Courtney Thorne

Cooley advised Sword Health, pioneer of the AI Care platform, which uses artificial intelligence to power the delivery of care, on its raise of $130 million in a mix of primary and secondary sales.

Cooley advised Jeito Capital, a leading global independent private equity fund dedicated to biopharma, on Biogen’s agreement to acquire Human Immunology Biosciences (HI-Bio) for $1.15 billion upfront and up to $650 million in potential milestone payments. Jeito began significantly investing in HI-Bio – a privately held, clinical-stage portfolio biotech company focused on targeted therapies for patients with severe immune-mediated diseases – in November 2022. Lawyers Courtney Thorne, Kate Hillier, Kevin Cooper, Ryan Montgomery, Sharon Connaughton and Elizabeth Galvin led the Cooley team advising Jeito.

Cooley advised Autolus – a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation programmed T-cell therapies – on its strategic collaboration with BioNTech, an immunotherapy company pioneering novel therapies for cancer and other serious diseases, to advance both companies’ autologous CAR-T programs toward commercialization, as well as a $350 million underwritten offering.

Cooley advised Alto Neuroscience, a company redefining psychiatry by leveraging individuals’ neurobiology to develop personalized and highly effective medicines and helping patients get better faster, on its $147.9 million initial public offering.

Cooley advised Tectonic Therapeutic, a privately held biotechnology company developing G-protein coupled receptor-targeted therapeutic proteins, on its definitive merger agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction with AVROBIO, a gene therapy company with a purpose to free people from a lifetime of genetic disease. Tectonic also obtained $130.7 million in private financing commitments with a syndicate of new and existing leading life sciences investors in connection with the merger.