Sharon Connaughton

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Cooley Advises on Candid Therapeutics’ $370 Million Capital Raise, Three-Way Merger

September 9, 2024

Cooley advised Candid Therapeutics, a biotechnology company dedicated to developing potentially transformative drugs to address autoimmune diseases, on its $370 million debut capital raise and three-way merger with Vignette Bio and TRC 2004.

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Confluent Acquires WarpStream

September 9, 2024

Cooley advised Confluent, a data-streaming platform pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure that sets data in motion, on its acquisition of WarpStream, an Apache Kafka-compatible data-streaming platform.

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Grafana Labs Completes $270 Million Primary and Secondary Transaction

August 21, 2024

Cooley advised Grafana Labs, the company behind ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, on the successful completion of its approximately $270 million primary and secondary transaction.

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Abnormal Security Announces $250 Million Series D at a $5.1 Billion Valuation

August 6, 2024

Cooley advised Abnormal Security, the leader in AI-native human behavior security, on its $250 million Series D financing at a $5.1 billion valuation.

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Nerio Therapeutics Sells to Boehringer Ingelheim for up to $1.3 Billion

July 29, 2024

Cooley advised Nerio Therapeutics, a drug discovery and development company focused on phosphatases, a notoriously difficult class of potentially high-value therapeutic protein targets, on its sale to Boehringer Ingelheim, a biopharmaceutical company active in both human and animal health, for up to $1.3 billion.

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