/EINPresswire.com/ -- DUBLIN, IRELAND -- (Marketwired) -- 01/14/16 -- Horizon Pharma plc (NASDAQ: HZNP), a biopharmaceutical company focused on improving patients' lives by identifying, developing, acquiring and commercializing differentiated and accessible medicines that address unmet medical needs, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Crealta Holdings LLC for approximately $510 million in cash.

About Horizon Pharma plc
Horizon Pharma plc is a biopharmaceutical company focused on improving patients' lives by identifying, developing, acquiring and commercializing differentiated and accessible medicines that address unmet medical needs. The Company markets seven medicines through its orphan, primary care and rheumatology business units. Horizon's global headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit www.horizonpharma.com. Follow @HZNPplc on Twitter or view careers on our LinkedIn page.

Contacts:
Investors:
John Thomas
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Investor Relations
Investor-relations@horizonpharma.com

Tina Ventura
Vice President, Investor Relations
investor-relations@horizonpharma.com

U.S. Media:
Geoff Curtis
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications
gcurtis@horizonpharma.com

Ireland Media:
Ray Gordon
Gordon MRM
ray@gordonmrm.ie

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