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Alumis Announces Merger With ACELYRIN

February 6, 2025

Cooley advised Alumis (Nasdaq: ALMS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapies using a precision approach to optimize clinical outcomes and significantly improve the lives of patients with immune-mediated diseases, on its definitive agreement with ACELYRIN to merge in an all-stock transaction.

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Associate, Palo Alto
Christine Turner
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Shaun (Tianjie) Wang
Associate, New York
Megan Browdie
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Lauren Creel
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Ross Eberly
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Stephanie Gentile
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Dr. Kate Hillier
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Sarah Lightdale
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Phil Mitchell
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Jeremy Morrison
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Alessandra Murata
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Jennifer Raab
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Patrick Van Eecke
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Natasha Leskovsek
Of Counsel, Washington, DC
Julia R. Brinton
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Andrew Epstein
Special Counsel, Seattle
Caroline Vu
Special Counsel, Palo Alto
Christopher Andrews
Associate, New York
Dannielle Antone
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Elizabeth Caruso
Associate, New York
Tamara Chin Loy
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Navya Dasari
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Joshua Elefant
Associate, Palo Alto
Winda Fung
Associate, Santa Monica
Gary Warren Hunt III
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Rachel F. Katz
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Wyatt Kernell
Associate, Colorado
Kristina Krasnikova
Associate, Palo Alto
Sunny J. Levine
Associate, Colorado
Amanda Lindner
Associate, New York
Jayne M. Munger
Associate, New York
Julianne Orr
Associate, San Francisco
Michael Pelle
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Breanna Qin
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Bartholomäus Regenhardt
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Jesse Schulman
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Cooley Advises on Candid Therapeutics’ $370 Million Capital Raise, Three-Way Merger

September 9, 2024

Cooley advised Candid Therapeutics, a biotechnology company dedicated to developing potentially transformative drugs to address autoimmune diseases, on its $370 million debut capital raise and three-way merger with Vignette Bio and TRC 2004.

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Carlos Ramirez
Partner, San Diego
Edmond Lay
Partner, San Diego
Matthew D. Silverman
Special Counsel, Santa Monica
Ben Beerle
Partner, San Francisco
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Associate, Santa Monica
Jayden Martinez
Associate, Colorado
Jack Whitaker
Associate, San Diego
Dillon Martinson
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Stephanie Gentile
Partner, New York
Calvin Lee
Associate, New York
Megan Browdie
Partner, Washington, DC
Nicholas Orr
Associate, Los Angeles
Sharon Connaughton
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Patricia Myers
Paralegal Specialist, Colorado
Linh Nguyen
Associate, San Diego
Mark Windfeld-Hansen
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Kate Walther
Paralegal Specialist, San Diego
John Sellers
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
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Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9 Billion Transaction With Permira

May 13, 2024

Cooley advised Accel, a long-standing investor of Squarespace, in connection with Squarespace’s definitive agreement to go private by Permira in an approximately $6.9 billion all-cash transaction.

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Sazerac Agrees to Acquire BuzzBallz

March 20, 2024

Cooley advised Sazerac, one of the world’s largest distilled spirits companies, on its agreement to acquire BuzzBallz, a woman-owned and family-operated distillery, winery and brewery in Texas.

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Todd Gluth
Partner, San Diego
Kathleen Goodhart
Partner, San Francisco
Len Jacoby
Partner, New York
Jason Kent
Partner, New York
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Partner, Santa Monica
Howard Morse
Senior Counsel, Washington, DC
Stacey A. Bradford
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
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Partner, Brussels
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Associate, Boston
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Special Counsel, New York
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Associate, San Francisco
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RayzeBio Signs Approximately $4.1 Billion Acquisition Agreement With Bristol Myers Squibb

December 26, 2023

Cooley advised RayzeBio, a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical therapeutics (RPT) company with an innovation-leading position in actinium-based RPTs and a pipeline of potentially first-in-class and best-in-class drug development programs, on its definitive agreement to be acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb.

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Associate, Seattle
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Associate, San Francisco
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Christine S. Kim
Associate, San Diego
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Associate, Reston
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Of Counsel, Washington, DC
Phil Mitchell
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Partner, Washington, DC
David Fletcher
Partner, Washington, DC
Rebecca Ross
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
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Special Counsel, Washington, DC
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Associate, Washington, DC
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Tony P. Guan
Associate, Santa Monica
Ross Eberly
Partner, Santa Monica
Eileen Leman
Associate, Los Angeles
Todd Gluth
Partner, San Diego
Jeffrey J. Tolin
Partner, New York
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Partner, Washington, DC
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