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Accel and General Catalyst Lead £85 Million Investment in Monzo

November 7, 2018

Cooley advised Accel and General Catalyst as lead investors in UK digital bank Monzo’s £85 million fund raising. The investment brought Monzo’s valuation to more than £1 billion, creating the UK’s latest unicorn.

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Aaron Archer
Partner, London
Chris Coulter
Partner, London
Leo Spicer-Phelps
Associate, London
Harry Calkin
Associate, London
Chris Stack
Partner, London
Mark Jones
Associate, London

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Cooley Advises SoftBank on Improbable’s $502 Million Funding

May 26, 2017

Cooley advised SoftBank as the lead investor on London-based VR company Improbable’s $502 million Series B funding round. A transatlantic Cooley team worked on this record-breaking transaction.

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Matthew Bartus
Partner, San Francisco
Ryan Naftulin
Partner, London
Adam Ruttenberg
Partner, Washington, DC
Lauren Creel
Partner, Palo Alto
Harry Calkin
Associate, London
Paula Holland
Partner, London
Chris Coulter
Partner, London
Aaron Archer
Partner, London
Chris Stack
Partner, London
Daniel Sellwood
Associate, London
Harriet Jones
Associate, London

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Immunocore Limited Series A $320 Million Financing

July 20, 2015

Cooley advised Immunocore on its $320 million (GBP £205 million) Series A financing round, the largest ever for a European biotech. The oversubscribed round includes new investors, Woodford Investment Management, Malin Corp., Eli Lilly and RTW Investments, as well as a number of new and existing investors of Immunocore.

"This deal is indicative of why Cooley, a leader in tech and life sciences globally, launched in London," said Justin Stock, Cooley's UK managing partner. "We are delighted to be advising on the Immunocore deal, which is the largest private life sciences financing in Europe, and which has the potential to be a game-changer in finding a cure for cancer."

Nicola Maguire, London-based life sciences partner at Cooley, commented: "We were delighted to work with Immunocore on this pivotal transaction for the company. Immunocore has the potential to become one of the world's leading biotechnology companies and we are proud Cooley can support the company in realising this mission."

Immunocore is a world-leading biotechnology company developing novel T cell receptor (TCR)-based biological drugs to treat cancer, viral infections and autoimmune disease.

The proceeds will enable Immunocore to further accelerate its pipeline of ImmTACs (Immune mobilising mTCR Against Cancer). ImmTACs are a new class of bispecific biologics which have the potential to treat a broad range of solid tumours either as monotherapies or in combination with other therapies to create best in class treatment regimes. In addition to delivering on its well-established partnerships, Immunocore will focus, in particular, on progressing its lead proprietary programme, IMCgp100, which produced positive Phase I/IIa trial data in April 2015 in patients with advanced metastatic cutaneous and ocular melanoma.

Update: July 29, 2015 – Fidelity Joins Record Life Sciences Immunocore Financing

Fidelity Management & Research is now also participating in the record $320 million (£205 million) Immunocore deal, the largest private life sciences financing in Europe to date.

Fidelity has participated in the $320 million investment syndicate that includes Woodford Investment Management, Malin Corp., Eli Lilly, RTW Investments, other unnamed investors and existing shareholders.

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Nicola Maguire
Partner, London
John Wilkinson
Partner, London
Marc Recht
Partner, Boston
Div Gupta
Partner, New York
Aaron Archer
Partner, London

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General Catalyst on its investments as part of both the $275 million Series E and $385 million Series F financings for Deliveroo

August 19, 2016

General Catalyst on its investments as part of both the $275 million Series E and $385 million Series F financings for Deliveroo, the on-demand food delivery service

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Aaron Archer
Partner, London
Leo Spicer-Phelps
Associate, London
Chris Stack
Partner, London
Harry Calkin
Associate, London

Autodesk Inc. in its $172.5 million takeover of Delcam plc

August 2, 2014

Advised Autodesk in its $172.5 million takeover of Delcam.

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Aaron Archer
Partner, London
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Rankings and accolades

The Legal 500 UK: Next Generation Partner - Venture Capital (2022)
Chambers & Partners (UK): Leading Individual - Venture Capital Investment (2022)

Aaron Archer is a real powerhouse. He drives transactions hard and always keeps the commercial interests of all parties top of mind.

Corporate and Commercial – Venture Capital - Legal 500