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AviadoBio Announces Exclusive Option and License Agreement With Astellas

October 11, 2024

Cooley advised AviadoBio, a company focused on gene therapy for neurodegenerative disorders, on its exclusive option and license agreement with Astellas Pharma for AVB-101, an investigational, adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy in Phase 1/2 development for patients with frontotemporal dementia with progranulin mutations (FTD-GRN).

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Frances Stocks Allen
Partner, London
Alan W. Tamarelli
Partner, New York
Tom Goodman
Partner, London
Joe Sandys
Associate, London
Mark Jones
Associate, London

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EyeBiotech Limited Announces $130 Million Series A

November 14, 2023

Cooley advised EyeBiotech Limited, a privately held, clinical-stage ophthalmology biotechnology company working to deliver a new generation of therapies for eye diseases, on the close of an extension to its Series A financing, bringing the total raised to date to $130 million.

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Tom Goodman
Partner, London
Dr. Michael Tuscan
Partner, Washington, DC
Christian Plaza
Partner, Reston
Nicola Maguire
Partner, London
Karen Tsai
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Annie Froehlich
Partner, Washington, DC
Dr. Bonnie Weiss McLeod
Of Counsel, Washington, DC
Kerry Corrigan
Associate, London
Ellen Dewhurst
Associate, London

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Cooley Advises Quell Therapeutics on its Exclusive Treg Collaboration With AstraZeneca

June 9, 2023

Cooley advised Quell Therapeutics, a leading T-regulatory (Treg) cell therapy biotech company based in London, on its exclusive collaboration with AstraZeneca.

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Kenneth Krisko
Partner, Reston
Frances Stocks Allen
Partner, London
Tom Goodman
Partner, London
Jiqiang Lin
Associate, New York
J. Brian Stalter
Special Counsel, New York
Ellen Dewhurst
Associate, London

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Exscientia – $510.4 Million IPO

October 6, 2021

Cooley advised Exscientia, an AI-driven pharmatech company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, on its $510.4 million initial public offering, including concurrent private placements to SoftBank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Partners David Boles, Claire Keast-Butler, Div Gupta and Marc Recht led the Cooley team advising Exscientia.

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Claire Keast-Butler
Co-Partner in Charge – London, London
Div Gupta
Partner, New York
Marc Recht
Partner, Boston
David Wilson
Partner, London
Chris Stack
Partner, London
Dayne Brown
Associate, New York
Meg Begur
Associate, Washington, DC
Nicola Squire
Partner, London
Jack Jones
Associate, London
Tom Goodman
Partner, London
Paula Holland
Partner, London
Aaron Pomeroy
Partner, Colorado
Calvin Lee
Associate, New York
Courtney Thorne
Partner, London

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Exscientia Inks Investment of up to $525 Million

May 10, 2021

Cooley advised Exscientia, a clinical-stage pharmatech company, on its $225 million Series D funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, which is also providing an additional $300 million equity commitment that can be drawn at Exscientia’s discretion. Lawyers Claire Keast-Butler and Tom Goodman led the Cooley team advising Exscientia.

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Claire Keast-Butler
Co-Partner in Charge – London, London
Tom Goodman
Partner, London
Paula Holland
Partner, London
Marc Recht
Partner, Boston

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