Malin Investee Company - Melinta Therapeutics - To Be Transformed into a NASDAQ Listed Company

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Malin Corporation plc. (ISE:MLC, "Malin"), an Irish based and globally operating life sciences company, today announced that Melinta Therapeutics, Inc. (“Melinta”), a Malin investee company focused on discovering, developing, and commercialising novel antibiotics to treat serious bacterial infections, has entered into a definitive agreement with Cempra, Inc. (Nasdaq:CEMP, “Cempra”), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing differentiated anti-infectives for acute care and community settings to meet critical medical needs in the treatment of infectious disease.