Courtney Thorne

Cooley advised Abivax, a clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing therapeutics that harness the body’s natural regulatory mechanisms to modulate the immune response in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases, on its $235.8 million initial public offering.

Cooley advised the underwriters in Merus’ $172.5 million follow-on offering. Jefferies, BofA Securities, Guggenheim Securities and William Blair acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. Merus is a clinical-stage oncology company developing innovative, full-length human bispecific and trispecific antibody therapeutics, referred to as Multiclonics. Partners Denny Won, Courtney Thorne and Div Gupta led the Cooley team.

Cooley advised CinCor Pharma on its upsized $212 million initial public offering of 13,290,813 shares of common stock, which included a partial exercise of the underwriter’s option to purchase additional shares of common stock. CinCor, whose shares now trade on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol CINC, is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing its lead clinical candidate, CIN-107, for the treatment of hypertension and other cardio-renal diseases. CinCor’s IPO was one of the first IPOs of 2022. Partners Ryan Sansom, Div Gupta and Courtney Thorne led the Cooley team.

Cooley advised Exscientia, an AI-driven pharmatech company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, on its $510.4 million initial public offering, including concurrent private placements to SoftBank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Partners David Boles, Claire Keast-Butler, Div Gupta and Marc Recht led the Cooley team advising Exscientia.

Cooley advised Finch Therapeutics on its $127.5 million initial public offering of 7,500,000 shares of common stock. Finch Therapeutics, whose securities now trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol FNCH, is a clinical-stage microbiome therapeutics company. Partners Div Gupta and Ryan Sansom led the Cooley team.