backATLANTA, December 5, 2014 – King & Spalding advised Arbor Pharmaceuticals in the sale of a minority stake in this privately held company to global investment firm KKR. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The King & Spalding legal team was led by corporate partner Jack Capers(Atlanta) and partner-elect Matthew Stewart Silicon Valley), with assistance from the following lawyers:
Corporate:
Christopher Austin (associate, Atlanta)
Sawyer Duncan (associate, Atlanta)
Samira Hariramasamy (associate, Silicon Valley)
Nathan Mihalik (associate, Atlanta)
Brian Park (associate, Atlanta)
Daniel Ray (associate, Silicon Valley)
Spencer Stockdale (associate, Atlanta)
Intellectual property:
Rebecca Kaufman (partner, Atlanta)
Tax:
John Sweet (partner, New York)
ERISA:
Kenneth Raskin (partner, New York)
Antitrust:
Jeffrey Spigel (partner, Washington, D.C.)
FDA and life sciences:
Jessica Ringel (associate, Washington, D.C.)
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a specialty pharmaceutical company currently focused on the cardiovascular, hospital and pediatric markets.
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