisions and technical measures to protect our offerings, services and intangible assets. Much of our intellectual property is know-how and asset configurations that we treat as trade secrets. These proprietary rights are important to our ongoing operations. In some instances, we may license our technology to third parties or may elect to license intellectual property from others. We have applied in the United States and certain foreign countries for registration of number of trademarks, service marks and patents, some of which have been registered and issued. We also hold common law rights in various trademarks and service marks. Other than our Avantor, VWR, J.T.Baker, NuSil and Masterflex trademarks, we do not consider any particular patent, trademark, license, franchise or concession to be material to our overall business.

Our business is not seasonal, but some of our proprietary products have exhibited cyclical customer demand in prior periods. We believe that this is caused by factors unique to those particular product markets such as customer manufacturing schedules, inventory levels in the supply chain and government approval processes. As a result, we may see fluctuations across periods as the timing of our customers’ demand for these products may change.

We conduct business with various government agencies and government contractors. As such, we are subject to certain laws and regulations applicable to companies doing business with the government, as well as with those concerning government contracts. Failure to address or comply with these laws and regulations could harm our business by leading to a renegotiation of profits or termination of the contract at the election of the government agency. For a discussion of risks related to government contracting requirements, refer to “Item 1A, Risk Factors.” No government contract is of such a magnitude as to have a material adverse effect on our financial results.

Our facilities that engage in the manufacturing, packaging, distribution and other biopharmaceutical and biomaterials production, as well as many of our products themselves, are subject to extensive ongoing regulation by U.S. governmental authorities, the EMA and other global regulatory authorities. Certain of our subsidiaries are required to register with these agencies, or to apply for permits and/or licenses with, and must comply with the operating, cGMP, quality and security standards of applicable domestic and foreign regulators, including the FDA, the DEA, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, DHHS, the equivalent agencies of European Union (EU) member states, and comparable foreign, state and local agencies, as well as various accrediting bodies, each depending upon the type of operation and the locations of storage or sale of the products manufactured or services provided by those subsidiaries in the event of noncompliance.

In order to maintain certain certifications of quality and safety standards for our manufacturing facilities and operations, we must comply with numerous regulatory systems, standards, guidance and other requirements, as appropriate, including, but not limited to, ICH Q7, the guidelines of the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council, European in vitro diagnostic medical device directives, U.S. Pharmacopeia / National Formulary, as well as the European, British, Japanese, Indian and Chinese Pharmacopeia, the Food Chemicals Codex and controlled substances regulations.

In addition, our operations, and some of the products we offer, are subject to a number of complex and stringent laws and regulations governing the production, handling, transportation and distribution of chemicals, drugs and other similar products. We are subject to various federal, state, local, foreign and transnational laws, regulations and recommendations, both in the U.S. and abroad, relating to safe working conditions, good laboratory and distribution practices, and the safe and proper use, transportation and disposal of hazardous or potentially hazardous substances. In addition, U.S. and international import and export laws and regulations, including those enforced by the U.S. Departments of Commerce, State and Treasury, OFAC and BIS, require us to abide by certain standards relating to the cross-border transit of finished goods, raw materials and supplies and the handling of related information. Our logistics activities must comply with the rules and regulations of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, and the Federal Aviation Administration and similar foreign agencies. We are also subject to various other laws and regulations concerning the conduct of our foreign operations, including the FCPA and other anti-bribery laws as well as laws pertaining to the accuracy of our internal books and records.

The costs associated with complying with the various applicable federal, state, local, foreign and transnational regulations could be significant, and the failure to comply with such legal requirements could have an adverse effect on our reputation, results of operations and financial condition. See Item 1A, “Risk factors—Risks related to regulation.” We are subject to audits by the FDA and other similar foreign regulatory bodies. To date, we have had no instances of noncompliance that have had a material impact on our operations.

In addition to the regulations described above, as part of our aerospace and military offerings, we are registered with the DDTC as a manufacturer and exporter of goods controlled by ITAR, and we are subject to strict export control and prior approval requirements related to these goods. In connection with our NuSil brand products, we have one ITAR site registration and one ITAR product registration, and we maintain control systems which enable ITAR compliance. With respect to our electronic materials products, we adhere to applicable industry guidelines which set stringent quality criteria for our products, and we are subject to import and export regulations and other restrictions regarding the safe use of these products as well.

We are also subject to various federal, state and international laws and regulations related to privacy and data protection, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) as well as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), which became effective on January 1, 2020 (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, which took effect on January 1, 2023, the “CPRA”). The interpretation and application of data privacy, cross-border data transfers and data protection laws and regulations are often uncertain and are evolving in the U.S. and internationally, such as in the EU, China and other jurisdictions. We monitor pending and proposed legislation and regulatory initiatives to ascertain their relevance to, and potential impact on, our business and develop strategies to address regulatory trends and developments, including any required changes to our privacy and data protection compliance programs and policies.

Globally, we see a growing trend toward data protection laws and regulations increasing in complexity and number, and we anticipate that our obligations will expand commensurately.

We are subject to various laws and governmental regulations concerning environmental, safety and health matters, including employee safety and health, in the U.S. and other countries. U.S. federal environmental legislation that affects us includes the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and CERCLA. These laws and regulations govern, among other things, air emissions, wastewater discharges, the use, handling and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, soil and groundwater contamination and the general health and safety of our associates and the communities in which we operate. We are also subject to regulation by OSHA concerning employee safety and health matters. The EPA, OSHA, and other federal and foreign or local agencies have the authority to promulgate regulations that may impact our operations.

Under CERCLA, and analogous statutes in local and foreign jurisdictions, current and former owners and operators of contaminated land are strictly liable for the investigation and remediation of the land and for natural resource damages that may result from releases of hazardous substances at or from the property. Liability under CERCLA and analogous laws is strict, unlimited, joint, several, retroactive, may be imposed regardless of fault and may relate to historical activities or contamination not caused by the current owner or operator. It is possible that facilities that we acquire or have acquired may expose us to environmental liabilities associated with historical site conditions that have not yet been discovered.

In addition to the federal environmental laws that govern our operations, various states have been delegated certain authority under the aforementioned federal statutes as well as having authority over these matters under state laws. Many state and local governments have adopted environmental and employee safety and health laws and regulations, some of which are similar to federal requirements.

A number of our operations involve, in varying degrees, the handling, manufacturing, use or sale of substances that are or could be classified as toxic or hazardous materials within the meaning of applicable laws. Consequently, some risk of environmental harm is inherent in our operations and products, as it is with other companies engaged in similar businesses. For additional information about environmental matters, see note 12 to our audited financial statements beginning on page F-1 of this report.

We file or furnish annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other documents with or to the SEC. The public can obtain any documents that we file with or furnish to the SEC at www.sec.gov.

You may also access our press releases, financial information and reports filed with or furnished to the SEC through our own website at www.avantorsciences.com. Copies of any documents on our website may be obtained free of charge, and reports filed with or furnished to the SEC will be available as soon as reasonably practicable after they are filed with or furnished to the SEC. The information found on our website is not part of this or any other report filed with or furnished to the SEC.

Any significant disruptions to the operations of our manufacturing or distribution centers or logistics providers for any reason, including labor relations issues, power interruptions, severe weather, destruction or damage or other circumstances beyond our control could have a significant impact on our operating results, including an increase to our operating expenses without coverage or compensation, or seriously harm our ability to fulfill our customers’ orders or deliver products on a timely basis, or both. We must also maintain sufficient production capacity to meet anticipated customer demand, which carries fixed costs that we may not be able to offset if orders slow, which would adversely affect our operating margins. If we are unable to manufacture our products consistently, in sufficient quantities, and on a timely basis, our net sales, gross margins and our other operating results will be materially and adversely affected. In addition, we have experienced problems with, or delays in, our production, shipping and logistics capabilities that have resulted in delays in our ability to ship finished products, and there can be no assurance that we will not encounter such problems in the future. Significant delays in our manufacturing, shipping or logistics processes could damage our customer relationships, cause disruption to our customers and adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results.

We have experienced challenges in sourcing certain products and raw materials as a result of global supply chain disruptions and have experienced inflationary pressures across all of our cost categories. While we have implemented pricing and productivity measures to combat these pressures, they may continue to adversely impact our results.

We face competition across our products and the markets in which we operate, both domestically and internationally. Competition is driven by proprietary technologies and know-how, capabilities, consistency of operational performance, quality, supply chain control, price, value and speed. Our competitors range from regional companies, which may be able to more quickly respond to customers’ needs because of geographic proximity, to large multinational companies, which may have greater financial, marketing, operational and research and development resources than we do, allowing for a more rapid response with new, alternative or emerging technologies.

In addition, consolidation trends in the biopharma and healthcare industries have served to create fewer customer accounts and to concentrate purchasing decisions for some customers, resulting in increased pricing pressures. New competitors in low-cost manufacturing locations, particularly developing markets, may create increased pricing and competitive pressures and impede our goal to grow in those markets. Failure to anticipate and respond to competitors’ actions may adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.

We have announced a transition to a new operating model consisting of two complementary business segments, the Laboratory Solutions segment and the Bioscience Production segment, effective January 1, 2024, and plan to continue expanding our commercial sales operations and scope and complexity of our business both domestically and internationally, while maintaining our commercial operations and administrative activities.

In conjunction with our new operating model, we have also launched a cost optimization initiative. Our ability to manage our business and conduct our global operations while also pursuing our strategies for improving growth and optimizing costs requires considerable management attention and resources and is subject to the challenges of supporting a rapidly growing business in an environment of multiple languages, cultures and customs, legal and regulatory systems, alternative dispute systems and commercial markets. Our failure to implement these strategies in a cost-effective and timely manner could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

As part of our business strategy, we intend to continue to review, pursue and complete selective acquisition opportunities. There can be no assurances that we will be able to complete suitable acquisitions for a variety of reasons, including the identification of, and competition for, acquisition targets, the need for regulatory approvals, the inability of the parties to agree to the structure or purchase price of the transaction and the inability to finance the transaction on commercially acceptable terms. In addition, any completed acquisition will subject us to a variety of other risks, including: (i) potential adverse effects on our business relationships with existing or future suppliers and other business partners (in particular, to the extent we consummate acquisitions that vertically integrate portions of our business); (ii) the assumption of substantial actual or contingent liabilities, known or unknown, including environmental liabilities; (iii) failure to meet expectations of future financial performance; (iv) delays or reductions in realizing expected synergies; (v) substantial unanticipated costs or other problems associated with acquired businesses or devoting time and capital to investigate a potential acquisition that is not completed; (vi) failure to achieve intended objectives for a transaction; (vii) failure to retain key personnel, customers and suppliers of the acquired business; and (viii) adverse impacts resulting from impairment charges on goodwill, other intangible assets and tangible assets. These factors related to our acquisition strategy, among others, could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Many of the customers we serve have experienced, and are expected to continue to experience, significant industry-related changes, including reductions in governmental payments for biopharmaceutical products, expirations of significant patents, adverse changes in legislation or regulations regarding the delivery or pricing of general healthcare services or mandated benefits, and increased requirements on quality. General industry changes include:

•development of large and sophisticated group purchasing organizations and on-line auction sites that increase competition for, and reduce spending on, laboratory products;

•consolidation of biopharmaceutical companies resulting in a rationalization of research expenditures;

•increased regulatory scrutiny over drug production requiring safer raw materials;

•customers’ purchasing the products that we supply directly from our suppliers; and

•significant reductions in development and production activities.

