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Cooley Secures Win for Sequenom Board in Securities Class Action

September 12, 2023

Cooley represented the former board of directors of Sequenom, a molecular diagnostics company, in a nearly seven-year-long securities class action brought by the company’s former investors.

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Koji Fukumura
Partner, San Diego
Peter Adams
Partner, San Diego
Sarah Lightdale
Partner, New York
Barrett J. Anderson
Associate, San Diego
Dylan Scott
Associate, San Diego

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Travere Sells Bile Acid Product Portfolio to Mirum

July 18, 2023

Cooley advised Travere Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company, on its definitive agreement to sell its bile acid product portfolio to Mirum Pharmaceuticals.

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Rama Padmanabhan
Partner, San Diego
Lindsey O'Crump
Associate, Washington DC
Charity Williams
Partner, San Diego
John Forrest
Associate, Boston
Melissa Meza
Associate, San Diego
Jacqueline Grise
Partner, Washington DC
David Burns
Special Counsel, Washington DC
Amanda Griggs
Associate, New York
Jeffrey J. Tolin
Partner, New York
Ross Eberly
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Natasha Leskovsek
Of Counsel, Washington DC
Peter Adams
Partner, San Diego
Rachel Thorn
Partner, New York
Alessandra Murata
Partner, Palo Alto
Cara Buchicchio
Associate, New York
Tony P. Guan
Associate, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Lei Shen
Partner, Chicago
Allison Kutner
Associate, New York
Loriane Sangaré-Vayssac
Associate, Brussels
Patrick Van Eecke
Partner, Brussels
Wyatt Kernell
Associate, New York
Asa Henin
Special Counsel, San Diego

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ACELYRIN Announces Pricing of Upsized Initial Public Offering

May 15, 2023

Cooley advised Acelyrin, INC., a late-stage biopharmaceutical company, in its $621 million initial public offering, the second-largest biotechnology IPO and largest clinical-stage biotechnology IPO ever.

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Chadwick Mills
Partner, San Francisco
Charlie Kim
Partner, San Diego
Anitha Anne
Associate, San Francisco
Barbara Mirza
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Xander Lee
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Joshua Mates
Partner, San Francisco
Phil Mitchell
Partner, New York
Brad Goldberg
Partner, New York
Peter Adams
Partner, San Diego
Lauren Creel
Partner, Palo Alto
Koji Fukumura
Partner, San Diego
Patrick Gibbs
Partner, Palo Alto
David Peinsipp
Partner, San Francisco
Barbara Borden
Partner, San Diego
David Navetta
Partner, Colorado
Patrick Van Eecke
Partner, Brussels
Shannon Eagan
Partner in Charge – Palo Alto, Palo Alto
Darren DeStefano
Partner, Reston
Francis Wheeler
Partner, Colorado
Thomas Welk
Senior Counsel, San Diego
Natasha Leskovsek
Of Counsel, Washington DC
Brett White
Of Counsel, Palo Alto
Dani Nazemian
Special Counsel, San Diego
Jennifer Shanley
Special Counsel, New York
Jacquelyn Burke
Special Counsel, Boston
Karen Tsai
Special Counsel, Washington DC
Miriam Petrillo
Special Counsel, Chicago
Andrew Nelms
Associate, San Francisco
David D. Kim
Associate, San Francisco
Lawrence Traylor
Associate, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Dionne A. Thomas
Associate, San Diego
Nathaniel Hearn Jr.
Associate, New York
Valerie Sapozhnikova
Associate, Los Angeles Downtown
Eileen Leman
Associate, Los Angeles Downtown
Kelly McCormick
Associate, San Francisco
Mor Agam
Associate, New York
Allison Kutner
Associate, New York
Madison (JJ) Meng
Associate, San Francisco
Rebecca Siegel
Associate, San Francisco
Rachel F. Katz
Associate, New York
Mari Dugas
Associate, Washington DC
Loriane Sangaré-Vayssac
Associate, Brussels
Megan Drill
Associate, San Diego
Amanda Pacheco
Associate, Palo Alto
Kristin R. Marshall
Associate, Washington DC
John T. Stellini
Associate, Palo Alto
Luke X. Blackett
Associate, San Francisco

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Horizon Therapeutics to Be Acquired by Amgen for Approximately $28 Billion

December 20, 2022

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.

