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Lavoro to Become Publicly Traded Through Business Combination With TPB Acquisition Corporation I

April 24, 2023

Cooley advised TPB Acquisition Corporation I, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by The Production Board, in its business combination agreement that will result in Lavoro Limited, a leading agricultural inputs retailer in Latin America, becoming a US publicly listed company with an implied initial enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion.

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Sarah Curry
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Tmunity Therapeutics Agrees to Sell to Kite

December 28, 2022

Cooley advised Tmunity Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, on its agreement to sell to Kite, a global biopharmaceutical company. Partners Mark Weeks, Ben Beerle and Marya Postner led the Cooley team.

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John Forrest
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Joyce Li
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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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Partner, San Diego
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Associate, Washington DC
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John Paul Oleksiuk
Partner, New York
Michelle Garcia Schulman
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Lei Shen
Partner, Chicago
Charity Williams
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Elizabeth Anne Wright
Partner, Brussels
David Burns
Special Counsel, Washington DC
Sharon Connaughton
Special Counsel, Washington DC
Christine Graham
Special Counsel, London
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Matthew D. Silverman
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Karun Ahuja
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Wade Andrews
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Ajay Athavale
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Anna Caro
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Umer Chaudhry
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Megan Drill
Associate, San Diego
Andrea Batalla Eguidazu
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Michael Fernando
Associate, London
Daniel Gillon
Associate, San Diego
Zack Gong
Associate, Shanghai
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Special Counsel, Palo Alto
Jessica Koffel
Associate, Brussels
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Daniel Lac
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Jan Lang
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Joe Mandry
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Allison Wettstein O’Neill
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Alexandra Paterson
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Associate, Brussels
Arman Sagart
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Grant Schweikert
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Dropbox Acquisition of FormSwift

December 16, 2022

Cooley advised Dropbox on its acquisition of FormSwift, a cloud-based service that provides individuals and businesses solutions to create, edit and save critical business forms and agreements. Dropbox is a collaboration platform transforming how people work together – from the smallest business to the largest enterprise. Lawyers Ben Beerle, Kassendra Galindo, Luke Blackett and Erin Wright led the Cooley team advising Dropbox.

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EV Connect Sells to Schneider Electric

October 27, 2022

Cooley advised EV Connect, a premier electric vehicle charging solution provider, on its sale to Schneider Electric, a leader in energy management automation.

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