Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AQST), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on identifying, developing and commercializing differentiated products to address unmet medical needs, today announced that Lori J. Braender, Esq. will join the company as Senior Vice President, General Counsel effective as of September 10.

"We are pleased to welcome Lori," said Keith J. Kendall, Chief Executive Officer of Aquestive Therapeutics. "With her knowledge and familiarity of the company, and the depth of her professional experience, Lori will be an important part of the leadership of Aquestive."

Braender joins Aquestive from a 35-year career at Day Pitney LLP, where she was most recently Chair of the Life Sciences Practice Group. In that role, she specialized in advising clients in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device companies, hospitals and healthcare institutions on regulatory requirements, contractual arrangements, and other business considerations connected with life science and healthcare transactions.

Ms.Braender added, "I'm honored to join the Aquestive team. The company's unique business model and technology deliver meaningful solutions to patients, and I Iook forward to contributing to the success of these efforts."

About Aquestive Therapeutics Aquestive Therapeutics is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on identifying, developing and commercializing differentiated products to address unmet medical needs. Aquestive Therapeutics has a late-stage proprietary product pipeline focused on the treatment of CNS diseases, and is working to advance orally-administered complex molecules that it believes can be alternatives to invasively-administered standard of care therapies. As the leader in developing and delivering drugs via its PharmFilm® technology, Aquestive Therapeutics also collaborates with pharmaceutical partners to bring new molecules to market in differentiated and highly-marketable dosage forms.