Olya Antle

Associate
oantle@cooley.com
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I am an ardent advocate for my clients focused on developing lasting partnerships built on trust, collaboration and a steadfast commitment to excellence.

About Olya

Olya specializes in business restructuring and represents a broad range of actors in complex national and cross-border restructuring proceedings and financial litigation matters. Olya frequently advises private and public companies and their boards of directors on a wide range of solvency-related matters, working closely with her clients to develop new and creative solutions for overcoming challenges that arise in distressed situations. A frequent speaker on international insolvency topics, Olya serves as one of the International Insolvency Institute’s delegates to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group V, and is a member of the World Bank’s Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes Task Force.

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Foreign Languages

Experience

Gamida Cell Completes International Restructuring

Gamida Cell Completes International Restructuring

June 21, 2024

Cooley advised long-time biotech client, Gamida Cell Ltd., and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Gamida Cell Inc. (collectively, the “Company”), in the Company’s global restructuring through a novel use of debt arrangement proceedings in Israel combined with Chapter 15 and 11 proceedings in the United States. 

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Michael Klein
Partner, New York
Evan Lazerowitz
Associate, New York
Olya Antle
Associate, Washington, DC
Ibe Alozie
Associate, Washington, DC
Ben Thomson
Associate, Chicago
Dayne Brown
Associate, New York
Erin J. Kirchner
Partner, Chicago
Div Gupta
Partner, New York
Daniel I. Goldberg
Partner, New York
Mateus Kaba Aboud
Associate, Chicago
Jeremiah P. Ledwidge
Associate, New York
Joyce Li
Associate, Chicago
Yoni Horn
Associate, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Christopher Nickas
Associate, New York
Mischi a Marca
Partner, San Francisco

Related Practices & Industries

Business Restructuring
Public Companies
Debt Finance
Life Sciences

Brii Biosciences Announces Agreements to Acquire VBI Vaccines’ IP Rights in BRII-179

Brii Biosciences Announces Agreements to Acquire VBI Vaccines’ IP Rights in BRII-179

February 14, 2024

Cooley advised Brii Biosciences on its agreements with VBI Vaccines (NASDAQ: VBIV) to ensure expansion and control of future clinical and commercial supplies of BRII-179, a late-stage clinical asset in Brii Bio’s hepatitis B virus functional cure portfolio. With operations in major biotechnology centers in the US and China, Brii Bio (HKSE: 2137) is a Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed biotechnology company developing therapies to improve patient health and choice across diseases with high unmet needs.

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Related contacts

Yiming Liu
Partner in Charge – Shanghai, Shanghai
Rama Padmanabhan
Partner, San Diego
Rajdeep Roger Bains
Associate, San Diego
Jason Savich
Partner, San Francisco
Lila Hope
Partner, Palo Alto
Michael Klein
Partner, New York
Michelle Garcia Schulman
Partner, Reston
Matthew S. Scarano
Associate, San Diego
Jameson Davis
Associate, Boston
Kaiting Yang
Associate, Hong Kong
Ross Eberly
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Jeffrey J. Tolin
Partner, New York
Michael Yu
Partner in Charge – Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Robert Eisenbach
Of Counsel, San Francisco
Rena Kaminsky
Special Counsel, Palo Alto
Olya Antle
Associate, Washington, DC
Adrienne Beaudoin Deshmukh
Associate, Reston
Yoni Horn
Associate, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Patrick Sharma
Associate, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Lunga Su
Associate, Shanghai
Yiying Wang
Associate, Shanghai

Related Practices & Industries

Mergers and Acquisitions
Life Sciences Corporate Partnering and Licensing
Life Sciences
Biotechnology
Debt Finance
Tax
Real Estate
Labor and Employment
Business Restructuring
Capital Markets
Asia

Admissions and credentials

District of Columbia

Virginia

Rankings and accolades

Super Lawyers – Rising Stars

Virginia Business Magazine, Legal Elite – Bankruptcy/Creditors' Rights

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights, 2024

Memberships and affiliations

International Insolvency Institute, NextGen Program, executive committee member

International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), Programming Co-Chair

American Bankruptcy Institute, member

International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL)

Webcast: 2020 Virtual Federal Procurement Institute

Olya Antle presented on a panel entitled "Government Construction Contracts in a Recession or Economic Downturn – How to Protect Your Rights & Determine Your Remedies."

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