Cases & Deals

Vifor Pharma invests $50 million in Cara Therapeutics

Client(s) Vifor Pharma

Jones Day advised Vifor (International) Ltd., part of Vifor Pharma Group, a global pharmaceutical company, on its $50 million investment in Cara Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, as part of a licensing agreement for the commercialization of a drug used to treat chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus in the U.S. dialysis market.