Conor F. Larkin | Philadelphia | Hogan Lovells

Conor F. Larkin

Partner Corporate & Finance

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Conor F. Larkin
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  • Overview
  • Experience
  • Credentials
  • Insights and events

Conor F. Larkin advises public and private companies and private equity firms on a broad spectrum of corporate matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, joint ventures, financing, and commercial transactions. His practice spans a variety of industries, including life sciences and health care, energy, consumer, manufacturing and industrials, and private capital. 

His life sciences practice includes  experience structuring and negotiating royalty monetization transactions, including synthetic royalty financings, on behalf of investors, life sciences companies, and other royalty holders. His midstream and downstream oil and gas work includes representation of master limited partnerships and negotiating major infrastructure projects and joint ventures, as well as long-term commercial agreements.

Before attending law school, Conor was a consultant in the corporate advisory division of Thomson Reuters in New York, where he counseled Fortune 500 companies on their investor relations efforts and best practices for investor relations and financial communications. He continues to counsel public company clients on securities and corporate governance matters. 

Representative experience

Ligand Pharmaceuticals on its royalty financing with Castle Creek Biosciences, to support the Phase 3 study of D-Fi, Castle Creek’s lead candidate, in patients with dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.*

Ligand Pharmaceuticals on its purchase of third-party and synthetic royalty interests from Agenus Inc. to support Agenus’s ongoing botensilimab and balstilimab clinical development program.*

Integra LifeSciences Holdings on its acquisition of Acclarent Inc., a medical device company supporting ENT surgeons with minimally invasive technologies, from Johnson & Johnson.*

Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation on the sale of its Extremity Orthopedics business to Smith+Nephew.*

Healthcare Royalty Partners on numerous royalty monetization transactions, including Genfit SA, Acorda Therapeutics Inc., Albireo Pharma Inc., REGENXBIO Inc., and Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Inc.* 

Antares Pharma on its US$960m sale to Halozyme.*

Nevakar Inc. in royalty monetization transactions with NovaQuest Capital Management and H.I.G. Capital.*

Phathom Pharmaceuticals Inc. on a revenue interest financing for up to US$260m in non-dilutive capital with Sagard Healthcare Partners, NovaQuest Capital Management, and Hercules Capital Inc.*

Medical device tubing manufacturer Fluortek on its sale to Nordson Corporation.*

Aptevo Therapeutics in two royalty monetization transactions.*

HollyFrontier Corp. on its US$1.25bn IDR elimination transaction with Holly Energy Partners, including the acquisition of common units of Holly Energy Partners.*

MPLX LP on the strategic combination of the Whistler Pipeline with Enbridge Inc.’s Rio Bravo Pipeline project, which valued the existing Whistler Pipeline and its subsidiaries at US$4.9bn.*

Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. (FEMSA) on its US$350m acquisition of 250 retail gas stations and convenience stores across New Mexico, Texas, and Arkansas from Delek.*

Buckeye Partners on its sale of South Texas Gateway Terminal, which was jointly owned with affiliates of Marathon Petroleum and Phillips 66 to Gibson Energy Inc. for US$1.1bn.*

HF Sinclair Corporation (f/k/a HollyFrontier Corporation) on its US$1.8bn acquisition on Sinclair Oil.*

Buckeye Partners on its acquisition of Magellan’s independent terminals network comprised of 26 refined petroleum products terminals for US$435m.*

HollyFrontier on its US$350m acquisition of the Puget Sound refinery from Shell.*

HollyFrontier Corp. on the US$655m acquisition of Sonneborn U.S. Holdings Inc. and Sonneborn Coöperatief U.A., one of the world’s largest dedicated suppliers of white oils, petrolatums and waxes.*

A subsidiary of MPLX LP and Marathon Petroleum Corp., on a joint venture with WhiteWater Midstream LLC to acquire a 30% interest in a 323-mile NGL pipeline in Texas from EPIC Midstream LLC.*

HollyFrontier Corp. on its US$845m acquisition of Suncor Energy’s Petro-Canada lubricants business.*

*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.

Credentials

Education
  • J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2012
  • B.A., Boston College, Magna Cum Laude, 2006
Bar admissions and qualifications
  • Pennsylvania
  • Texas

Recognition

Recommended, M&A/corporate and commercial: M&A: large deals ($1bn+)

The Legal 500 US

2023, 2024
Rising Star Partner

IFLR1000 Financial & Corporate Guide

2023