{"id":631625,"date":"2010-01-15T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=58720"},"modified":"2010-01-15T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:24:20","slug":"arch-polaris-spring-decode-from-chap-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/631625","title":{"rendered":"Arch, Polaris Spring deCode from Chap. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/DNA\/\">DNA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/deals\/\">deals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/Life-Sciences\/\">Life Sciences<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Ryan McBride wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Venture Wire reports today that a Delaware bankruptcy court has approved the sale of Iceland-based genomics firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decode.com\/\">deCode<\/a> Genetics to Arch Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners, both of which are previous investors in the company. Waltham, MA-based Polaris and ARCH, which has operations in Boston and Seattle, are paying $14 million for the deCode assets, the report says. DeCode (NASDAQ:<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=DCGN\">DCGN<\/a>) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November. Bob Nelsen, a managing director at Arch, wrote in an e-mail that he would talk about the deal next week, when the deal is expected to be formally announced.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/01\/15\/arch-polaris-spring-decode-from-chap-11\/#comments\">Comments (1)<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20Arch,%20Polaris%20Spring%20deCode%20from%20Chap.%2011%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=58720\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/twitter.gif?w=780\" alt=\"Retweet\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/01\/15\/arch-polaris-spring-decode-from-chap-11\/&#038;t=Arch,%20Polaris%20Spring%20deCode%20from%20Chap.%2011\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/facebook.gif?w=780\" alt=\"Facebook\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/01\/15\/arch-polaris-spring-decode-from-chap-11\/email\/  rel=\"nofollow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/email.gif?w=780\" alt=\"Email\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/item?publisher=bfda184d-6684-4f7a-a23f-ca4ed4db9287&amp;title=Arch%2C+Polaris+Spring+deCode+from+Chap.+11&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xconomy.com%2Fboston%2F2010%2F01%2F15%2Farch-polaris-spring-decode-from-chap-11%2F\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/share.gif?w=780\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t     \t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=a7a42f90672ed16867f20ac4c61dbac0&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=a7a42f90672ed16867f20ac4c61dbac0&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/E15lmii2mD3d4SUMn8RUG669uCY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/E15lmii2mD3d4SUMn8RUG669uCY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/E15lmii2mD3d4SUMn8RUG669uCY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/E15lmii2mD3d4SUMn8RUG669uCY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Xconomy_Full\/~4\/JJmyenPLYlI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA, deals, Life Sciences Ryan McBride wrote: Venture Wire reports today that a Delaware bankruptcy court has approved the sale of Iceland-based genomics firm deCode Genetics to Arch Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners, both of which are previous investors in the company. Waltham, MA-based Polaris and ARCH, which has operations in Boston and Seattle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ejv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}