Some of our customers have implemented, or may in the future implement, certain measures described above in an effort to control and reduce costs. The ability of our customers to develop new products to replace sales decreases attributable to expirations of significant patents, along with the impact of other past or potential future changes in the industries we serve, may result in our customers significantly reducing their purchases of products from us or the prices they are willing to pay for those products. While we believe we will be able to adapt our business to maintain existing customer relationships and develop new customer relationships, if we are unsuccessful or untimely in these efforts, our results of operations may suffer.

The high-purity materials and customized solutions we offer are highly exacting and complex due to demanding customer specifications and stringent regulatory and industry requirements. Our operating results depend on our ability to execute and, when necessary, improve our global quality control systems, including our ability to effectively train and maintain our employees with respect to quality control. A failure of our global quality control systems could result in problems with facility operations or preparation or provision of defective or non-compliant products. Nearly all of our products are subsequently incorporated into products sold to end users by our customers, and we have no control over the manufacture and production of such products.

Our success depends on our customers’ confidence that we can provide reliable, high-quality products. We believe that customers in our target markets are likely to be particularly sensitive to product defects and errors. Our reputation and the public image of our products and technologies may be impaired if our products fail to perform as expected or fail to meet applicable quality criteria, specifications or performance standards. If our products experience, or are perceived to experience, a material defect or error, this could result in loss or delay of net sales, damaged reputation, diversion of development resources, and increased insurance or warranty costs, any of which could harm our business.

Our operating results could be negatively affected by the loss of revenue from a significant number of our customers, including direct distributors and end users. Though we often include pricing and volume incentives in our contracts, our customers are generally not obligated to purchase any fixed quantities of products, and they may stop placing orders with us at any time. If we experience a significant reduction in customer orders, increased order deferrals, our sales could decline, and our operating results may not meet our expectations. In addition, if customers order our products, but fail to pay on time or at all, our liquidity and operating results could be adversely affected.

Our contracts generally do not contain minimum purchase requirements, and we sell primarily on a purchase order basis. Therefore, our sales are subject to changes in demand from our customers, and these changes have been material in the past. The level and timing of orders placed by our customers vary for a number of reasons, including individual customer strategies, the introduction of new technologies, the desire of our clients to reduce their exposure to any single supplier and general economic conditions. If we are unable to anticipate and respond to the demands of our customers, we may lose customers because we have an inadequate supply of raw materials with which to manufacture our products or insufficient capacity in our sites. Alternatively, we may have excess inventory or excess capacity. Either of these factors may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position and operating results.

We have global operations and derive a substantial portion of our net sales from customers outside of the United States. Accordingly, our international operations or those of our international customers could be substantially affected by a number of risks arising from operating an international business, including: (i) limitations on repatriation of earnings; (ii) taxes on imports; (iii) the possibility that unfriendly nations or groups could boycott our products; (iv) general economic and political conditions in the markets where we operate, including actual or anticipated military or political conflicts, such as the Ukraine/Russia or Israel/Hamas conflicts; (v) foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations; (vi) potential changes in diplomatic and trade relationships; (vii) a global health crisis of unknown duration, such as the COVID-19 pandemic; (viii) potential increased costs associated with overlapping tax structures; (ix) potential increased reliance on third parties within less developed markets; (x) potential trade restrictions, tariffs and exchange controls; (xi) more limited protection for intellectual property rights in some countries; (xii) difficulties and costs associated with staffing and managing foreign operations; (xiii) difficulties in complying with a wide variety of foreign laws and regulations and unexpected changes thereto; (xiv) expanded enforcement of laws related to data protection and personal privacy; (xv) the risk that certain governments may adopt regulations or take other actions that would have a direct adverse impact on our business and market opportunities, including nationalization of private enterprise; (xvi) violations of anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws, such as the FCPA; (xvii) violations of economic sanctions laws, such as the regulations enforced by OFAC; (xviii) longer accounts receivable cycles in certain foreign countries, whether due to cultural differences, exchange rate fluctuation or other factors; (xix) the credit risk of local customers and distributors; (xx) limitations on our ability to enforce legal rights and remedies with third parties or partners outside of the United States; (xxi) import and export licensing requirements and other restrictions, such as those imposed by OFAC, BIS, DDTC and comparable regulatory agencies and policies of foreign governments; and (xxii) changes to our distribution networks.

A substantial amount of our revenues is derived from international operations, and we anticipate that a significant portion of our sales will continue to come from outside of the United States in the future. The revenues we report with respect to our operations outside of the United States may be adversely affected by fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates.

Further, we have a substantial amount of Euro denominated indebtedness. Fluctuations in the exchange rate between U.S. dollars and Euros may have a material adverse effect on our ability to repay such indebtedness. See Item 7A. “Quantitative and qualitative disclosures about market risk.”

Our businesses rely on sophisticated information systems: (i) to obtain, rapidly process, analyze, and manage data to facilitate the purchase and distribution of thousands of inventory items from numerous distribution centers; (ii) to receive, process, and ship orders on a timely basis; (iii) to account for other product and service transactions with customers; (iv) to manage the accurate billing and collections for thousands of customers; and (v) to process payments to suppliers. We continue to make substantial investments in data centers and information systems. To the extent our information systems are not successfully implemented or fail, or there are data center interruptions or outages, our business and results of operations may be adversely affected. Our business and results of operations may also be adversely affected if a third-party service provider does not perform satisfactorily, or if the information systems are interrupted or damaged by unforeseen events, including due to the actions or inactions of third parties.

Like other companies, the systems and networks we maintain and third-party systems and networks we use have in the past been, and will likely in the future be, subject to or targets of unauthorized or fraudulent access, including physical or electronic break-ins or unauthorized tampering, as well as attempted cyber and other security threats and other attacks such as “denial of service” attacks, phishing, untargeted but sophisticated and automated attacks, ransomware, and other disruptive software. For example, as artificial intelligence (“AI”) continues to evolve, cyber-attackers could also use AI to develop malicious code and sophisticated phishing attempts. We are also exposed to similar risks resulting from cyber-attacks that are experienced by our third-party service providers. Security breaches can also occur as a result of intentional or inadvertent actions by our employees, third-party service providers or their personnel or other parties. A failure, interruption, or breach of our systems, or those of our third-party service providers, as a result of cyber-attacks or information security breaches, could disrupt our business, result in the disclosure or misuse of confidential or proprietary information or personal data, damage our reputation, cause loss of customers or revenue, increase our costs, result in litigation and/or regulatory action, and/or cause other losses, any of which may have a material adverse impact on our business operations and our financial position or results of operations. Although we believe that we have robust information security procedures, controls and other safeguards in place, as cyber threats continue to evolve, we will be required to expend additional resources to continue to enhance our information security measures and/or to investigate and remediate information security vulnerabilities.

Given the nature of our business, we collect and store confidential information that customers provide in order to, among other things, purchase products and services and register on our website.

We are required to comply with increasingly complex and changing data privacy regulations both in the United States and beyond that regulate the collection, use, sharing, and transfer of personal data. Many of these regulations also grant rights to individuals. Many foreign data privacy regulations (including GDPR in the European Union) and certain state laws and regulations (including California’s CPRA) impose requirements beyond those enacted under federal law including, in some instances, private rights of action. For example, the EU GDPR imposes more stringent data protection requirements, including a broader scope of protected data, restrictions on cross-border transfers of personal data and more onerous breach reporting requirements, and greater penalties for non-compliance than the federal data protection laws. Other states and countries continue to enact similar legislation. We are also required to comply with expanding and increasingly complex privacy and data protection regulations in the United States and abroad with respect to reporting adverse events and additional requirements for avoiding or responding to an adverse event. We also have contractual obligations to our customers related to the protection of personal data and compliance with privacy laws.

While we have taken various measures and made significant efforts and investment and designed our policies, processes and systems to be robust, a failure, or perceived failure, by us to comply with any applicable regulatory requirements or orders, including but not limited to privacy, data protection, information security, or consumer protection-related privacy laws and regulations, in one or more jurisdictions within the United States, the EU or elsewhere, could result in proceedings or actions against us by governmental entities or individuals; subject us to significant fines, penalties, and/or judgments; require us to change our business practices; limit access to our products and services in certain countries, incur substantial costs (even if we ultimately prevail) or otherwise adversely affect our business.

We rely on a variety of intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, to protect our proprietary technology and products. We place considerable emphasis on obtaining patent or maintaining trade secret protection for significant new technologies, products and processes because of the length of time and expense associated with bringing new products and processes through development and to the market.

We may need to spend significant resources monitoring and enforcing our intellectual property rights and we may not be able to prove infringement by third parties. Our competitive position may be harmed if we cannot enforce our intellectual property rights. In some circumstances, we may choose to not pursue enforcement for business reasons. In addition, competitors might avoid infringement by designing around our intellectual property rights or by developing non-infringing competing technologies. Intellectual property rights and our ability to enforce them may be unavailable or limited in some countries, which could make it easier for competitors to capture market share and could result in lost revenues.

Our brands, particularly our J.T.Baker, NuSil, VWR and Masterflex brands, are valuable assets. Therefore, we actively manage our trademark portfolio, including by maintaining registrations for long-standing trademarks and applying to obtain trademark registrations for new brands. We also police our trademark portfolio against infringement. Our efforts to protect and defend our trademarks may fall short or be unsuccessful against competitors or other third parties for a variety of reasons. To the extent that third parties or distributors sell products that are counterfeit versions of our branded products, our customers could inadvertently purchase products that are inferior. This could cause our customers to refrain from purchasing our brands in the future and in turn could impair our brand equity and adversely affect our sales.

Our business involves risk of product liability, intellectual property claims and other claims in the ordinary course of business arising from the products that we source from various manufacturers or produce ourselves. Furthermore, there may be product liability risks that are unknown or which become known in the future. Substantial, complex or extended litigation on any claim could cause us to incur significant costs and distract our management. We maintain insurance policies and in some cases, our suppliers, customers and predecessors of acquired companies have indemnified us against certain claims. We cannot assure you that our insurance coverage or indemnification agreements will be available in all pending or any future cases brought against us. Accordingly, we could be subject to uninsured and unindemnified future liabilities requiring us to provide additional reserves to address such liabilities. An unfavorable result in a case for which adequate insurance or indemnification is not available could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We sell our products in industries that are characterized by significant technological changes, frequent new product and technology introductions and enhancements and evolving industry standards. As a result, our customers’ needs are rapidly evolving.

