San Diego – March 8, 2017 – Cooley advised the underwriters on Global Blood Therapeutics’ $143.8 million shelf-takedown offering of 5,867,347 shares of common stock, which includes the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase up to 765,306 additional shares of common stock.

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. acted as sole book-running manager for the offering.

Global Blood Therapeutics, which trades on The NASDAQ Global Select Market as “GBT,” is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing novel therapeutics to treat blood-based disorders with significant unmet need.

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