Dr. Bill Christiansen

Cooley advised Takara Bio, a global biotechnology and life sciences company headquartered in Shiga, Japan, on its acquisition of Curio Bioscience, a pioneering company in the field of spatial genomics.

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.

Cooley advised ARCH Venture Partners, which co-led a $1 billion Series A funding round in Xaira Therapeutics. Partners Colleen Badgley, Danielle Naftulin and Dave Peinsipp led the Cooley team advising ARCH, a venture capital firm catalyzing discoveries that prevent, detect and cure disease.

Cooley advised Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals, a leading global pharmaceutical company headquartered in China with a focus on research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of innovative and high-quality healthcare products, on its strategic collaboration and exclusive worldwide (excluding mainland China) license agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and global license agreement (excluding the Greater China region and Korea) with Elevar Therapeutics.

Cooley advised J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, BofA Securities and TD Cowen, representatives of the several underwriters, in the $1.27 billion follow-on offering by argenx SE, a global immunology company.