Frances Stocks Allen

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I love working closely with my clients to understand their commercial and strategic objectives, and to develop and negotiate transactions which deliver against those goals.

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Hengrui Pharma and GSK Enter Agreement to Develop up to 12 Medicines

July 27, 2025

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.

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Partner, London
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Associate, Hong Kong
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Partner, Colorado
David Wilson
Partner, London
Dr. Xiaozhen (Shawn) Yu
Partner, Washington, DC
Julia R. Brinton
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
David Burns
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Andrew Epstein
Special Counsel, Seattle
Robert Eisenbach
Of Counsel, San Francisco
Navya Dasari
Associate, New York
Rick Jantz
Associate, Santa Monica
Eerik Kukebal
Associate, London
Daniel Millard
Associate, London
Patrick Sharma
Associate, Santa Monica
Zhijing Yu
Associate, Singapore

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AviadoBio Announces Exclusive Option and License Agreement With Astellas

October 11, 2024

Cooley advised AviadoBio, a company focused on gene therapy for neurodegenerative disorders, on its exclusive option and license agreement with Astellas Pharma for AVB-101, an investigational, adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy in Phase 1/2 development for patients with frontotemporal dementia with progranulin mutations (FTD-GRN).

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Frances Stocks Allen
Partner, London
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Partner, New York
Tom Goodman
Partner, London
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Special Counsel, London
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Associate, London

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Ochre Bio Announces Partnership With Boehringer Ingelheim

April 22, 2024

Cooley advised Ochre Bio, a UK-based pioneer in chronic liver disease medicine development with labs in New York and Taipei, on its partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim focused on the discovery and development of novel, first-in-class regenerative treatments for chronic liver diseases, such as late-stage metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) cirrhosis.

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Alan W. Tamarelli
Partner, New York
Simon Amies
Partner, London
Aaron Pomeroy
Partner, Colorado
Frances Stocks Allen
Partner, London
Jiqiang Lin
Associate, New York
Amanda Pacheco
Associate, Palo Alto

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Cooley Advises Quell Therapeutics on its Exclusive Treg Collaboration With AstraZeneca

June 9, 2023

Cooley advised Quell Therapeutics, a leading T-regulatory (Treg) cell therapy biotech company based in London, on its exclusive collaboration with AstraZeneca.

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Kenneth Krisko
Partner, Reston
Frances Stocks Allen
Partner, London
Tom Goodman
Partner, London
Jiqiang Lin
Associate, New York
J. Brian Stalter
Special Counsel, New York
Ellen Dewhurst
Associate, London

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Rankings and accolades

The Legal 500 UK: Rising Stars – Life Sciences and Healthcare (2020 – 2022)

She is highly knowledgeable and always available, with a pragmatic approach, good business acumen and short response times.

The Legal 500 UK

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