Ryan Sansom

Cooley advised Tenet Medicines, a development-stage private biotechnology company, on its definitive agreement to be acquired by Eliem Therapeutics, a biotech company focused on developing novel therapies for neuronal excitability disorders to address unmet needs in psychiatry, epilepsy, chronic pain, and other disorders of the peripheral and central nervous systems.

Cooley advised Abivax, a clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing therapeutics that harness the body’s natural regulatory mechanisms to modulate the immune response in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases, on its $235.8 million initial public offering.

Cooley advised Turnstone Biologics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, on its upsized $80 million initial public offering.

Cooley advised CinCor Pharma, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, on its definitive agreement to be acquired by AstraZeneca. M&A partners Rama Padmanabhan and Rowook Park and corporate partners Div Gupta and Sarah Sellers led the Cooley team.

Cooley advised CinCor Pharma on its upsized $212 million initial public offering of 13,290,813 shares of common stock, which included a partial exercise of the underwriter’s option to purchase additional shares of common stock. CinCor, whose shares now trade on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol CINC, is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing its lead clinical candidate, CIN-107, for the treatment of hypertension and other cardio-renal diseases. CinCor’s IPO was one of the first IPOs of 2022. Partners Ryan Sansom, Div Gupta and Courtney Thorne led the Cooley team.