Ropes & Gray Advises SC Health Corp in its Merger with Rockley Photonics and NYSE Listing

Ropes & Gray is representing SC Health Corp. in its proposed merger with Rockley Photonics, Ltd announced on 19 March 2021.  The transaction will result in Rockley becoming a publicly traded company on the NYSE under the symbol RKLY and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021.  

SC Health Corp is a publicly traded special purpose acquisitions company incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Rockley is a leading integrated photonics chipset developer and module supplier for high-volume sensor and communication products formed in 2013 and led by Dr. Andrew Rickman, founder of the first commercial silicon photonics company, Bookham Technology.  Ropes & Gray also represented SC Health Corp in its $172.5 million IPO.

The Ropes & Gray team that represented SC Health Corp was led by private equity partners Carl Marcellino (New York) and Elizabeth Todd (London), and included private equity associate Nicholas Matthew (London), capital markets partners Paul Tropp and Christopher Capuzzi (both of New York), mergers & acquisitions partner Tara Fisher Oh (Boston), tax partners Elaine Murphy (Boston) and Brenda Coleman (London) and tax counsel Christopher Agnoli (London), litigation & enforcement partners Ruchit Patel (London) and Ama Adams (Washington D.C.) and counsel Deidre Johnson (Boston), employment, executive compensation & benefits partner Loretta Richard (Boston), and data, privacy & cybersecurity partner Rohan Massey (London).