If we do not appropriately innovate and invest in new technologies, our offerings may become less desirable in the markets we serve, and our customers could move to new technologies offered by our competitors or make products themselves. Without the timely introduction of new products, services and enhancements, our offerings will likely become less competitive over time, in which case, our competitive position, net sales and operating results could suffer. Accordingly, we focus significant efforts and resources on the development and identification of new technologies, products and services that are attractive to, and gain acceptance, in the markets we serve and further broaden our offerings. To the extent we fail to timely introduce new and innovative products or services, adequately predict our customers’ needs or fail to obtain desired levels of market acceptance, our business may suffer.

Our operations depend upon our ability to obtain high-quality raw materials meeting our specifications and other requirements at reasonable prices, including various active pharmaceutical ingredients, components, compounds, excipients and other raw materials, many of which are sole-sourced due to market or customer demands. Our ability to maintain an adequate supply of such materials and components could be impacted by the availability and price of those raw materials and maintaining relationships with key suppliers.

Moreover, we are dependent upon the ability of our suppliers to provide materials and components that meet our specifications, quality standards, other applicable criteria, and delivery schedules. Our suppliers’ failure to provide expected raw materials or components that meet such criteria could adversely affect production schedules and contract profitability and negatively impact our results of operations.

We offer products from a wide range of suppliers. While there is generally more than one source of supply for most of the categories of third-party materials & consumables and equipment & instrumentation that we sell, we currently do not manufacture the majority of our products and are dependent on these suppliers for access to those products.

Our ability to sustain our gross margins has been, and will continue to be, dependent in part upon our ability to obtain favorable terms from our suppliers. These terms may change from time to time, and such changes could adversely affect our gross margins over time. In addition, our results of operations and cash flows could be adversely impacted by the acceleration of payment terms to our suppliers and/or the imposition of more restrictive credit terms and other contractual requirements.

We use chemical ingredients in the manufacture of certain of our products. Due to the nature of the manufacturing process itself, there is a risk of incurring liability for damages caused by or during the storage or manufacture of both the chemical ingredients and the finished products. The processes used in certain of our facilities typically involve large volumes of solvents and chemicals, creating the potential for fires, spills and other safety or environmental impacts. If any of these risks materialize, it could result in significant remediation and other costs, potential adverse regulatory actions and liabilities, any of which could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

In addition, the manufacturing, use, storage, and distribution of chemicals are subject to threats including terrorism. We have several high-risk chemical facilities that contain materials that could be stolen and used to make weapons.

We could also be subject to an attack on our high-risk facilities that could cause a significant number of deaths and injuries. Such an occurrence could also harm the environment, our reputation and disrupt our operations.

We continue to focus on strategies and systems, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and packaging waste, to address climate change. However, we face climate and environmental risks and the occurrence of one or more unexpected events, including fires, tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, drought, storms, sea level rise, floods, and other severe hazards or accidents in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union or in other countries or regions in which we operate could adversely affect our operations and financial performance. Extreme weather, natural disasters, power outages, or other unexpected events could result in physical damage to, and complete or partial closure of, one or more of our manufacturing or distribution centers; temporary or long-term disruption in the supply of products; and/or disruption of our ability to deliver products to customers. Increasing concern over climate change also may result in additional legal or regulatory requirements designed to reduce or mitigate the effects of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions on the environment. The effects of climate change and legal or regulatory initiatives to address climate change could have a long-term adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, we have established and publicly announced goals and commitments to reduce our carbon footprint, including targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3). If we are unable to achieve, or improperly report on our progress toward, our carbon footprint reduction goals and commitments, this may result in litigation and/or regulatory action as well as negative publicity, which could lead to the loss of business, adverse reputational impacts, diluted market valuations and challenges in attracting and retaining customers and talented employees.

Our success depends on our ability to attract, motivate and retain highly qualified individuals. Competition for senior management and other key personnel in our industry is intense, and the pool of suitable candidates is limited. The failure to attract, retain and properly motivate members of our senior management team and other key employees, or to find suitable replacements for them in the event of death, illness or their desire to pursue other professional opportunities, could have a negative effect on our operating results.

Certain of the acquisition agreements by which we have acquired companies require the former owners to indemnify us against certain liabilities related to the operation of the company before we acquired it. In most of these agreements, however, the liability of the former owners is limited and certain former owners may be unable to meet their indemnification responsibilities. We cannot assure you that these indemnification provisions will protect us fully or at all, and as a result, we may face unexpected liabilities that adversely affect our financial statements.

We face risks related to health epidemics and pandemics, including risks related to any responses thereto by the federal, state or foreign governments, as well as customers and suppliers. A pandemic could adversely affect our operations, supply chains and distribution network, and we could experience and expect prolonged unpredictable reductions in supply and demand for certain of our offerings similar to those experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as unpredictable increases in demand for certain of our offerings similar to those experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Further, it is possible that disruptions or delays in shipments of certain raw materials used in the products we manufacture and in the finished goods that we sell globally could be similar to those experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The implementation of any government-mandated vaccination or testing mandates may impact our ability to retain current employees and attract new employees. Any extended disruption in our ability to service our customers could have a negative effect on our operating results.

The U.S. Congress, foreign governments, and their agencies in non-U.S. jurisdictions where we and our affiliates do business, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”), continue to focus on issues related to the taxation of multinational corporations. As part of this focus, the OECD has introduced a framework to implement a 15% global minimum corporate tax rate. Many aspects of this minimum tax directive will be effective beginning in 2024. While it is uncertain whether the U.S. will enact legislation to adopt the minimum tax directive, certain countries in which we operate have adopted legislation and other countries are in the process of introducing legislation to implement the minimum tax directive. While we do not currently expect the minimum tax directive to have a material impact on our effective tax rate, our analysis is ongoing as the OECD continues to release additional guidance. There can be no assurance that these changes, and any further contemplated changes when finalized and adopted by countries, will not have an adverse impact on our provision for income taxes.

Due to the potential for changes to tax laws and regulations or changes to the interpretation thereof, the ambiguity of tax laws and regulations, the subjectivity of factual interpretations, the complexity of our intercompany arrangements, uncertainties regarding the geographic mix of earnings in any particular period, and other factors, our estimates of effective tax rate and income tax assets and liabilities may be incorrect and our financial statements could be adversely affected. The impact of the factors referenced in the first sentence of this paragraph may be substantially different from period-to-period.

We believe that for certain of our businesses, success in penetrating target markets depends in part on their ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with other companies. Relying on collaborative relationships is risky because, among other things, our collaborative partners may (i) not devote sufficient resources to the success of our collaborations; (ii) fail to obtain regulatory approvals necessary to continue the collaborations in a timely manner; (iii) be acquired by other companies and terminate our collaborative partnership or become insolvent; (iv) compete with us; (v) disagree with us on key details of the collaborative relationship; (vi) have insufficient capital resources; and (vii) decline to renew existing collaborations on acceptable terms. Because these and other factors may be beyond our control, the development or commercialization of our products involved in collaborative partnerships may be delayed or otherwise adversely affected. If we or any of our collaborative partners terminate a collaborative arrangement, we may be required to devote additional resources to product development and commercialization or we may need to cancel some development programs, which could adversely affect our business and financial statements.

We compete in markets in which we and our customers are subject to federal, state, local, international and transnational laws and regulations, including the operating, quality and security standards of the FDA, various state health departments, the DHHS, similar bodies of the EU and its member states and other comparable agencies around the world, and, in the future, any changes to such laws and regulations could adversely affect us. We develop, configure and market our products to meet customer needs driven by those regulations. Among other rules affecting us, we are subject to laws and regulations concerning cGMP and product safety. Our subsidiaries may be required to register for permits and/or licenses with, and may be required to comply with, the laws and regulations of the FDA, the DHHS, the DEA, foreign agencies including the EMA, and other various state health departments and/or comparable state and foreign agencies as well as certain accrediting bodies depending upon the types of operations and locations of distribution and sale of the products manufactured or services provided by those subsidiaries. Any significant change in regulations could reduce demand for our products or increase our expenses. For example, many of our products are marketed to the biopharma industry for use in discovering, developing and manufacturing drugs, or are sold as raw materials or components to drug device manufacturers or for use in the manufacture of implantable devices. Changes in the domestic or foreign regulation of drug discovery, development or manufacturing processes or medical device manufacturing processes, or adverse findings concerning any health effects associated with these products, could have an adverse effect on the demand for these products and could also result in legal liability and claims.

We are also registered with the DDTC, as a manufacturer and exporter of goods controlled by ITAR, and we are subject to strict export control and prior approval requirements related to these goods. Our failure to comply with ITAR and other export control laws and regulations, as well as economic sanctions, could result in penalties, loss, or suspension of contracts or other consequences. Any of these could adversely affect our operations and financial condition. Failure by us or by our customers to meet one or more of these various regulatory obligations could have adverse consequences in the event of material non-compliance. Compliance with relevant sanctions and export control laws could restrict our access to, and increase the cost of obtaining, certain products and at times could interrupt our supply of imported inventory or our ability to service certain customers. Conversely, compliance with these regulatory obligations may require us to incur significant expenses.

In addition, certain of our facilities are certified to ISO, including ISO 13485, ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO 22000 and/or ISO 14001. These standards are voluntary quality management system standards, the maintenance of which indicates to customers certain quality and operational norms. Customers may rely on contractual assurances that we make with respect to ISO certificates to transact business. Failure to comply with these ISO standards can lead to observations of non-compliance or even suspension of ISO or Aerospace Standard (AS) certifications or European Community (EC) Declarations of Conformity Certificates by the registrar. If we were to lose ISO or AS certifications or EC Declarations of Conformity, we could lose sales and customers to competitors or other suppliers. We are also subject to periodic inspections or audits by our customers. If these audits or inspections identify issues or the customer perceives there are issues, the customer may decide to cease purchasing products from us which could adversely affect our business.

We cannot provide assurance that our internal controls and compliance systems will always protect us from acts committed by employees, agents or business partners of ours (or of businesses we acquire or partner with) that would violate U.S. and/or non-U.S. laws, including the laws governing payments to government officials, bribery, fraud, kickbacks and false claims, pricing, sales and marketing practices, conflicts of interest, competition, export and import compliance, money laundering and data privacy. In particular, the FCPA, the U.K. Bribery Act and similar anti-bribery laws in other jurisdictions generally prohibit companies and their intermediaries from making improper payments for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business, and we operate in many parts of the world that have experienced corruption to some degree. Any such improper actions or allegations of such acts could damage our reputation and subject us to civil or criminal investigations in the United States and in other jurisdictions and related shareholder lawsuits, could lead to substantial civil and criminal, monetary and non monetary penalties and could cause us to incur significant legal and investigatory fees. In addition, the government in relevant jurisdictions may seek to hold us liable as a successor for violations committed by companies in which we invest or that we acquire. We also rely on our suppliers to adhere to our supplier standards of conduct, and material violations of such standards of conduct could occur that could have a material effect on our business, reputation and financial statements.

