Alan W. Tamarelli

Cooley advised Hengrui Pharma, a global pharmaceutical company, on its up to $12.5 billion agreement with GSK to develop up to 12 medicines to complement GSKs extensive respiratory, immunology and inflammation (RI&I) and oncology pipeline.

Cooley advised Somite AI, a techbio company leveraging foundation models and proprietary artificial intelligence to accelerate human cell therapy development, on the close of its $47 million Series A.

Cooley advised Sirius Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech company developing innovative small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapies for global markets, on its strategic partnership to develop and commercialize siRNA therapies with CRISPR Therapeutics (Nasdaq: CRSP), a biopharmaceutical company focused on creating transformative gene-based medicines for serious diseases.

Cooley advised Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals (Hengrui Pharma), a global pharmaceutical company focused on scientific and technological innovation, on its exclusive license agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany for the commercialization in mainland China of SHR7280, an oral small-molecule gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor antagonist, for indications including medical-assisted reproduction and gynecology.

Cooley advised Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals (Hengrui Pharma), a global pharmaceutical company focused on scientific and technological innovation, on its exclusive license agreement with Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the US and Canada, for HRS-5346, an investigational oral small molecule lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), inhibitor currently being evaluated in a phase 2 clinical trial in China.