Exhibit 5.1
December 4, 2024
Revvity, Inc.
77 4th Avenue
Waltham, Massachusetts 02451
Re: |
Registration Statement on Form S-8: 2008 Deferred Compensation Plan,
as amended |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We
have assisted in the preparation of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the Registration Statement) to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
Commission) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), relating to the registration of $30,000,000 of deferred compensation obligations (the Obligations), which will
represent unsecured obligations of Revvity, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the Company), in accordance with the terms of the Companys 2008 Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended (the Plan).
We have examined the Articles of Organization and By-Laws of the Company, each as amended and restated to date, and
originals, or copies certified to our satisfaction, of all pertinent records of the meetings of the directors and shareholders of the Company, the Registration Statement and such other documents relating to the Company as we have deemed material for
the purposes of this opinion.
In our examination of the foregoing documents, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all
documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as certified, photostatic or other copies, the authenticity of the originals of any such documents and the legal competence of all
signatories to such documents.
We assume that the appropriate action will be taken, prior to the offer and sale of the Obligations in accordance with the
Plan, to register and qualify the Obligations for sale under all applicable state securities or blue sky laws.
We express no opinion herein
as to the laws of any state or jurisdiction other than the state laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the federal laws of the United States of America.
Our opinions below are qualified to the extent that they may be subject to or affected by (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
receivership, moratorium, usury, fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer or similar laws relating to or affecting the rights or remedies of creditors generally, (ii) duties and standards imposed on creditors and parties to contracts,
including, without limitation, requirements of materiality, good faith, reasonableness and fair dealing and (iii) general equitable principles. Furthermore, we express no opinion as to the availability of any equitable or specific remedy upon
any breach of any of the Obligations, the Plan or any of the agreements, documents or obligations referred to therein, or to the successful assertion of any equitable defenses, inasmuch as the availability of such remedies or the success of any
equitable defenses may be subject to the discretion of a court.