We sell products to government entities and, as a result, we are subject to various statutes and regulations that apply to companies doing business with the government. The laws governing government contracts differ from the laws governing private contracts and government contracts may contain pricing terms and conditions that are not applicable to private contracts. We are also subject to investigation for compliance with the regulations governing government contracts. A failure to comply with these regulations could result in suspension of these contracts, criminal, civil and administrative penalties or debarment.

We are subject to a broad range of foreign, federal, state and local environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, including those of the EPA, OSHA and equivalent local, state, and foreign regulatory agencies in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate, and we may be fined or penalized for non-compliance. In addition, contamination resulting from our current or past operations or from past uses of land that we own or operate may trigger investigation or remediation obligations, which may have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. We cannot be certain that identification of presently unidentified environmental, health and safety conditions, new regulations, more vigorous enforcement by regulatory authorities or other unanticipated events will not arise in the future and give rise to additional environmental liabilities, business interruptions, compliance costs or penalties, which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We currently incur costs and may incur additional costs related to remediation of alleged environmental damage associated with past or current waste disposal practices or other hazardous materials handling at property that we currently own or operate, or formerly owned or operated, or facilities to which we arranged for the disposal of hazardous substances. Our liabilities arising from past or future releases of, or exposures to, hazardous substances may exceed our estimates or adversely affect our financial statements and reputation and we may be subject to additional claims for cleanup or other environmental claims in the future based on our past, present or future business activities, and we may not be able to recover any costs under any of our indemnifications that we have.

For additional information regarding environmental matters, see [note 12] to the consolidated financial statements beginning on page F-1 of this report.

We are subject to the rules and regulations promulgated by a number of governmental and self-regulatory organizations, including the SEC and NYSE, as well as evolving investor expectations around environmental, social and governance practices and disclosures. These rules and regulations continue to evolve in scope and complexity, and many new requirements have been created in response to laws and directives enacted by federal, state, local and foreign governments, making compliance more difficult and uncertain. The increasing complexity and costs to comply with such evolving expectations, rules and regulations, as well as any risk of noncompliance, could adversely affect our business.

We now have and expect to continue to have a significant amount of debt. Our indebtedness could have important consequences to us including the following:

•making it more difficult for us to satisfy our debt or contractual obligations;

•exposing us to the risk of increased interest rates as certain of our borrowings, including borrowings under our senior secured credit facilities, are at variable rates of interest;

•restricting us from making strategic acquisitions or causing us to make non-strategic divestitures;

•requiring us to dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to payments on our indebtedness, which would reduce the funds available for working capital, capital expenditures, investments, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes;

•limiting our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business, future business opportunities and the industry in which we operate;

•placing us at a competitive disadvantage compared to any of our less leveraged competitors;

•increasing our vulnerability to a downturn in our business and both general and industry-specific adverse economic conditions; and

•limiting our ability to obtain additional financing.

Our credit facilities contain financial and other restrictive covenants that could limit our ability to engage in activities that may be in our long-term best interests. Our failure to comply with those covenants could result in an event of default which, if not cured or waived, could result in the acceleration of all of our debt, which could adversely affect our business, earnings and financial condition.

We and our subsidiaries may be able to incur significant additional indebtedness in the future. Although our credit agreement and indentures contain restrictions on the incurrence of additional indebtedness, these restrictions are subject to a number of qualifications and exceptions, and the additional indebtedness incurred in compliance with these restrictions could be substantial. If new debt is added to our current debt levels, the related risks that we now face could intensify.

We have no current plans to pay cash dividends on our common stock. The declaration, amount and payment of any future dividends on our common stock will be at the sole discretion of our Board of Directors. Our Board of Directors may take into account general and economic conditions, our financial condition and results of operations, our available cash and current and anticipated cash needs, capital requirements, contractual, legal, tax and regulatory restrictions and implications on the payment of dividends by us to our stockholders or by our subsidiaries to us, including restrictions under our credit agreement and other indebtedness we may incur, and such other factors as our Board of Directors may deem relevant.

As a result, you may not receive any return on an investment in our common stock unless you sell our common stock for a price greater than your purchase price.

Effective internal controls are necessary for us to provide reliable and accurate financial statements and to effectively prevent fraud. We devote significant resources and time to comply with the internal control over financial reporting requirements of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 and continue to enhance our controls. However, we cannot be certain that we will be able to prevent future significant deficiencies or material weaknesses. Inadequate internal controls could cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information, which could have a negative effect on investor confidence in our financial statements, the trading price of our stock and our access to capital.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that unless we consent to the selection of an alternative forum, the state or federal courts (as appropriate) located within the State of Delaware shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for any (i) derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of our company, (ii) action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer, or other employee or stockholder of our company to us or our stockholders, creditors or other constituents, (iii) action against us or any of our directors or officers involving a claim or defense arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law or our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or our amended and restated bylaws, (iv) action against us or any director or officer of the Company involving a claim or defense implicating the internal affairs doctrine, or (v) action against us or any of our directors or officers involving a claim or defense arising pursuant to the Exchange Act or the Securities Act.

It is possible that these exclusive forum provisions may be challenged in court and may be deemed unenforceable in whole or in part. Our exclusive forum provision shall not relieve the company of its duties to comply with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder, and our stockholders will not be deemed to have waived our compliance with these laws, rules and regulations.

Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to the forum provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. This choice of forum provision may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or any of our directors, officers, other employees or stockholders which may discourage lawsuits with respect to such claims. Alternatively, if a court were to find the choice of forum provision contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions, which could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.

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We rely on sophisticated information systems to obtain, rapidly process, analyze, and manage data in order to effectively operate our business. We are committed to protecting our business information, intellectual property, customer, supplier and employee data and information systems from cybersecurity risks and maintain an active cybersecurity risk management and strategy program, which is integrated in our enterprise risk management program.

We maintain enterprise-wide information security policies, processes and standards that set the requirements around acceptable use of information systems and data, risk assessment and management, identity and access management, data security, security operations, security incident response and threat and vulnerability management. We also perform formal risk assessment activities annually, aligned to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-171 Cybersecurity Framework, as its program controls are designed to protect and maintain confidentiality, integrity, and continued availability of our data and information systems. Our team of information security professionals monitors our information systems for cybersecurity threats, breaches, intrusions and other weaknesses, responds to cybersecurity incidents, develops and implements plans to mitigate cybersecurity threats and facilitates training for our employees.

We also engage consultants and other third-party advisors to conduct independent assessments of our cybersecurity readiness and control effectiveness. In collaboration with external cybersecurity firms, we seek to gain insights into emerging threats and vulnerabilities, industry trends, and leading practices to inform our cybersecurity response, risk remediation and resilience capabilities, including by working with an external retained incident response team, receiving third-party threat intelligence, participating in incident tabletops, and performing assessments and controls testing on our enterprise environment.

Our program includes procedures to oversee and identify cybersecurity risks and threats of our third-party service providers, which include third-party evaluations performed by our team of information security professionals, review of independent assessment documentation, and continuous monitoring of third-party independent posture scoring. We also include security and data protection provisions in our contractual arrangements with third-party service providers where applicable. Additionally, we have purchased a cybersecurity risk insurance policy that would reduce the costs associated with a covered cybersecurity incident if it occurred.

Although no cybersecurity incident during the year ended December 31, 2023 resulted in an interruption of our operations, known losses of critical data, or otherwise had a material impact on Avantor’s strategy, financial condition or results of operations, the scope and impact of any future incident cannot be predicted. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors” for more information on how material cybersecurity attacks may impact our business.

Management plays a critical role in assessing and managing material risks from cybersecurity threats. Our Vice President of Information Security & Risk Management and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), in coordination with our Chief Information Officer, leads a team of information security professionals and manages our cybersecurity risk management program and activities. This involves monitoring our information systems for cybersecurity threats, reviewing cybersecurity incidents, analyzing emerging threats, and the development and implementation of risk mitigation strategies. Our CISO has over 25 years of experience working in the information technology and services industry who is a subject matter expert in a variety of areas including information security, and IT risk.

Our CISO reports quarterly and more regularly, as needed, to our executive leadership team composed of our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Information Officer on cybersecurity matters, providing the leadership team with updates on enterprise risks, cybersecurity incidents, the status of ongoing initiatives, key metrics, and additional cybersecurity topics. Our information technology leaders also meet regularly to discuss the progress of ongoing program initiatives, cybersecurity priorities, identified risks and metrics. We have also developed a cross functional disclosure working group to assess elevated cybersecurity incidents and, as appropriate, report on such events to Avantor’s standing Disclosure Committee to conclude on the materiality of the incident and any need for regulatory reporting.

The Board of Directors exercises direct oversight of strategic risks to the Company. The Board has delegated the responsibility for cybersecurity oversight to the Audit and Finance Committee. The Audit and Finance Committee’s responsibilities include reviewing and discussing with management the strategies, process and controls pertaining to the management of Avantor’s information technology operations, including cybersecurity risks and information security. The CISO and Chief Information Officer report to the Audit and Finance Committee annually and more frequently, as needed, on cybersecurity matters, including the cybersecurity threat landscape, key metrics demonstrating the overall management of our cybersecurity risk and risk management program, related key initiatives, enterprise program framework alignment, annual risk mitigation strategy, and review of cybersecurity incidents. Our Board is committed to maintaining a well-informed and cybersecurity-aware posture, regularly engaging through regular and requested updates on our strategy and evolving threat landscape.

As of December 31, 2023, the Company had facilities in over 30 countries, including approximately 200 significant administrative, sales, research and development, manufacturing and distribution facilities. Over 65 of these facilities are located in the United States in over 20 states and over 135 are located outside the United States, primarily in Europe and to a lesser extent in AMEA.

Refer to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report for additional information with respect to the Company’s lease commitments.

For information regarding legal proceedings and matters, see note 12 to our consolidated financial statements beginning on page F-1 of this report, which information is incorporated into this item by reference.

The following table sets forth certain information regarding our executive officers at February 9, 2024:

			Age						Position
Michael Stubblefield			51						Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
R. Brent Jones			54						Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Benoit Gourdier			57						Executive Vice President, Bioscience Production
Christophe Couturier			58						Executive Vice President, AMEA
Brittany Hankamer			53						Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Claudius Sokenu			56						Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary
James Bramwell			57						Executive Vice President, Sales and Customer Excellence
Kitty Sahin			54						Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development
Randy Stone			57						Executive Vice President, Laboratory Solutions

Unless indicated to the contrary, the business experience summaries provided below describe positions held by the named individuals during the last five years.

Michael Stubblefield became our President and Chief Executive Officer in 2014. In addition, Mr. Stubblefield also serves as a Director. Prior to joining Avantor, Mr. Stubblefield was a Senior Expert for the Chemicals Practice of McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm, from 2013 to 2014.

R. Brent Jones is our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, a position he has held since August 2023. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Jones served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of LifeScan Global Corporation, a medical devices company, from March 2023 until July 2023 and as LifeScan’s Chief Financial Officer from February 2020 until March 2023. Prior to that, Mr. Jones served as Chief Financial Officer of Klöckner Pentaplast Group, a plastics packaging manufacturer, from April 2016 until August 2018.

