Amanda Pacheco

Cooley advised Rooam, a contactless payment platform that integrates directly into existing point of sale systems without adding extra hardware, on its agreement to be acquired by American Express (NYSE: AXP), a globally integrated payments company providing customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.

Cooley advised FutureGen Biopharmaceutical, an innovative biopharmaceutical company committed to providing high-quality innovative biologics for patients with cancer, immune diseases and other diseases, on its license agreement with AbbVie to develop FG-M701, a next generation TL1A antibody for the treatment of IBD currently in preclinical development.

Cooley advised Cidara Therapeutics (Nasdaq: CDTX), a biotechnology company using its proprietary Cloudbreak platform to develop drug-Fc conjugate immunotherapies designed to save lives and improve the standard of care for patients facing serious diseases, on its concurrent $240 million private placement financing and definitive agreement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a Johnson & Johnson Company, to reacquire the exclusive global development and commercial rights to CD388.

Cooley advised Ochre Bio, a UK-based pioneer in chronic liver disease medicine development with labs in New York and Taipei, on its partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim focused on the discovery and development of novel, first-in-class regenerative treatments for chronic liver diseases, such as late-stage metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) cirrhosis.

Cooley advised Tenet Medicines, a development-stage private biotechnology company, on its definitive agreement to be acquired by Eliem Therapeutics, a biotech company focused on developing novel therapies for neuronal excitability disorders to address unmet needs in psychiatry, epilepsy, chronic pain, and other disorders of the peripheral and central nervous systems.