LOS ANGELES, CA August 6, 2019 - Erik Ridgley, CFA is CEO & Chief Investment Officer of Salem Partners Wealth Management, a boutique multi-family investment office for founders, CEOs, entrepreneurial families, and ultra-high net worth individuals. His firm is a fiduciary and fee-only SEC-registered investment adviser that combines institutional expertise in public markets and private investments with personalized financial planning and customized portfolios to drive successful outcomes and build long-term client relationships...(read more) ​

OncoNano Medicine, Inc. today announced the completion of its Phase 1a clinical trial and expansion into Phase 1b to evaluate ONM-100, the intravenously administered imaging agent to detect tumors and metastatic lymph nodes in solid cancers during surgery. The results of Phase 1a will be included in a poster presentation at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium being held on December 4-8, 2018... (read more)

​AsclepiX Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing vital new therapies based on a novel peptide platform, today announced that it has raised $5 million in Convertible Note funding, led by Barer & Son Capital with additional funds from Rapha Capital Management, Salem Partners, TEDCO, and Piedmont Capital Partners. In concert with the funding, AsclepiX expanded its board to add Josh Barer, Kevin Slawin, MD, and Sapna Srivastava, PhD, to the founding members Aleksander Popel, PhD and Jordan J. Green, PhD and CEO Wendy Perrow, MBA... (read more)

Sebacia, Inc., a privately held, commercial stage dermatology and aesthetics company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance for its lead product, Sebacia Microparticles. This significant achievement is a milestone in the treatment of acne and follows the company’s completion of its pivotal study, which clearly demonstrated clinical efficacy and safety of Sebacia Microparticles, and its 510(k) submission to the FDA in June 2018... (read more)

Synteract has snapped up the specialty contract researcher Cu-Tech, with plans to establish a dedicated center for the development of dermatology products and make the midsized, global CRO into a destination for skin-care clinical trials.
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The Mountain Lakes, New Jersey-based Cu-Tech has managed more than 130 dermatology trials over the past two decades, covering a variety of indications... (read more)

Salem Partners, LLC is pleased to announce the successful completion and placement of a $54 million revolving credit facility for its client, Eisenhower Property Group (“EPG”). Salem Partners advised EPG on an exclusive basis and selected a credit hedge fund to provide the financing. First closing of the facility occurred on June 13th, 2018.

Jeff Barcy, Managing Director of Salem Partners’ real estate investment banking group, and Parker Bennett, Director of real estate investment banking, led negotiations and... (read more)

SOUTHLAKE, TX - OncoNano Medicine, Inc. today announced the closing of a $11.7 million Series A financing. The transaction was arranged by Salem Partners, who also participated as a principal investor. The Series A funding supplements a $6 million grant previously received from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). The funding will be used to support the company’s continued clinical development of a new class of pH-activated compounds that digitalize and exploit the variability of pH in disease indications such as cancer. The company is also pleased to announce the appointment of five established industry leaders to its Board of Directors... (read more)

LOS ANGELES, CA - Salem Partners, LLC is pleased to announce the successful completion of a $40 million convertible preferred equity placement for its client, Four Springs Capital Trust (“FSCT” or “Four Springs”) with Guggenheim Investments (“Guggenheim”).  The transaction closed on January 23th, 2018, with Salem Partners acting as the financial advisor and investment bank to FSCT.  Jeff Barcy, Managing Director of Salem Partners’ real estate investment banking group, and Parker Bennett, Director of real estate investment banking, led negotiations... (read more)

HONOLULU, HI - ​Salem Partners, through one of its affiliated entities, has sold a Walgreens flagship store located at 1500 Kapiolani Boulevard in Honolulu for $42.25 million, one of the highest sales prices for a store in Walgreens’ history... (read more) 

LOS ANGELES, CA -- ​Salem Partners is pleased to announce the successful completion of a programmatic joint-venture in the real estate / multifamily sector for its client, Grand Peaks Properties, Inc. (“GPP”). The joint-venture is between GPP and a global family office with the objective to aggregate $1 billion of multifamily assets.  GPP is a vertically-integrated, national operator... (read more)

​LOS ANGELES, CA - The Honolulu City Council has approved a $700 million, 36-story mixed-use tower across from the Convention Center to be developed by Los Angeles-based Salem Partners. Located at the intersection of Kapiolani Boulevard and Atkinson Drive, Mana`olana Place is the first approved project in the city’s newly adopted Ala Moana transit-oriented district and is expected to be a catalyst for further investment in the area. The iconic tower’s 505,000 square feet will house a 125-room ultra-luxury hotel.... (read more)

LOS ANGELES, CA - Salem Partners is pleased to announce the successful completion of a large programmatic joint-venture in the real estate / medical office sector for its client, Everest Medical Core Properties (“Everest MCP”). The joint-venture is between Everest MCP and a major, U.S. based real estate private equity firm.... (read more).

HONOLULU, HI - ​Walgreens’ Hawaii flagship store in Honolulu won this year’s highest level of recognition in the retail store design category of the International Council of Shopping Centers’ awards competition for U.S. design and development... (read more)

ATLANTA, GA - December 14, 2015 --- Femasys Inc., a developer of innovative medical devices for the women’s healthcare market today announced the appointment of Todd A. Creech as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Creech will serve as Femasys’ principal financial and... (read more)

HONOLULU, HI - Walgreens has sold its flagship Hawaii store across from Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, along with the adjacent Heald College Building on Kapiolani Boulevard, to Los Angeles-based investment bank and wealth management firm Salem Partners for a total of $73.5 million...(read more)

LONDON — The British drug maker AstraZeneca said on Friday that it had agreed to acquire ZS Pharma, a California-based biopharmaceutical company, for $2.7 billion in cash.  The transaction is expected to improve AstraZeneca’s pipeline of treatments for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and comes as the British drug maker is set to lose exclusivity in the United States for its best-selling cholesterol treatment, Crestor...(read more)

Revolution Studios has purchased Cold Spring Pictures' motion picture library, which includes eight films, one of which is 2009's Up in the Air, starring George Clooney. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cold Spring Pictures was created in 2006 as a production facility to co-finance motion pictures... (read more)