Benoit Gourdier is our Executive Vice President, Bioscience Production, a position he has held since January 2024. Prior to his current role, Mr. Gourdier served as Executive Vice President, Biopharma Production from October 2023 to December 2023. Prior to joining Avantor, Mr. Gourdier spent 23 years at Merck KGaA, a chemical company, where he served in a number of leadership positions including, most recently, as Senior Vice President and General Manager, BioReliance Contract Testing Services at Millipore Sigma from September 2017 to September 2023.

Christophe Couturier is our Executive Vice President, AMEA, a position he has held since April 2021. Prior to his current role, Mr. Couturier served as Executive Vice President, Services, from April 2018 to April 2021. Prior to joining Avantor, Mr. Couturier served as Chief Executive Officer of Salicornia, LLC, a personal consulting company, from September 2017 to April 2018.

Brittany Hankamer is our Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, a position she has held since August 2023. Prior to assuming her current position, Ms. Hankamer served as Avantor’s Senior Vice President of Talent and People Operations from May 2021 to August 2023 and as Vice President, Human Resources from September 2019 to May 2021. Prior to joining Avantor, Ms. Hankamer was Vice President of Human Resources at Conquest Completion Services, LLC from May 2018 to September 2019.

Claudius Sokenu is our Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary, a position he has held since July 2023. Prior to joining Avantor, Mr. Sokenu was General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Administrative Officer at Unisys, a technology company, from May 2022 to June 2023, Senior Vice President and Global Deputy General Counsel at Cognizant, an information technology services and consulting company, from March 2020 to April 2022 and Deputy General Counsel, Global Head of Litigation, Investigations and Ethics & Compliance from May 2017 to October 2018. Previously, he was a partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP and Arnold & Porter LLP.

James Bramwell is our Executive Vice President, Sales and Customer Excellence, a position he has held since January 2024. Prior to his current role, he served as Avantor’s Executive Vice President, Americas from October 2022 to December 2023, and as Executive Vice President, Strategic Partners from November 2017 to October 2022.

Kitty Sahin is our Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, a position she has held since June 2022. Prior to joining Avantor, Ms. Sahin served as EVP, Strategy & Business Development for Novanta, a medical, life science and industrial technology company, from September 2017 to June 2022.

Randy Stone is our Executive Vice President, Laboratory Solutions, a position he has held since January 2024. Prior to his current role, Mr. Stone served as Executive Vice President, Proprietary Research Products & Materials from April 2023 to December 2023. Mr. Stone joined Avantor after 16 years at DuPont, a science company, where he served in a number of leadership roles including, most recently as President, Mobility and Materials from March 2016 to November 2022.

Our common stock is listed on the NYSE under the symbol “AVTR.”

On February 9, 2024, we had 5 holders of record of our common stock. This does not include holdings in street or nominee names.

We currently do not expect to pay any dividends on our common stock. Additionally, our subsidiaries are party to certain debt agreements that would restrict their ability to fund future dividend payments to our common stockholders. For more information, see note 24 to our consolidated financial statements beginning on page F-1 of this report.

The following graph compares the return on a $100 investment in our common stock made on May 17, 2019, the day we first began trading on the NYSE, with a $100 investment also made on May 17, 2019 in the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Health Care Index. The S&P 500 Index is a broad equity market index of companies having market capitalization similar to ours. The S&P 500 Health Care Index is an industry-specific equity market index that we believe closely aligns to us based on the following: (i) the index follows companies of a similar size to us in terms of net sales and market capitalization; (ii) the index includes health care distributors, the segment of the Global Industry Classification Standard that we believe most closely aligns to us; and (iii) the index includes companies in the biopharma and healthcare industries, two of our primary customer groups that together comprise over half of our net sales.

The information in this section is not “soliciting material,” is not deemed “filed” with the SEC and is not to be incorporated by reference in any of our filings under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, whether made before or after the date of this report, except to the extent that we specifically incorporate such information by reference. The stock performance shown below is not necessarily indicative of future performance.

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, we recorded net sales of $6,967.2 million, net income of $321.1 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $1,309.1 million. Net sales declined 7.3% which included 7.8% organic decrease compared to the same period in 2022. See “Reconciliations of non-GAAP measures” for a reconciliation of net income to Adjusted EBITDA and “Results of operations” for a reconciliation of net sales growth to organic net sales growth.

The following trends have affected our recent operating results, and they may also continue to affect our performance and financial condition in future periods.

Customer demand and required inventory levels continue to normalize in the transition from the COVID-19 pandemic. The transition from the outbreak continued to impact the full year results of our three segments, as described further in the “Results of operations” section.

We completed the acquisitions of Masterflex, Ritter, and RIM Bio in 2021. Masterflex is a leading global manufacturer of peristaltic pumps and aseptic single-use fluid transfer technologies. Ritter is focused on supplying high-quality liquid handling consumables used in a variety of molecular screening and diagnostic applications and as part of drug discovery and clinical trial testing in pharma and biotech applications and cartridges for sealants, adhesives and inks that are used in a variety of industrial applications. RIM Bio provides a complete range of single-use 2D bags, 3D bags, tank liners, bag assemblies and multi-bag manifolds used in the manufacturing of biologics including monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), vaccines, cell and gene therapies, and recombinant proteins.

Ritter’s revenues declined in 2023 compared to prior expectations, primarily from reduced customer demand for medical fluid handling tips due to a decrease in COVID-19 testing. We are taking measures to replace these revenues; however, due to these sustained declines, we performed an impairment test of the Ritter asset group, which resulted in a fair value that was lower than its carrying value. As a result, we recorded impairment charges of $106.4 million on Ritter’s finite-lived intangible assets and $54.4 million on Ritter’s property, plant & equipment in the second quarter of 2023 in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.

We have experienced inventory fluctuations and build up at customers as a result of global supply chain disruptions and have experienced inflationary pressures across all of our cost categories. While we have implemented pricing and productivity measures to combat these pressures, they may continue to adversely impact our results.

In June 2023, we amended the revolving credit facility to increase its funding limit up to $975.0 million and extended the term to June 29, 2028. We capitalized $2.3 million of fees in connection with this transaction. We also amended our U.S. dollar term loan B-5 from LIBOR based variable-rate rate interest to SOFR based variable-rate rate interest. We made prepayments of $680.0 million and $21.5 million on U.S. dollar term loan B-5 and Euro term loan B-4, which reduced our variable-rate debt. To further protect against rising interest rates, in April 2023, we entered into an interest rate swap to convert payments on $100.0 million of our U.S. dollar debt from SOFR based variable rate interest to fixed rate interest.

In 2022, we amended our receivables facility to increase its funding limit up to $400.0 million and extended the term to October 27, 2025. Also, we fully repaid U.S. dollar term loan B-4, Euro term loan B-3 and made a total prepayment of $555.0 million on U.S. dollar term loan B-5 which resulted in reduction of our annual cost of interest. To protect against rising interest rates, we entered into an interest rate swap and a cross currency swap that collectively convert interest payments on $750.0 million of our U.S. dollar term loan from U.S. dollar variable-rate to a Euro fixed-rate.

We are engaging with our customers early in their product development cycles to advance their programs from research and discovery through development and commercialization. These projects include enhancing product purity and performance characteristics, improving product packaging and streamlining workflows. We are also developing new products in emerging areas of science such as cell and gene therapy.

Our consolidated results of operations are comprised of many different functional currencies that translate into our U.S. dollar reporting currency. The movement of the U.S. dollar against those functional currencies, particularly the Euro, has caused significant variability in our results and may continue to do so in the future. See Item 7A, “Quantitative and qualitative disclosures about market risk.”

To evaluate our performance, we monitor a number of key indicators. As appropriate, we supplement our results of operations determined in accordance with GAAP with certain non-GAAP measures that we believe are useful to investors, creditors and others in assessing our performance. These measurements should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for reported GAAP results because they may include or exclude certain items as compared to similar GAAP-based measurements, and such measurements may not be comparable to similarly-titled measurements reported by other companies. Rather, these measurements should be considered as an additional way of viewing aspects of our operations that provide a more complete understanding of our business.

The key indicators that we monitor are as follows:

•Net sales, gross margin, operating income and net income or loss. These measures are discussed in the section entitled “Results of operations”;

•Organic net sales growth (decline), which is a non-GAAP measure discussed in the section entitled “Results of operations.” Organic net sales growth (decline) eliminates from our reported net sales change the impacts of earnings from any acquired or disposed businesses and changes in foreign currency exchange rates. We believe that this measurement is useful to investors as a way to measure and evaluate our underlying commercial operating performance consistently across our segments and the periods presented. This measurement is used by our management for the same reason. Reconciliations to the change in reported net sales, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, are included in the section entitled “Results of operations”;

•Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA margin, which are non-GAAP measures discussed in the section entitled “Results of operations.” Adjusted EBITDA is used by investors to measure and evaluate our operating performance exclusive of interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation, amortization and certain other adjustments. Adjusted EBITDA margin is Adjusted EBITDA divided by net sales as determined under GAAP. We believe that these measurements are useful to investors as a way to analyze the underlying trends in our business consistently across the periods presented. A reconciliation of net income or loss, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, to Adjusted EBITDA is included in the section entitled “Reconciliations of non-GAAP measures”;

•Cash flows from operating activities, which is discussed in the section entitled “Liquidity and capital resources—Historical cash flows”; and

•Free cash flow, which is a non-GAAP measure, is equal to our cash flow from operating activities, plus acquisition-related costs paid in the period, less capital expenditures. We believe that this measurement is useful to investors as it provides a view on the Company’s ability to generate cash for use in financing or investing activities. This measurement is used by management for the same reason. A reconciliation of cash flows from operating activities, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, to free cash flows, is included in the section entitled “Liquidity and capital resources—Historical cash flows.”

We present results of operations in the same way that we manage our business, evaluate our performance and allocate our resources. We also provide discussion of net sales and Adjusted EBITDA by geographic segment based on customer location: the Americas, Europe and AMEA. Corporate costs are managed on a standalone basis and not allocated to segments.

Net sales decline was driven by decreases in all three regions primarily due to declines in customer demand, the impact of customer destocking, and COVID-19 related headwinds. Unfavorable product mix and inflationary factors contributed to contraction in gross margin. Softness in sales volumes along with unfavorable product mix drove Adjusted EBITDA margin contraction.

Net sales decreased $545.2 million or 7.3%, which included $41.2 million or 0.5% of favorable foreign currency translation impact. Organic net sales decreased by $586.4 million or 7.8% (decline of 5.2% when excluding the impact of sales of COVID-19-related products in both periods, referred to herein as COVID-19 related headwinds or tailwinds).

In the Americas, net sales decreased $399.6 million or 8.9%. There was no material foreign currency translation impact to net sales. Organic net sales decreased by $397.4 million or 8.9% (decline of 6.1% excluding COVID-19 headwinds). Additional information on organic net sales by end market (with approximate percentage of total organic net sales for the region) is as follows:

•Biopharma (55%) — Sales declined double-digits, primarily due to the roll-off of COVID-19 revenues for vaccines and diagnostic testing, in addition to reduced customer demand and destocking of lab products and single-use solutions.

