Matthew Pavao

Cooley advised Lexeo Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company advancing gene therapy candidates for genetically defined cardiovascular diseases and a genetically defined subgroup of Alzheimer’s disease, on its approximately $100 million initial public offering.

Cooley advised Immatics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company active in the discovery and development of T cell-redirecting cancer immunotherapies, on its strategic collaboration with Moderna.

Cooley advised Poseida Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, on its strategic collaboration and license agreement with Roche. Lawyers Ken Krisko, Marya Postner, Bin Wang, Hajra Nashin and Brendan Haberle led the Cooley team advising Poseida. 

Cooley advised the underwriters on Reata Pharmaceuticals' $505 million follow-on offering of 2,760,000 shares of Class A common stock, which includes the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. Citigroup, Jefferies, SVB Leerink and Stifel acted as the joint book-running managers for the offering. Cantor, Baird and Ladenburg Thalmann acted as co-managers for the offering. Partners Rich Segal, Div Gupta and Charlie Kim led the Cooley team.

Cooley advised ERYTECH Pharma on its $143.7 million global offering of an aggregate of 6,180,137 ordinary shares, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. The global offering consisted of a US IPO of 5,389,021 American Depositary Shares, each representing one ordinary share and a concurrent private placement in Europe and other countries outside of the US and Canada of 791,116 ordinary shares.