Cempra and Melinta Announce Expiration of Hart-Scott-Rodino Waiting Period for Proposed Merger

Cempra, Inc. (Nasdaq:CEMP), 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 diseases, and Melinta Therapeutics, a privately held company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel antibiotics to treat serious bacterial infections, today announced that the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR) with respect to Melinta’s pending merger with a subsidiary of Cempra has now expired.