•Healthcare (10%) — Sales declined low single-digits as growth in our medical grade silicone business was offset by declines in COVID-19 related offerings for diagnostic testing.

•Education and government (15%) — Sales increased low single-digits primarily due to continued strong growth to higher education customers, partially offset by weaker demand from K-12 and government customers.

•Advanced technologies & applied materials (20%) — Sales decreased double-digits driven by softness in the demand for our semiconductor and electronic device offerings.

In Europe, net sales decreased $96.1 million or 3.8%, which included $50.5 million or 2.0% of favorable foreign currency translation impact. Organic net sales decreased $146.6 million or 5.8% (decline of 3.9% excluding COVID-19 headwinds). Additional information on organic net sales by end market (with approximate percentage of total organic net sales for the region) is as follows:

•Biopharma (50%) — Sales declined high single-digits, primarily due to the roll-off of COVID-19 revenues for vaccines in addition to reduced customer demand and destocking of lab consumables and single-use solutions.

•Healthcare (10%) —Sales declined double-digits primarily due to reduced customer demand and destocking of lab consumables along with the roll-off of COVID-19 revenues for diagnostic testing.

•Education & government (10%) —Sales declined low single-digits driven by COVID-19 related headwinds in the government end market.

▪Advanced technologies & applied materials (30%) — We experienced low single-digit growth driven by increased sales of proprietary materials and consumables, and equipment and instrumentation.

In AMEA, net sales decreased $49.5 million or 9.4%, which included $7.1 million or 1.3% of unfavorable foreign currency translation impact. Organic net sales decreased $42.4 million or 8.1% (decline of 4.2% excluding COVID-19 headwinds). Additional information on organic net sales by end market (with approximate percentage of total organic net sales for the region) is as follows:

•Biopharma (45%) — Sales increased low single-digits due to increased demand for our bioprocessing customers.

•Advanced technologies & applied materials (50%) — Sales declined double-digits primarily driven by softness in our proprietary offerings into the semiconductor industry.

Gross margin decreased (70) basis points resulting primarily from unfavorable product mix and the impact of inflationary pressures, partially offset by lower distribution costs.

Operating income decreased primarily from lower gross profit, as previously discussed, as well as higher operating expenses driven by asset impairment charges recorded in the second quarter of 2023, accrual of a long-term retention incentive, inflation and investments made to grow the business, partially offset by lower accruals related to incentive compensation.

Net income decreased primarily due to lower operating income, as previously discussed, as well as higher interest expense from rising interest rates on our variable-rate term loans, partially offset by lower income tax expense due to lower income before income taxes.

For reconciliations of Adjusted EBITDA to net income, see “Reconciliations of non-GAAP measures.”

Adjusted EBITDA decreased $261.6 million or 16.7%, which included a favorable foreign currency translation impact of $5.3 million or 0.3%. The remaining decrease was $266.9 million or 17.0%.

In the Americas, Adjusted EBITDA decreased $164.7 million or 15.2%. There was no material foreign currency translation impact to Adjusted EBITDA. The decrease was driven by lower sales volumes and unfavorable product mix, partially offset by reduced operating expenses and lower distribution costs.

In Europe, Adjusted EBITDA declined $74.6 million or 14.2%, or 15.7% when adjusted for favorable foreign currency translation impact. The decrease was driven by lower sales volume and unfavorable product mix, partially offset by reduced operating expenses, distribution costs and favorable manufacturing variances.

In AMEA, Adjusted EBITDA declined $16.2 million or 11.4%, or 10.4% when adjusted for unfavorable foreign currency translation impact. The decrease was driven by lower sales volume and inflationary pressures, partially offset by lower distribution costs.

In Corporate, Adjusted EBITDA declined $6.1 million or 3.5%, or 3.3% when adjusted for unfavorable foreign currency translation impact. The decrease was driven by investments in our workforce made over the course of 2023.

A discussion and analysis covering the year ended December 31, 2021 is included in our 2022 10-K.

The following table presents the reconciliation of net income or loss to Adjusted EBITDA:

(in millions)			Year ended December 31,
			2023						2022						2021
Net income			$	321.1					$	686.5					$	572.6
Interest expense, net			284.8						265.8						217.4
Income tax expense			89.4						164.6						180.4
Depreciation and amortization			402.3						405.5						379.2
Loss on extinguishment of debt			6.9						12.5						12.4
Net foreign currency (gain) loss from financing activities			(3.1)						7.0						1.3
Other stock-based compensation expense (benefit)			0.3						(3.3)						3.0
Acquisition-related expenses1			—						—						77.8
Integration-related expenses2			7.6						19.2						15.9
Purchase accounting adjustments3			—						9.4						6.3
Restructuring and severance charges4			26.5						3.5						5.3
Receipt of disgorgement penalty5			—						—						(13.0)
Reserve for certain legal matters6			7.1						—						—
Impairment charges7			160.8						—						—
Transformation expenses8			5.4						—						—
Adjusted EBITDA			$	1,309.1					$	1,570.7					$	1,458.6

1.Represents legal, accounting, investment banking and consulting fees incurred related to the acquisition of acquired companies.

2.Represents non-recurring direct costs incurred with third parties and the accrual of a long-term retention incentive to integrate acquired companies. These expenses represent incremental costs and are unrelated to normal operations of our business. Integration expenses are incurred over a pre-defined integration period specific to each acquisition.

3.Represents the non-cash reduction of contingent consideration related to the Ritter acquisition and the amortization of the purchase accounting adjustment to record Masterflex and Ritter inventory at fair value.

4.Reflects the incremental expenses incurred in the period related to initiatives to increase profitability and productivity. Typical costs included in this caption are employee severance, site-related exit costs, and contract termination costs.

5.As described in note 18 to our consolidated financial statements beginning on F-1 of this report.

6.Represents charges and legal costs in connection with certain litigation and other contingencies that are unrelated to our core operations and not reflective of on-going business and operating results.

7.As described in note 4 to our consolidated financial statements beginning on F-1 of this report.

8.Represents non-recurring, incremental expenses directly associated with the Company’s publicly-announced program to transform our operating model.

We fund short-term cash requirements primarily from operating cash flows, while most of our long-term financing is from indebtedness, which we use to finance transactions outside of our normal operations.

Our most significant contractual obligations are scheduled principal and interest payments for indebtedness. We also have obligations to make payments under operating leases, to purchase certain products and services and to fund defined benefit plan obligations primarily outside of the United States. In addition to contractual obligations, we use cash to fund capital expenditures and taxes. Changes in working capital may be a source or a use of cash depending on our operations during the period.

We expect to fund our short-term and long-term capital needs with cash generated by operations and availability under our credit facilities. Although we believe that these sources will provide sufficient liquidity for us to meet our long-term capital needs, our ability to fund these needs will depend to a significant extent on our future financial performance, which will be subject in part to general economic, competitive, financial, regulatory and other factors that are beyond our control.

We believe that cash generated by operations, together with available liquidity under our credit facilities, will be adequate to meet our current and expected needs for cash prior to the maturity of our debt, although no assurance can be given in this regard.

The following table presents our primary sources of liquidity:

(in millions)			December 31, 2023
			Receivables facility						Revolving credit facility						Total
Unused availability under credit facilities:
Capacity			$	335.0					$	975.0					$	1,310.0
Undrawn letters of credit outstanding			(15.4)						—						(15.4)
Outstanding borrowings			(221.0)						—						(221.0)
Unused availability			$	98.6					$	975.0					1,073.6
Cash and cash equivalents															262.9
Total liquidity															$	1,336.5

Our availability under our receivables facility depends upon maintaining a sufficient borrowing base of eligible accounts receivable. We believe that we have sufficient capital resources to meet our liquidity needs.

At December 31, 2023, $249.2 million or 95% of our cash and cash equivalents was held by our non-U.S. subsidiaries and may be subject to certain taxes upon repatriation, primarily where foreign withholding taxes apply. We ordinarily generate significant cash flows in the U.S. and deploy U.S. cash flows promptly toward debt principal repayment. Our U.S. business has significant liquidity via our undrawn working capital facilities and therefore management has been comfortable operating with minimal cash balances in the U.S.

The following table presents a summary of cash provided by (used in) various activities:

(in millions)			Year ended December 31,												Change
			2023						2022
Operating activities:
Net income			$	321.1					$	686.5					$	(365.4)
Non-cash items1			533.0						485.4						47.6
Working capital changes2			(21.3)						(161.6)						140.3
All other			37.2						(166.7)						203.9
Total			$	870.0					$	843.6					$	26.4
Investing activities:			(143.7)						(109.6)						(34.1)
Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash acquired			—						(20.2)						20.2
Capital expenditures			(146.4)						(133.4)						(13.0)
Cash proceeds from settlement of cross currency swap			—						42.5						(42.5)
Financing activities			(843.7)						(648.7)						(195.0)

1.Consists of non-cash charges including depreciation and amortization, impairment charges, stock based compensation expense, deferred income tax expense and others.

2.Includes changes to our accounts receivable, inventory, contract assets and accounts payable.

Cash flows from operating activities provided $26.4 million more cash in 2023 primarily due to the change in net working capital, lower 2023 payments for incentive compensation payments pertaining to fiscal year 2022 company performance, partially offset by lower net income.

Investing activities used $34.1 million more cash in 2023. The change was primarily attributable to the absence of cross currency swap settlement in 2023 and increased capital spending across the Company compared to the prior year, partially offset by the absence of acquisition activity in 2023.

Financing activities used $195.0 million more cash in 2023 primarily due to the net repayments made on the receivable facility in 2023 compared to having net borrowings in 2022. This was partially offset by lower repayments on our term loans in 2023 compared to the prior year.

Free cash flow was $13.4 million higher in 2023 due to changes in cash flows from operating activities noted above, partially offset by an increase in capital spending in 2023, principally reflecting growth-related expansions in our global supply chain.

A discussion and analysis of historical cash flows covering the year ended December 31, 2021 is included in the 2022 Form 10-K.

A significant portion of our long-term financing is from indebtedness. The purpose of this section is to disclose how certain features of our indebtedness influence our liquidity and capital resources. Additional detail about the terms of our indebtedness may be found in note 13 to our consolidated financial statements beginning on page F-1 of this report.

We have entered into a receivables facility and a revolving credit facility that provide us access to cash to fund short-term business needs. See the section entitled “Liquidity” for additional information.

Certain of the debt agreements entered into by our wholly-owned subsidiary, Avantor Funding, Inc., prevent it from paying dividends or making other payments to Avantor, Inc., subject to limited exceptions. At December 31, 2023 and 2022, substantially all of Avantor, Inc.’s net assets were subject to those restrictions.

We are required to make quarterly payments on our senior secured credit facilities, with the balance due on the maturity date. We have generated sufficient cash flows to make all required historical payments, and we expect that our cash flows will continue to be sufficient to make future payments.