 

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Barbara Borden
Partner, San Diego
Kay Chandler
Partner, San Diego
Rama Padmanabhan
Partner, San Diego
Rowook Park
Partner, San Diego
Jacqueline Grise
Partner, Washington DC
Kelly Murata
Paralegal Specialist, San Francisco
Michael Tollini
Partner, Washington DC
Todd Gluth
Partner, San Diego
Lindsey O'Crump
Associate, Washington DC
Edmond Lay
Associate, San Diego
Vivian Tsai
Associate, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Melissa Meza
Associate, San Diego
Peter Adams
Partner, San Diego
Fraser Brown
Partner, Washington DC
Ross Eberly
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Patrick Van Eecke
Partner, Brussels
David Fletcher
Partner, Washington DC
Caroline Hobson
Partner, London
Alexander Israel
Partner in Charge – Brussels, Brussels
Christopher Kimball
Partner, Washington DC
Mischi a Marca
Partner, San Francisco
Chadwick Mills
Partner, San Francisco
Phil Mitchell
Partner, New York
Alessandra Murata
Partner, Palo Alto
John Paul Oleksiuk
Partner, New York
Michelle Garcia Schulman
Partner, Reston
Lei Shen
Partner, Chicago
Charity Williams
Partner, San Diego
Elizabeth Anne Wright
Partner, Brussels
David Burns
Special Counsel, Washington DC
Sharon Connaughton
Special Counsel, Washington DC
Christine Graham
Special Counsel, London
Natasha Leskovsek
Of Counsel, Washington DC
Rebecca Ross
Special Counsel, Washington DC
Stella Sarma
Special Counsel, Brussels
Matthew D. Silverman
Special Counsel, San Diego
Karen Tsai
Special Counsel, Washington DC
Karun Ahuja
Associate, Chicago
Wade Andrews
Associate, San Diego
Ajay Athavale
Associate, San Francisco
Anna Caro
Associate, London
Umer Chaudhry
Associate, Washington DC
Megan Drill
Associate, San Diego
Andrea Batalla Eguidazu
Associate, London
Michael Fernando
Associate, London
Daniel Gillon
Associate, San Diego
Zack Gong
Associate, Shanghai
Ellie Guadiana
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Justin Kisner
Special Counsel, Palo Alto
Jessica Koffel
Associate, Brussels
Allison Kutner
Associate, New York
Daniel Lac
Associate, San Diego
Jan Lang
Associate, Brussels
Katie MacDowell
Associate, Reston
Joe Mandry
Associate, San Diego
Hajra Nashin
Associate, San Diego
Dani Nazemian
Special Counsel, San Diego
Linh Nguyen
Associate, San Diego
Allison Wettstein O’Neill
Associate, San Diego
Alexandra Paterson
Associate, London
Addison Pierce
Associate, Chicago
Bartholomäus Regenhardt
Associate, Brussels
Arman Sagart
Associate, San Diego
Grant Schweikert
Special Counsel, Washington DC
Michael Weinstein
Associate, San Diego
Nathaniel Hearn Jr.
Associate, New York
Megan Browdie
Partner, Washington DC

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Qualcomm Defeats Securities Class Action

February 24, 2022

Cooley secured a win on behalf of Qualcomm when the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of a securities class action alleging that the company misled working in good faith to negotiate a potential sale of the company to rival chipmaker Broadcom, based in Singapore, while working behind scenes to scuttle the deal before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. Mr. Fukumura argued at both the trial and appellate court levels which found that plaintiffs failed to plead falsity, scienter and loss causation.

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Steve Strauss
Senior Counsel, San Diego
Koji Fukumura
Partner, San Diego
Peter Adams
Partner, San Diego
Julie Veroff
Associate, San Francisco

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Legal 500: Key Lawyer – Securities Litigation: Defense (2021)

The Recorder: Top 100 Litigation Lawyers (2015)

 

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