PWP vs AKBA Comparison

Perella Weinberg Partners is an independent advisory firm that provides strategic and financial advice to a wide range of clients. The Company's activities as an investment banking advisory firm constitute a single business segment that provides a range of advisory services, including advice related to strategic and financial decisions, mergers and acquisitions execution, shareholder and defense advisory, financing and capital solutions advice with resources focused on restructuring and liability management, capital markets advisory, private capital placement, as well as specialized underwriting and research services for the energy and related industries.

Akebia Therapeutics Inc is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company. The Company's operating segment is the business of developing and commercializing novel therapeutics for people with kidney disease. The current portfolio of the company includes Auryxia (ferric citrate), a medicine approved and marketed in the United States for the control of serum phosphorus levels in adult patients with dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease and the treatment of iron deficiency anemia, in adult patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease, Vafseo (vadadustat), an oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase, inhibitor approved in Japan for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease, in adult patients, HIF-PH inhibitors in preclinical development.