To the extent our net leverage ratios, as defined in our credit agreement, reach certain levels, we are required to make additional prepayments if: (i) we generate excess cash flows, as defined in our credit agreement, at specified percentages that decline if certain net leverage ratios are achieved; or (ii) we receive cash proceeds from certain types of asset sales or debt issuances. We are required to make a prepayment of 50% of our excess cash flows if our first lien net leverage ratio, as defined in our credit agreement, exceeds 4.50:1.00, a prepayment of 25% of our excess cash flows if our first lien net leverage ratio is less than or equal to 4.50:1.00 but greater than 3.75:1.00, and no prepayment if our first lien net leverage ratio is less than or equal to 3.75:1.00. As our first lien net leverage ratio was below 3.75:1.00 at December 31, 2023, no additional prepayments were required and no such prepayments have become due since the inception of the credit facilities.

The receivables facility and our senior secured credit facilities contain certain customary covenants, including a financial covenant. That covenant becomes applicable in periods when we have drawn more than 35% of our revolving credit facility. When applicable, we may not have total borrowings in excess of a pro forma net leverage ratio, as defined. This covenant was not applicable at December 31, 2023, and our historical net leverage has been below the covenant requirement.

The following table presents our contractual obligations at December 31, 2023:

(in millions)			Payments due by period
			Total						Short-Term						Long-Term
Debt:
Principal(1)(2)			$	5,580.0					$	259.9					$	5,320.1
Interest(1)			1,106.5						263.6						842.9
Operating leases			144.1						40.5						103.6
Purchase obligations(3)			459.8						130.2						329.6
Other liabilities:
Underfunded defined benefit plans(4)			98.3						7.2						91.1
Transition tax payments(5)			34.8						15.5						19.3
Other			5.0						1.2						3.8
Total			$	7,428.5					$	718.1					$	6,710.4

(1)Includes finance lease liabilities. To calculate payments for principal and interest, we assumed that variable interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates and outstanding borrowings under credit facilities were unchanged from December 31, 2023 through maturity. Further, we have not considered any interest obligation on our receivables facility. For the variable interest rates and principal amounts used, see note 13 to our consolidated financial statements beginning on page F-1 of this report.

(2)Our senior secured credit facilities would require us to accelerate our principal repayments should we generate excess cash flows, as defined, in future periods.

(3)Purchase obligations for certain products and services are made in the normal course of business to meet operating needs.

(4)Represents our obligation to fund defined benefit plans with obligations in excess of plan assets. The total obligation is equal to the aggregate excess of the discounted benefit obligation over the fair value of plan assets for all underfunded plans. The payments due in less than one year are estimated using actuarial methods. The payments due for all other years are estimated by distributing the remaining funding status to future periods in the same way as benefit payments are expected to be made by the plans following actuarial methods.

(5)Represents our transition tax obligation due over eight years to transition to the modified territorial tax system under U.S. income tax legislation issued in 2017.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported throughout the financial statements. Those estimates and assumptions are based on our best estimates and judgment. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis using historical experience and known facts and circumstances. We adjust our estimates and assumptions when we believe the facts and circumstances warrant an adjustment. As future events and their effects cannot be determined with precision, actual results could differ significantly from those estimates.

We consider the policies and estimates discussed below to be critical to an understanding of our financial statements because their application places the most significant demands on our judgment. Specific risks for these critical accounting policies are described in the following sections. For all of these policies, we caution that future events rarely develop exactly as forecasted, and such estimates naturally require adjustment.

Our discussion of critical accounting policies and estimates is intended to supplement, not duplicate, our summary of significant accounting policies so that readers will have greater insight into the uncertainties involved in these areas. For a summary of all of our significant accounting policies, see note 2 to our consolidated financial statements beginning on page F-1 of this report.

We carry significant amounts of goodwill and other intangible assets on our consolidated balance sheet. At December 31, 2023, the combined carrying value of goodwill and other intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization and impairment charges, was $9,492.0 million or 73% of our total assets.

On October 1 of each year, we perform annual impairment testing of our goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets, or more frequently if an event or change in circumstance occurs that would require reassessment of the recoverability of those assets. The impairment analysis for goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets consists of an optional qualitative test potentially followed by a quantitative analysis. These measurements rely upon significant judgment from management described as follows:

•The qualitative analysis for goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets requires us to identify potential factors that may result in an impairment and estimate whether they would warrant performance of a quantitative test;

•The quantitative impairment test requires us to estimate the fair value of our reporting units and indefinite-lived intangible assets. We estimate the fair value of each reporting unit using a weighted average of two valuation methods based on a discounted cash flows method and a guideline public company method. These valuation methods require management to make various assumptions, including, but not limited to, future profitability, cash flows, discount rates, weighting of valuation methods and the selection of comparable publicly traded companies.

Our estimates are based on historical trends, management’s knowledge and experience and overall economic factors, including projections of future earnings potential. Developing future cash flows in applying the income approach requires us to evaluate our intermediate to longer-term strategies, including, but not limited to, estimates about net sales growth, operating margins, capital requirements, inflation and working capital management. The development of appropriate rates to discount the estimated future cash flows requires the selection of risk premiums, which can materially impact the present value of future cash flows. Selection of an appropriate peer group under the market approach involves judgment, and an alternative selection of guideline companies could yield materially different market multiples. Weighing the different value indications involves judgment about their relative usefulness and comparability to the reporting unit.

We did not record any impairment charges as a result of our October 1, 2023 impairment testing. Each reporting unit had a fair value that was in excess of its carrying value, and our indefinite-lived intangible assets did not show any indications that their fair value was more likely than not below their carrying value.

We are required to estimate the degree to which tax assets and loss carryforwards will result in a future income tax benefit, based on our expectations of future profitability by tax jurisdiction. We provide a valuation allowance for deferred tax assets that we believe will more likely than not go unutilized. If it becomes more likely than not that a deferred tax asset will be realized, we reverse the related valuation allowance and recognize an income tax benefit for the amount of the reversal. At December 31, 2023, our valuation allowance on deferred tax assets was $206.1 million, $159.6 million of which relates to foreign net operating loss carry forwards that are not expected to be realized.

We must make assumptions and judgments to estimate the amount of valuation allowance to be recorded against our deferred tax assets, which take into account current tax laws and estimates of the amount of future taxable income, if any. Changes to any of the assumptions or judgments could cause our actual income tax obligations to differ from our estimates.

In the ordinary course of business, there is inherent uncertainty in quantifying our income tax positions. We assess income tax positions for all years subject to examination based upon our evaluation of the facts, circumstances and information available at the reporting date. For those tax positions where it is more likely than not that a tax benefit will be sustained, we have recorded an amount having greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement with a taxing authority assumed to have full knowledge of all relevant information. For those income tax positions where it is not more likely than not that a tax benefit will be sustained, no tax benefit has been recognized in the financial statements. Our reserve for uncertain tax positions was $106.9 million at December 31, 2023, exclusive of penalties and interest. Where applicable, associated interest expense has also been recognized as a component of interest expense.

We operate in numerous countries under many legal forms and, as a result, we are subject to the jurisdiction of numerous domestic and non-U.S. tax authorities, as well as to tax agreements and treaties among these governments. Our tax positions may be scrutinized by local tax authorities upon examination. Determination of taxable income in any jurisdiction requires the interpretation of the related tax laws and regulations, including transfer pricing guidelines, and the use of estimates and assumptions regarding significant future events, such as the amount, timing and character of deductions and the sources and character of income and tax credits. Changes in tax laws, regulations, agreements and treaties, currency exchange restrictions or our level of operations or profitability in each taxing jurisdiction could have an impact upon the amount of current and deferred tax balances and hence our net income.

We file tax returns in each tax jurisdiction that requires us to do so. Should tax return positions not be sustained upon audit, we could be required to record an income tax provision. Should previously unrecognized tax benefits ultimately be sustained, we could be required to record an income tax benefit.

Our employees receive various long-term compensation awards, including stock options, RSUs, performance stock units and cash-based awards. We calculate expense for some of those awards using fair value estimates based on unobservable inputs. Additionally, some of those awards contain performance or market conditions. We assess the probability of achieving those performance conditions, and in cases where partial or exceptional performance affects the size of the award, we also estimate the projected achievement level.

We determine the fair value of awards with market conditions on their grant date using a Monte Carlo model, which incorporates the probability of achieving the market condition in the awards’ fair value. We recognize the expense for such awards ratably over their vesting term.

Expense for stock options without performance or market conditions is determined on the grant date and recognized ratably over their vesting term. We estimate the grant date fair value of stock options using the Black-Scholes model. This model requires us to make various assumptions, with the most significant assumption currently being the volatility of our stock price. A public quotation was first established for our common stock in May 2019, which does not provide adequate historical basis to reasonably estimate the expected volatility of our common stock over their more than six-year expected life. Instead, we estimate volatility based on historical stock price trends of a peer company set. The fair value of our awards would have differed had we selected different peer companies or used a different technique to estimate volatility. Increasing our expected volatility assumption by 5 percentage points for all stock options at the date of grant would have increased our 2023 stock-based compensation expense by $1.6 million.

We value our inventories at the lower of cost or net realizable value. We regularly review quantities of inventories on hand and compare these amounts to the expected use of each product or product line, which can require us to make significant judgments. If our judgments prove to be incorrect, we may be required to record a charge to cost of sales to reduce the carrying amount of inventory on hand to net realizable value. As with any significant estimate, we cannot be certain of future events which may cause us to change our judgments.

We allocate the fair value of purchase consideration to the assets acquired, liabilities assumed, and non-controlling interests in the acquired companies generally based on their fair values at the acquisition date. The excess of the fair value of purchase consideration over the fair value of these assets acquired, liabilities assumed and non-controlling interests in the acquired companies is recorded as goodwill. When determining the fair values of assets acquired, liabilities assumed, and non-controlling interests in the acquired companies, management makes significant estimates related to intangible assets.

Critical estimates in valuing intangible assets include, but are not limited to, expected future cash flows and discount rates. Fair value estimates are based on the assumptions management believes a market participant would use in pricing the asset or liability. Amounts recorded in a business combination may change during the measurement period, which is a period not to exceed one year from the date of acquisitions, as additional information about conditions existing at the acquisition date becomes available.

Although we report our results and financial condition in U.S. dollars, a significant portion of our operating and financing activities are denominated in foreign currencies, principally the Euro but also many others.

Our U.S. subsidiaries carry Euro-denominated debt. This does not result in any material risks from an earnings perspective because the exposure from these instruments is substantially hedged by offsetting exposures from intercompany borrowing arrangements.

From a cash flow perspective, we have the risk of paying more or less cash for any optional or mandatory repayments of our Euro-denominated debt that may not be offset with equivalent cash repayments of our intercompany borrowings. For example, an optional debt repayment of €100 million on December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, with a 10% weakening of the U.S. dollar would have caused us to pay an additional $11.1 million and $10.7 million, respectively, to extinguish that debt.

