Investment Bank Offers $77 Million to Buy Syncor

A Lisle, Ill., investment bank Friday submitted an offer worth about $77 million to buy Syncor International Corp., the Chatsworth distributor of radiopharmaceuticals.

Van Kampen Merritt, the investment bank, said it was making the $7.57-per-share bid on behalf of an unnamed client.

Dee Carrington, vice president for home care at Syncor, said the company’s board would evaluate the offer.

The offer expires Thursday.