William Kridel JD - Director
KERMODE BIOTECHNOLOGIES

William Kridel brings over five decades of distinguished expertise in international corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and investment banking to Kermode Biotechnologies Inc., where he serves as a strategic advisor and business development executive. His extensive experience spans evaluating science, technology, and clinical development aspects of biotechnology companies across multiple industry segments.

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Mr. Kridel is the founder of Ferghana Partners, where he leads new business development and oversees all types of transactions across the firm's diverse industry portfolio. His strategic vision encompasses the comprehensive evaluation of clients, counterparties, and competitor companies from both financial and scientific perspectives.

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Prior to founding Ferghana Partners, Mr. Kridel served as Managing Director at BZW, the merchant banking arm of Barclays Bank, where he held responsibility for corporate finance and M&A advisory services. His entrepreneurial success includes founding The Kridel Group, an investment banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and equity private placements, which he successfully sold to Peers & Company in 1988. Following the acquisition, he managed the European operations from the Paris office of this investment banking affiliate of the Long Term Credit Bank of Japan until 1991.

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Mr. Kridel's international finance expertise was cultivated through senior positions including Vice President in the International Corporate Finance Department at Baring Bros. & Co in London and Paris from 1971-1977, and earlier experience in the International Finance and Acquisition group at Banque Paribas in Paris from 1970-1971.

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Mr. Kridel received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, graduating with honors from both institutions. He also completed studies at Choate School and pursued additional coursework in business and chemical engineering. He is qualified to practice law in multiple jurisdictions, including New York State, Patent Court, and before the US Supreme Court, and previously practiced mergers and acquisitions and financing law at the prestigious firm Shearman & Sterling.

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