Robert Eisenbach

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Momofuku Goods Raises $17.5 Million in Series A Financing

April 13, 2023

Cooley advised Momofuku Goods, a brand of restaurant-grade pantry staples, on its $17.5 million Series A financing led by Siddhi Capital. The new funding will allow Momofuku to expand product offerings and support its growing operations, which includes scaling its team and marketing efforts.

“We spent a decade testing and developing our pantry essentials, ensuring that they were up to the standards we uphold in our restaurants,” David Chang, celebrity chef and founder of Momofuku restaurant group, said in a press statement. “With this investment, I’m looking forward to bringing even more flavor to home cooks’ kitchens.” Founded by the team behind Momofuku restaurants, Momofuku Goods offers a range of products, including chili crunch oil, air-dried noodles, soy sauce, rice vinegar and seasoned salts that are sold online and in more than 2,000 retail stores.

Winston Gu and Yvan-Claude Pierre led the Cooley team, which also included Len Jacoby, JP Oleksiuk, Jonathan Rivinus, Robert Eisenbach, Joyce Kim, Chris Chynoweth, Andrew Mettry, Bomin Kim and Noah Belsky.

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Winston Gu
Partner, Chicago
Yvan-Claude Pierre
Partner, New York
Len Jacoby
Partner, New York
John Paul Oleksiuk
Partner, New York
Jonathan Rivinus
Partner, Colorado
Robert Eisenbach
Of Counsel, San Francisco
Joyce Kim
Associate, Chicago
Chris Chynoweth
Associate, New York
Andrew Mettry
Associate, Chicago

GrowFlow Agrees to Sell to Dama Financial

February 1, 2022

Cooley advised GrowFlow, a business-to-business software as a service (SaaS) platform dedicated to helping customers grow their cannabis businesses, on its agreement to sell to Dama Financial, the nation’s largest provider of access to banking and payment solutions for the cannabis industry. Partners Dave Young and Steven Dunst led the Cooley team advising GrowFlow.

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Dave Young
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Steven M. Dunst
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Stephanie Gentile
Partner, New York
Charles Haley
Partner, Palo Alto
Ross Eberly
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Mark Windfeld-Hansen
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Robert Eisenbach
Of Counsel, San Francisco
Jeff Goldman
Special Counsel, Palo Alto
Stacey A. Bradford
Special Counsel, Washington DC
Alexander Ellebracht
Associate, Palo Alto
Amanda Pacheco
Associate, Palo Alto
Eileen Leman
Associate, Los Angeles Downtown
Paula Fleckenstein
Associate, Reston
Mollie Canby
Senior Paralegal, San Francisco

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Genesis MedTech Acquires Drug Device Asset From TriReme Medical

September 14, 2020

Cooley advised Singapore-headquartered Genesis MedTech International on its acquisition of the Chocolate Touch drug-coated balloon from TriReme Medical, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore-listed QT Vascular. The Chocolate Touch drug-coated balloon is the world's first balloon catheter that combines therapeutic agent delivery with the next generation of controlled dilation angioplasty technique for the treatment of peripheral vascular diseases. Cooley partners Lila Hope and Matthew Bartus led the team advising Genesis MedTech.

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Lila Hope
Partner, Palo Alto
Matthew Bartus
Partner, San Francisco
Robert Eisenbach
Of Counsel, San Francisco
Rick Jantz
Associate, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Christopher Kimball
Partner, Washington DC
Xander Lee
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Natasha Leskovsek
Of Counsel, Washington DC
Nicola Maguire
Partner, London
Mika Reiner Mayer
Partner, Palo Alto
John Paul Oleksiuk
Partner, New York
Rama Padmanabhan
Partner, San Diego

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Fate Therapeutics Licensing and Platform Collaboration with Janssen Biotech

April 3, 2020

Fate Therapeutics in its global collaboration and option agreement with Janssen Biotech, Inc. (Janssen), one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. Under the multi-year collaboration agreement, Janssen will contribute proprietary antigen binding domains for up to four tumor-associated antigen targets. The Company will apply its iPSC product platform to research and preclinically develop new iPSC-derived chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) NK and CAR T-cell product candidates.

Under the terms of the agreement, Janssen will receive $50 million in cash and $50 million from the purchase by Johnson & Johnson Innovation  JJDC, Inc. of newly issued shares of the Company’s common stock at a price per share of $31.00. Janssen is also eligible to receive payments of up to  $1.8 billion upon the achievement of development and regulatory milestones and up to $1.2 billion upon the achievement of commercial milestones, plus double-digit royalties on worldwide commercial sales of products targeting the antigens.

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Lila Hope
Partner, Palo Alto
Rena Kaminsky
Special Counsel, Palo Alto
Bin Wang
Special Counsel, Palo Alto
Amanda Pacheco
Associate, Palo Alto
Aaron Pomeroy
Partner, Colorado
Robert Eisenbach
Of Counsel, San Francisco
Marc Suskin
Partner, New York
Natasha Leskovsek
Of Counsel, Washington DC

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Quirky Files for Chapter 11

July 26, 2016

Cooley was selected as debtors’ counsel for Quirky, an invention startup company. Cooley is working with potentially interested parties to establish a stalking-horse bidder for the Quirky assets, including assets related to the Quirky online community and the Quirky name. Quirky's affiliate Wink has entered into an agreement with Flextronics International USA for the sale of assets related to the Wink business at a purchase price of $15 million.

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Babak (Bo) Yaghmaie
Partner, New York
Robert Eisenbach
Of Counsel, San Francisco
Michael Klein
Partner, New York

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