Eversheds Sutherland advises Pacira BioSciences, Inc., on its acquisition of GQ Bio Therapeutics

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Eversheds Sutherland advises Pacira BioSciences, Inc., on its acquisition of GQ Bio Therapeutics

March 03, 2025

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Eversheds Sutherland has advised NASDAQ listed Pacira BioSciences, Inc., on its acquisition of the remaining 81 percent equity stake of GQ Bio Therapeutics GmbH.
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Eversheds Sutherland advised Pacira BioSciences on the German law aspects of the transaction.

Pacira acquired the outstanding stake in GQ Bio from the founders and venture capital investors like High-Tech Gründerfonds and IFB Innovationsstarter GmbH. This transaction builds upon Pacira’s previous investments in GQ Bio, as well as the two companies’ partnership for the development of a commercially scalable manufacturing process for PCRX-201 (enekinragene inzadenovec) and other products utilizing GQ Bio’s high-capacity adenovirus, or HCAd, gene therapy vector platform.

GQ Bio is a privately held biopharmaceutical company with a novel, high-capacity, local-delivery platform that makes genetic medicines more efficient and enables the use of large and multiple gene constructs. GQ Bio also brings to Pacira a preclinical portfolio of assets with disease-modifying potential in prevalent musculoskeletal diseases, and research and development talent.

The Eversheds Sutherland team was co-led by Partners Robin Johnson in the UK, Dr. Christian Mense and Dr. Christian Lindner in Germany.

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Robin Johnson

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