Ropes & Gray Advises GHO Capital in Sale of Caprion Biosciences

In The News
July 31, 2019

Ropes & Gray advised London-based Global Healthcare Opportunities, or GHO Capital Partners LLP, the European specialist investor in healthcare, in the sale of Caprion Biosciences to private equity firm Arsenal Capital Partners. The transaction was announced on July 31.

Caprion is a specialized laboratory services business serving pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in pre-clinical and clinical stage drug research and development.

The Ropes & Gray team was led by private equity transactions partners Neill Jakobe and Timothy Castelli (both of Chicago) and included tax partner Elaine Murphy (Boston), finance partner Alex Zeltser (New York), benefits partners Alexandra Alperovich (New York) and Loretta Richard (Boston), health care partner Deborah Gersh (Chicago), life sciences regulatory & compliance partner Kellie Combs (Washington, D.C.), private equity transactions associate Andrew Pomranke (Chicago) and labor & employment associate Jennifer Cormier (Boston).