Denny Xu

Cooley advised Keros Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapeutics to treat a range of patients with disorders linked to dysfunctional signaling of the transforming growth factor-beta family of proteins, on its $375 million capital return program, which represents the culmination of Keros’ strategic review process, including its share purchase agreements to repurchase all shares of its common stock beneficially owned by ADAR1 Capital Management and Pontifax Venture Capital and planned tender offer for up to $194 million in value of shares of its common stock.

Cooley advised InnoCare Pharma, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and commercializing first-in-class and best-in-class drugs for the treatment of cancers and autoimmune diseases with unmet medical needs in China and worldwide, on its transformational license agreement with Zenas BioPharma, granting Zenas global development and commercialization rights to orelabrutinib for multiple sclerosis and across all therapeutic areas other than oncology.

Cooley advised LB Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for the treatment of neuropsychiatric diseases including schizophrenia, on its $285 million upsized initial public offering (IPO).

Cooley advised MaxCyte on its $201.8 million initial public offering of 15,525,000 shares of common stock, which includes the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. MaxCyte, whose securities now trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “MXCT,” also trades on the London Stock Exchange under the symbols "MXCT" and "MXCN." MaxCyte is a leading provider of cell-engineering platform technologies. Partners Christian Plaza, Brian Leaf and Claire Keast-Butler led the Cooley team.

Cooley advised the underwriters on Verve Therapeutics’ $306.7 million initial public offering of 16,141,157 shares of common stock. J.P. Morgan, Jefferies, Guggenheim Securities and William Blair acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. Verve Therapeutics, whose securities now trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol VERV, is a biotech company pioneering a new approach to the care of cardiovascular disease with single-course gene-editing medicines. Partners Brent Siler, Div Gupta and Richard Segal led the Cooley team.