Alan W. Tamarelli

Cooley advised Keros Therapeutics (Nasdaq: KROS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapeutics to treat a wide range of patients with disorders linked to dysfunctional signaling of the transforming growth factor-beta family of proteins, on its exclusive global development and commercialization license agreement with Takeda Pharmaceuticals to advance elritercept.

Cooley advised Archon Biosciences, a biotechnology company pioneering computationally designed antibody cages (AbCs) to unlock powerful therapeutic targets beyond the reach of existing modalities, on its $20 million seed financing led by Madrona Ventures.

Cooley advised AviadoBio, a company focused on gene therapy for neurodegenerative disorders, on its exclusive option and license agreement with Astellas Pharma for AVB-101, an investigational, adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy in Phase 1/2 development for patients with frontotemporal dementia with progranulin mutations (FTD-GRN).

Cooley advised Ionis Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: IONS), a biotechnology research company inventing medicines that bring better futures to people with serious diseases, on its $500.3 million underwritten public offering of common stock.

Cooley advised Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in China, on its licensing of global rights (excluding Greater China) for the development, production and commercialization of three of its proprietary glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) drugs to Hercules CM Newco, a newly established Delaware company.