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Vinge advises Calliditas Therapeutics in connection with acquisition of controlling interest in Genkyotex SA

August 13, 2020

Vinge advises Calliditas Therapeutics, a specialty pharmaceutical company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and on The Nasdaq Global Select Market in the US, in connection with its acquisition of a controlling interest of 62.7% of the French company Genkyotex SA, a leader in NOX inhibition therapies and listed on Euronext Paris and Euronext Brussels.

Calliditas is seeking to acquire all outstanding Genkyotex shares and will following completion of the control transaction, which is expected to close in October 2020, launch a mandatory cash tender offer on the same terms for the remaining shares.

Vinge’s team comprises Dain Hård Nevonen, Sofie Bjärtun, Linnéa Sellström and Julia Hirschberg.





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