CryoLife Commences Tender Offer for All Outstanding Shares of Cardiogenesis Corporation

CryoLife, Inc. (NYSE: CRY) announced today that it, through its wholly-owned subsidiary CL Falcon, Inc., has commenced a cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of Cardiogenesis Corporation (CGCP) common stock. The tender offer is being made pursuant to the previously announced definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger dated March 28, 2011. Subject to the terms and conditions of the tender offer, Cardiogenesis stockholders who validly tender their shares may elect to receive, for each share of Cardiogenesis common stock they tender in the tender offer, $0.457 in cash, without interest and less any required withholding taxes. The Board of Directors of Cardiogenesis has unanimously determined that the tender offer and the other transactions contemplated by the merger agreement are fair to and in the best interests of the Cardiogenesis shareholders, and has unanimously recommended that Cardiogenesis stockholders tender their shares into the tender offer.