Nathaniel Hearn Jr.

A Cooley team advised Horizon Therapeutics, a specialty biopharmaceutical company, on its agreement to be acquired by Amgen. The approximately $28 billion merger would represent the third-largest all-cash transaction in the pharmaceutical sector in history and the biggest healthcare deal of 2022.

Cooley advised Yieldstreet, a leading private market investing platform, on its acquisition of Cadre, an online real estate-focused investment platform that serves institutional and high net worth investors.

Cooley advised MadCap Software, a multichannel content authoring, management and publishing solutions provider, on its acquisition of Xyleme, which offers intelligent content management for the development, control, delivery, and syndication of vital proprietary learning and development content across the enterprise.

Cooley advised RayzeBio, a targeted radiopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline against solid tumor targets, on its upsized $357.6 million initial public offering.

Cooley advised Sprout Social, a social media management software company, on its $140 million acquisition of Tagger Media, a top influencer marketing platform, and a concurrent $100 million secured debt facility, which will be partially used to fund the acquisition.