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Decibel Bio Closes $12 Million Financing Round

March 5, 2025

Cooley advised Decibel Bio, a plant biotechnology company building the world’s first crop epigenetic platform, on its $12 million financing round. The funding will be used to advance Decibel’s proprietary platform for both reading and writing the plant epigenome to create crop varieties with higher yield, efficiency and resilience to a changing environment.

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Frederick Dorey
Special Counsel, Palo Alto
Katie Weeks
Associate, Palo Alto

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Women-Led Atalan Tech Secures Seed Financing

October 5, 2023

Cooley advised Atalan Tech, a women-led, mission-driven company at the forefront of artificial intelligence technology for predicting and preventing clinician burnout and turnover in healthcare systems, on its $2.5 million seed financing.

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Josh Seidenfeld
Partner, Palo Alto
John T. Stellini
Associate, Palo Alto
Katie Weeks
Associate, Palo Alto
Daniel Y. Lee
Associate, Palo Alto

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Apollo Endosurgery to Be Acquired by Boston Scientific

February 1, 2023

Cooley advised Apollo Endosurgery, a medical device company, on its agreement to be acquired by Boston Scientific in an all-cash transaction with an enterprise value of approximately $615 million.

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Partner, Palo Alto
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Associate, Palo Alto
Megan Browdie
Partner, Washington, DC
Ross Eberly
Partner, Santa Monica
Sarah Lightdale
Partner, New York
Howard Morse
Senior Counsel, Washington, DC
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Partner, San Francisco
Charity Williams
Partner, San Diego
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Special Counsel, Palo Alto
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Of Counsel, Washington, DC
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Special Counsel, Washington, DC
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Partner, Brussels
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Mark Windfeld-Hansen
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Special Counsel, Washington, DC
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Associate, Shanghai
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Associate, Colorado
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Edmond Lay
Partner, San Diego
Amanda Pacheco
Associate, Palo Alto
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Associate, Washington, DC
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Associate, San Francisco
Rubin Waranch
Associate, Colorado
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