Bloomberg Law
Jan. 6, 2017, 8:31 PM UTC

Shkreli’s Former Company Names New GC

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

Retrophin Inc., the biopharmaceutical company locked in litigation with its embattled founder Martin Shkreli, announced earlier this week it has appointed Elizabeth Reed as its general counsel and corporate secretary.

Reed joins from Celladon Corporation, where she was general counsel and secretary, and which merged in 2016 with Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc.

Retrophin has been in the headlines since December 2015, when a federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicted Shkreli on securities fraud charges, accusing him of plundering assets from the company in order to repay investors in a separate hedge fund he operated.

The indictment also named Retrophin’s onetime outside counsel Evan Greebel, a ...

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