 Acacia Research Corporation we, Acacia or the Company Nasdaq: ACTG, a publicly-traded investor in absolute return assets, today announced that it had entered into an agreement with Link Fund Solutions Limited LFS to purchase shares in up to 19 public and private life sciences companies from LF Equity Income Fund the Fund for a total consideration of up to 223.9 million. The acquisition of the private companies is subject to the waiver or completion of customary pre-emption processes of such companies. 