Emergent BioSolutions Finalizes Sale of Baltimore-Camden Manufacturing Site to Bora Pharmaceuticals

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) today announced it has completed the sale of its drug product facility in Baltimore-Camden to an affiliate of Bora Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (“Bora”, TWSE: 6472). Emergent received approximately $30 million at closing, which is subject to customary post-closing adjustments.

With the transaction closed, Bora has acquired the assets, equipment, and workforce associated with the 87,000 square foot Baltimore-Camden manufacturing facility.

“This milestone is a significant step forward in our multi-year plan to stabilize, turnaround, and transform Emergent,” said Joe Papa, President and CEO at Emergent. “We remain focused on building a customer-focused, leaner and more flexible organization, while we continue to execute our multi-year plan to improve overall profitability and raise capital to reduce our debt.   We thank our Camden colleagues again for all of their contributions.”

For Emergent, Truist Securities served as financial advisor, and Covington & Burling LLP served as legal counsel in connection with this transaction.

About Emergent BioSolutions

At Emergent, our mission is to protect and enhance life. For 25 years, we’ve been at work defending people from things we hope will never happen—so we are prepared just in case they ever do. We provide solutions for complex and urgent public health threats through a portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics that we develop and manufacture for governments and consumers. We also offer a range of integrated contract development and manufacturing services for pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers. To learn more about how we plan to protect or enhance 1 billion lives by 2030, visit our  and follow us on , , ,  and .

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