Tom Goodman

Cooley advised AviadoBio, a company focused on gene therapy for neurodegenerative disorders, on its exclusive option and license agreement with Astellas Pharma for AVB-101, an investigational, adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy in Phase 1/2 development for patients with frontotemporal dementia with progranulin mutations (FTD-GRN).

Cooley advised EyeBiotech Limited, a privately held, clinical-stage ophthalmology biotechnology company working to deliver a new generation of therapies for eye diseases, on the close of an extension to its Series A financing, bringing the total raised to date to $130 million.

Cooley advised Quell Therapeutics, a leading T-regulatory (Treg) cell therapy biotech company based in London, on its exclusive collaboration with AstraZeneca.

Cooley advised Exscientia, an AI-driven pharmatech company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, on its $510.4 million initial public offering, including concurrent private placements to SoftBank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Partners David Boles, Claire Keast-Butler, Div Gupta and Marc Recht led the Cooley team advising Exscientia.

Cooley advised Exscientia, a clinical-stage pharmatech company, on its $225 million Series D funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, which is also providing an additional $300 million equity commitment that can be drawn at Exscientia’s discretion. Lawyers Claire Keast-Butler and Tom Goodman led the Cooley team advising Exscientia.