Howard Morse

Cooley advised Propella Therapeutics, a privately held biopharmaceutical company that has leveraged a wholly owned proprietary platform that combines medicinal chemistry with lymphatic targeting to create new oncology drugs, on its merger agreement with Astellas Pharma in which Astellas will acquire Propella through a US subsidiary.

Cooley advised Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals, a leading global pharmaceutical company headquartered in China with a focus on research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of innovative and high-quality healthcare products, on its strategic collaboration and exclusive worldwide (excluding mainland China) license agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and global license agreement (excluding the Greater China region and Korea) with Elevar Therapeutics.

Cooley advised TriSalus Life Sciences, an oncology company with a focus on treatments for patients with liver and pancreatic tumors, on its merger with MedTech Acquisition Corporation.

Cooley advised Tentarix Biotherapeutics and three of its subsidiaries on three multiyear collaborations with Gilead Sciences.

Cooley advised Bridge to Life, an organ preservation and perfusion technologies supplier, on its sale of certain assets – including its EVOSS heart and lung and LifeCradle heart perfusion assets – to TransMedics.