Courtney Thorne

Cooley advised Alto Neuroscience, a company redefining psychiatry by leveraging individuals’ neurobiology to develop personalized and highly effective medicines and helping patients get better faster, on its $147.9 million initial public offering.

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.

Cooley advised Abivax, a clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing therapeutics that harness the body’s natural regulatory mechanisms to modulate the immune response in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases, on its $235.8 million initial public offering.

Cooley advised the underwriters in Merus’ $172.5 million follow-on offering. Jefferies, BofA Securities, Guggenheim Securities and William Blair acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. Merus is a clinical-stage oncology company developing innovative, full-length human bispecific and trispecific antibody therapeutics, referred to as Multiclonics. Partners Denny Won, Courtney Thorne and Div Gupta led the Cooley team.

Cooley advised CinCor Pharma on its upsized $212 million initial public offering of 13,290,813 shares of common stock, which included a partial exercise of the underwriter’s option to purchase additional shares of common stock. CinCor, whose shares now trade on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol CINC, is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing its lead clinical candidate, CIN-107, for the treatment of hypertension and other cardio-renal diseases. CinCor’s IPO was one of the first IPOs of 2022. Partners Ryan Sansom, Div Gupta and Courtney Thorne led the Cooley team.