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Enavate Sciences Co-Leads Normunity’s $75 Million Series B

January 13, 2025

Cooley advised Enavate Sciences, a top investment firm, as the co-lead investor in the $75 million Series B financing round of Normunity, a biotechnology company creating novel anticancer therapies. Lawyers Marc Recht, Brandon Fenn and Barry Kuang led the Cooley team advising Enavate Sciences.

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Marc Recht
Partner, Boston
Brandon W. Fenn
Partner, New York
Barry Kuang
Associate, Boston
Liz Gold
Associate, New York
Stephanie Gentile
Partner, New York

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Enavate Sciences Invests in Aviceda Therapeutics $207.5 Million Series C

January 7, 2025

Cooley advised Enavate Sciences, a top investment firm, on its participation in the $207.5 million Series C financing round of Aviceda Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing next-generation immunomodulators. Lawyers Marc Recht, Brandon Fenn and Barry Kuang led the Cooley team advising Enavate Sciences.

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Marc Recht
Partner, Boston
Brandon W. Fenn
Partner, New York
Barry Kuang
Associate, Boston

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Keros Therapeutics Announces Ex-China Global License Agreement With Takeda

December 3, 2024

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.

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Alan W. Tamarelli
Partner, New York
Ryan Sansom
Partner, Boston
Marc Recht
Partner, Boston
David Burns
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Navya Dasari
Associate, New York
Amanda Pacheco
Associate, Palo Alto
Bartholomäus Regenhardt
Associate, Brussels
Stella Sarma
Partner, Brussels
Jan Lang
Associate, Brussels

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COUR Pharmaceuticals Secures $105 Million Series A

January 30, 2024

Cooley advised COUR Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of first-in-class disease-modifying therapies designed to induce antigen-specific tolerance for immune-mediated diseases, on the close of its $105 million Series A financing.

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Winston Gu
Partner, Chicago
Marc Recht
Partner, Boston
Christina T. Roupas
Partner in Charge – Chicago, Chicago
Yvan-Claude Pierre
Partner, New York
Grant L. Page
Associate, Santa Monica
Andrew Mettry
Associate, Chicago
Jeffrey J. Tolin
Partner, New York
Blake Martell
Partner, San Francisco
John Sellers
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Alan W. Tamarelli
Partner, New York
Bin Wang
Special Counsel, Palo Alto
Annie Froehlich
Partner, Washington, DC
Erica Russell
Associate, San Francisco
Calvin Lee
Associate, New York
Andrew Bae
Associate, Washington, DC
Zack Gong
Associate, Shanghai
Miriam Petrillo
Partner, Chicago

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Tectonic Therapeutic Announces Merger With AVROBIO, $130.7 Million Private Financing Commitments

January 30, 2024

Cooley advised Tectonic Therapeutic, a privately held biotechnology company developing G-protein coupled receptor-targeted therapeutic proteins, on its definitive merger agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction with AVROBIO, a gene therapy company with a purpose to free people from a lifetime of genetic disease. Tectonic also obtained $130.7 million in private financing commitments with a syndicate of new and existing leading life sciences investors in connection with the merger.

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Miguel J. Vega
Partner, Boston
Marc Recht
Partner, Boston
Courtney Thorne
Partner, London
Michael Rohr
Partner, Boston
Dr. Matthew Pavao
Partner, Boston
Nyron J. Persaud
Partner, New York
Phil Mitchell
Partner, New York
Dr. Chen Chen
Partner, Boston
Sarah Lightdale
Partner, New York
Megan Browdie
Partner, Washington, DC
Francis Wheeler
Senior Counsel, Colorado
Mark Windfeld-Hansen
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
William Corcoran
Of Counsel, Boston
Natasha Leskovsek
Of Counsel, Washington, DC
Ryan Montgomery
Partner, Boston
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Chambers USA: Capital Markets – Massachusetts (2014 – 2024)

The Legal 500 US: Healthcare: Life Sciences (2013, 2016, 2020)

Who's Who Legal: Life Sciences (2017, 2018)

Super Lawyers: Rising Star (2007, 2010 – 2013)

Boston Business Journal: Biotech IPO (2015)


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