Changes to foreign currency exchange rates could favorably or unfavorably affect the translation of our foreign operating results. For example, during times of a strengthening U.S. dollar, our reported international sales and earnings will be reduced because local currencies will translate into fewer U.S. dollars. For the year ended December 31, 2023, a 10% strengthening of the U.S. dollar compared to all other currencies would have increased net income by $17.5 million and decreased Adjusted EBITDA by $51.6 million. For the year ended December 31, 2022, a 10% strengthening of the U.S. dollar compared to all other currencies would have decreased net income by $14.3 million and decreased Adjusted EBITDA by $60.3 million.

We carry debt that exposes us to interest rate risk. A portion of our debt consists of variable-rate instruments. We have also issued fixed-rate secured and unsecured notes. None of our other financial instruments are subject to material interest rate risk.

At December 31, 2023, we had borrowings of $1,989.1 million under our senior secured credit facilities and our receivables facility. Borrowings under these facilities bear interest at variable rates based on prevailing LIBOR, EURIBOR and SOFR rates in the financial markets. At December 31, 2023 the Company had $850.0 million of interest rate swaps to convert variable rate interest to fixed rate interest. Changes to those market rates affect both the amount of cash we pay for interest and our reported interest expense. At December 31, 2023, a 100 basis point increase to the applicable variable rates of interest taking into account our interest rate swap would have increased the amount of interest by $11.4 million per annum. At December 31, 2022, a 100 basis point increase to the applicable variable rates of interest would have increased the amount of interest by $20.4 million per annum.

Our senior secured notes and senior unsecured notes bear interest at fixed rates, so their fair value will increase if interest rates fall and decrease if interest rates rise. At December 31, 2023, a 100 basis point decrease in the market rate of interest would have increased their aggregate fair value by $130.6 million. At December 31, 2022, a 100 basis point decrease in the market rate of interest would have increased their aggregate fair value by $147.1 million.

The information required by this item is included at the end of this report beginning on page F-1.

None.

Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) as of December 31, 2023. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2023, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective in providing reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is recorded, processed, summarized, reported, accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

There have been no changes to our internal control over financial reporting during the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2023 that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect our internal control over financial reporting.

Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the company. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Our management conducted an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023 based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Based on this assessment, our management concluded that, as of December 31, 2023, our internal control over financial reporting was effective.

Deloitte & Touche LLP (PCAOB ID No. 34), an independent registered public accounting firm, which has audited and reported on the consolidated financial statements contained in this Form 10-K, has issued its report on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting which follows this report.

We have audited the internal control over financial reporting of Avantor, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2023, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023, of the Company and our report dated February 14, 2024, expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements.

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

On December 8, 2023, Steven Eck, Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (an officer of the Company as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934), adopted a trading plan (the “Plan”) intended to satisfy the affirmative defense of Rule 10b5-1(c) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Plan provides for the sale of up to 5,485 shares of the Company's common stock. The Plan will terminate on the earlier of March 15, 2024, or the execution of all trades contemplated by the Plan.

No other directors or officers, as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, of the Company adopted or terminated (i) a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement, as defined in Item 408(a) under Regulation S-K of the Securities Act of 1933, or (ii) a non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement, as defined in Item 408(c) under Regulation S-K of the Securities Act of 1933, during the three months ended December 31, 2023.

See Part I, “Information about our executive officers” for information about our executive officers, which is incorporated by reference herein. The other information required by Part III is incorporated herein by reference to our definitive proxy statement for our 2024 annual meeting of stockholders.

See Part I, “Information about our executive officers” for information about our executive officers, which is incorporated by reference herein. The other information required by this Item is incorporated herein by reference to the applicable information in our definitive proxy statement for our 2024 annual meeting of stockholders which we intend to file with the SEC no later than 120 days after our 2023 fiscal year end (the “2024 Proxy Statement”).

The following documents are filed as part of this report.

1.Financial Statements and Schedules. See Index to Consolidated Financial Statements and Schedules on page F-1.

2.Exhibits:

Exhibit no.

Description

Location of exhibits

Form

Exhibit no.

Filing date

3.1

Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, effective May 13, 2021

8-K

3.1

5/17/2021

3.2

Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of Avantor, Inc.

8-K

3.1

1/28/2021

3.3

Certificate of Designations of 6.250% Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock of Avantor, Inc.

8-K

3.3

5/21/2019

3.4

Certificate of Elimination relating to the 6.250% Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock

8-K

3.1

5/17/2022

4.1

Description of capital stock

10-K

4.1

2/14/2023

4.2

Indenture, dated as of July 17, 2020, among Avantor Funding, Inc., the guarantors party thereto and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee.

8-K

4.1

7/17/2020

4.3

Indenture, dated as of November 6, 2020, among Avantor Funding, Inc., the guarantors party thereto and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee and Notes Collateral Agent.

8-K

4.1

11/6/2020

4.4

Indenture, dated as of October 26, 2021, among Avantor Funding, Inc., the guarantors party thereto and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee.

8-K

4.1

10/26/2021

10.1

Credit Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2017, by and among Vail Holdco Sub LLC, Avantor Funding, Inc. (f/k/a Avantor, Inc.), the guarantors party thereto, Goldman Sachs Bank USA and the other lenders, l/c issuers and parties thereto.

S-1/A

10.1

4/10/2019

10.2

Amendment No. 1, to the Credit Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2017, among Vail Holdco Sub LLC, Avantor Funding, Inc., the guarantors party thereto, Goldman Sachs Bank USA and the other lenders, l/c issuers and parties thereto.

S-1/A

10.2

4/10/2019

*    Filed herewith

**    Furnished herewith

^    Indicates management contract or compensatory plan, contract or arrangement.

None.

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

			Avantor, Inc.
Date: February 14, 2024			By:			/s/ Steven Eck
						Name:			Steven Eck
						Title:			Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities indicated, as of February 14, 2024.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Avantor, Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company") as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income or loss, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows, for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2023, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "financial statements"). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2023, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 14, 2024, expressed an unqualified opinion on the Company's internal control over financial reporting.

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current-period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

Goodwill is tested for impairment at the reporting unit level on October 1 of each year or more frequently whenever an event or change in circumstance occurs that would require reassessment of the recoverability of the asset. Quantitative impairment testing requires the Company to estimate the fair value of each of its four reporting units. The Company estimates the fair value of each reporting unit using a weighted average of two valuation methods based on a discounted cash flows method and a guideline public company method. These valuation methods require management to make various assumptions, which include, but are not limited to, future profitability, cash flows, discount rates, weighting of valuation methods, and the selection of comparable publicly traded companies (peer groups). If the Company determines the carrying value of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, an impairment charge is recorded for the excess. No impairment charges were recorded as each reporting unit had a fair value in excess of its carrying value.

The assumptions management made to estimate fair value for the Americas and Europe reporting units under the discounted cash flows method included net sales growth and discount rates and, under the guideline public company method, the selection of appropriate peer groups and market multiples. Performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of these assumptions for the Americas and Europe reporting units required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort, including the need to involve our fair value specialists.

Our audit procedures over management’s estimates of net sales growth and discount rates as well as the selection of peer groups and market multiples for the Americas and Europe reporting units included the following, among others:

•We tested the effectiveness of controls over management’s goodwill impairment testing, including those over management’s assumptions of net sales growth and discount rates under the discounted cash flows method and the selection of appropriate peer groups and market multiples under the guideline public company method.

•We evaluated management’s ability to accurately forecast net sales growth by comparing management’s forecasts reflected in the prior period Americas and European reporting unit forecasts to actual results.

•With the assistance of our fair value specialists, we evaluated the reasonableness of the discount rate assumptions and the selection of peer groups and guideline public company market multiples, including testing the underlying information supporting these assumptions and the mathematical accuracy of the calculations.

The Company’s long-lived assets include property, plant and equipment, finite-lived intangible assets and certain other assets. For impairment purposes, the Company groups its long-lived assets with working capital and other types of assets or liabilities if they generate cash flows on a combined basis. The Company evaluates long-lived assets, or asset groups, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate a potential inability to recover their carrying amounts.

Events that result in an impairment review include a significant decrease in the operating results of the asset group or significant adverse changes in the business climate. When such events or changes in circumstances occur, the Company compares the asset group’s carrying value to its estimated undiscounted future cash flows. If the carrying value of the asset group exceeds the estimated undiscounted future cash flows, an analysis is performed to estimate the fair value of the asset group. An impairment charge is recorded if the fair value of the asset group is less than its carrying amount.

Due to sustained revenue declines at Ritter, the Company performed an impairment review of the asset group, which resulted in a fair value that was lower than its carrying value. As a result, the Company recorded impairment charges of $106.4 million on Ritter’s finite-lived intangible assets and $54.4 million on Ritter’s property, plant, and equipment in fiscal 2023. The Company’s cash flow analysis performed to evaluate the Ritter asset group for impairment included the following key assumptions: revenues, gross margin, and current market assumptions for the discount rate.

Performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of the cash flow analysis required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort, including the need to use more experienced audit professionals as well as the assistance of our fair value specialists.

Our audit procedures to evaluate Management’s methodology to develop an estimate for the fair value of the asset group , included the following, among others:

•We tested the effectiveness of the controls over management’s key assumptions utilized in estimating the fair value of the asset group, such as sales and gross profit forecast as well as discount rate.

•We evaluated the reasonableness of the key assumptions used in management’s cash flow forecast by comparing them to:

–Historical sales and gross profit.

–External information regarding industry growth and trends.

•With the assistance of our fair value specialists, we evaluated the methodology used to determine the fair value of the asset group and reasonableness of the discount rate assumptions, including testing the underlying information supporting these assumptions and the mathematical accuracy of the calculations.

The Company operates in numerous countries under many legal forms and, as a result, is subject to the jurisdiction of numerous domestic and non-U.S. tax authorities, as well as to tax agreements and treaties among these governments. Determination of taxable income in any jurisdiction requires the interpretation of the related tax laws and regulations including transfer pricing guidelines. In the normal course of business, the Company is subject to examination by taxing authorities throughout the world. The Company evaluates its tax position using the recognition threshold and the measurement analysis in accordance with the accounting guidance. A tax position that meets the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold is measured to determine the amount of benefit recognized in the financial statements.

Performing audit procedures to evaluate uncertain tax positions for transfer pricing, required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort, including the need to use more experienced audit professionals as well as the assistance of tax and transfer pricing specialists.

Our audit procedures related to the Company’s uncertain tax positions for transfer pricing included the following, among others:

•We tested the effectiveness of controls over management’s evaluation and determination of uncertain tax positions for transfer pricing.

•With the assistance of our tax specialists, including transfer pricing professionals, we evaluated the Company’s uncertain tax positions related to transfer pricing and performed the following:

–We evaluated the third-party transfer pricing studies obtained by the Company and assessed the transfer pricing studies with applicable laws and regulations, including transfer pricing guidelines, as well as how the Company applied the transfer pricing method to its transactions.