Akin Advises Paine Schwartz Partners and HGS BioScience in Acquisition of NutriAg Ltd.

(New York) – Akin advised Paine Schwartz Partners–backed HGS BioScience, a leading provider of humic and fulvic products, in its acquisition of NutriAg Ltd., a Toronto-based innovator in bionutritional technologies. The combination brings together HGS’s strength in humic acid-based products, U.S. market presence and manufacturing footprint with NutriAg’s bionutritional product portfolio, Canadian market access and research and development engine. 

The Akin team was led by private equity partners Sergio Urías and Michelle Chan, and included associates Raneen Farooq and Lance Tinana; finance partners Alan Laves and Chad Nichols; counsel Trevor Vega; and associates Matthew Sebbag, Kathryn Faulk and Jake Gawlak. 

 Additional support was provided by: 

• tax partner David Snyder, counsel Julie Geng and associate Sydney DeMezzo; 

• executive compensation & employee benefits partner Wells Miller and counsel Juan Sanchez;   

• labor & employment partner Lauren Leyden, counsel Alex Lau and associate Jeremy Gerstenhaber; 

• real estate counsel Alex Agahzadeh; 

• environment & natural resources head David Quigley, senior counsel Andrew Oelz and associate Olivia Satterfield; 

• cybersecurity, privacy & data protection practice co-head Natasha Kohne, senior counsel Michael Miller and advisor Joseph Hold; 

• intellectual property partner David Vondle; 

• international trade partners Melissa Schwartz, Alexis Guinan and Suzanne Kane and associate Eveline Liu; 

• and regulatory partner Nate Brown, counsel Remi Mehner and consultant John Gilliland. 

For further information on the transaction, please click here.  

Akin is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.   

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