MiMedx Files Lawsuit Related To Short Seller Attacks

MARIETTA, Ga., Oct. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- MiMedx Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDXG), the leading biopharmaceutical company developing and marketing regenerative and therapeutic biologics utilizing human placental tissue allografts and patent-protected processes for multiple sectors of healthcare, announced today that the Company and one of its employees have filed a lawsuit against Viceroy Research and Sparrow Fund Research LP a/k/a Aurelius Value, John Fichthorn, BR Dialectic Capital Management, LLC, and "Does" 1-10, for libel, slander, defamation, false light, and tortious interference with business relations. 

Given the number of claims being brought against these defendants, the Company has posted a copy of its lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The entirety of the posted lawsuit can be found on the MiMedx website, www.mimedx.com, by clicking on the tab "Short Selling Commentary" found on the homepage.

Parker H. "Pete" Petit, CEO, stated, "We contend the defendants knowingly concocted and disseminated false statements against MiMedx and our employees to our shareholders, the investment community and the public at large. To manipulate the market and serve their financial interest in driving down the price of MiMedx stock, they made these misleading statements. In their baseless statements, they either purposely omitted facts or context favorable to MiMedx, made suggestions concerning the Company that ran counter to the facts known by the defendants, or refused to do any informational and fact-finding due diligence, but just published any information that supported their conspired short thesis."

Bill Taylor, President and COO, added, "In our press release of September 29, 2017, we alerted our shareholders to the document we posted on the MiMedx website to expose the false and misleading information distributed by Viceroy Research and Aurelius Value. We encourage everyone to thoroughly read that document to gain the appropriate insight into the volume of misleading information, outright lies and libel against innocent individuals and the Company these organizations or persons have stooped to publish. In this document, we have posted numerous examples that easily discredit their statements."

"We believe these types of illegal short attacks are ultimately short term in nature when the fundamentals of a business such as MiMedx are strong.  Eventually, the constant outstanding performance delivered by MiMedx cannot be ignored.  Unfortunately, in the meantime, honest shareholders may be deceived and harmed by the loss of their investment value, while dishonest individuals and entities are able to profit through  manipulation," concluded Petit.

About MiMedx 

MiMedx® is the leading biopharmaceutical company developing and marketing regenerative and therapeutic biologics utilizing human placental tissue allografts with patent-protected processes for multiple sectors of healthcare. "Innovations in Regenerative Medicine" is the framework behind our mission to give physicians products and tissues to help the body heal itself.  We process the human placental tissue utilizing our proprietary PURION® Process among other processes, to produce safe and effective allografts.   MiMedx proprietary processing methodology employs aseptic processing techniques in addition to terminal sterilization.  MiMedx is the leading supplier of placental tissue, having supplied over 1,000,000 allografts to date for application in the Wound Care, Burn, Surgical, Orthopedic, Spine, Sports Medicine, Ophthalmic and Dental sectors of healthcare. For additional information, please visit www.mimedx.com.

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SOURCE MiMedx Group, Inc.