NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities firm headquartered in New York City, is investigating the Board of Directors of Affymetrix Inc. ("Affymetrix" or the "Company") (NasdaqGS:AFFX) for potential breaches of fiduciary duties in connection with the sale of the Company to Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. for approximately $1.3 billion.

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The Company's stockholders will only receive $14.00 in cash for each share of Company common stock they own.

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The investigation focuses on whether Affymetrix's Board of Directors breached their fiduciary duties to the Company's stockholders by failing to conduct a fair sales process and whether and by how much this proposed transaction undervalues the Company to the detriment of Affymetrix's shareholders.

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