Ardena Completes Acquisition of Advanced Drug Product Manufacturing Facility in Somerset, NJ and Expands Bioanalytical Services in North America

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February 6, 2025

Ropes & Gray represented Ardena, a portfolio company of GHO Capital Partners, in its completed acquisition of Catalent’s drug product manufacturing facility in Somerset, NJ. The completed transaction was announced in a Feb. 4 press release.

Ardena is a specialist pharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) and bioanalytical Contract Research Organization (CRO) with facilities in Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

The Ropes & Gray team included private equity partners Tim Castelli, Andrew Pomranke and Shona Ha, finance partner Alex Robb, real estate investments & transactions partners Peter Alpert and David Kaye, IP transactions partner Emily Karlberg, tax partner Elaine Murphy, employment partner Jen Cormier, FDA partner Josh Oyster, health care partner Christina Bergeron, and litigation & enforcement partner Lisa Kaltenbrunner.