Cooley Advises Medidata Solutions on Agreement to Acquire Shyft

Palo Alto – July 26, 2018 – Cooley recently advised Medidata Solutions on its definitive agreement to acquire Shyft Analytics, a leading cloud data platform for life sciences. Partner Jon Gavenman led the Cooley team advising Medidata.

According to Medidata, the combined platform seamlessly delivers market-leading applications, services and proven data science capabilities, powered by the largest global pool of research data, companies’ own CRM data, third-party commercial data and real-world data sources.

Medidata’s unified platform, pioneering analytics and unrivaled expertise power the development of new therapies for more than 1,000 pharmaceutical companies, biotech, medical device firms, academic medical centers and contract research organizations around the world.

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