WilmerHale represented ImmPACT Bio, a clinical-stage company developing transformative logic-gate based chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies for treating cancer, in its January 2022 $111 million Series B financing.
The financing included co-leads Foresite Capital and Decheng Capital, in addition to Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company). Other investors include the company’s existing investors OrbiMed, Novartis Venture Fund, RM Global Partners (RMGP) and Bukwang Pharmaceutical. The financing proceeds will be used to advance the company’s pipeline of transformative next-generation CAR T-cell therapies that harness the immune system and address key challenges for current cell therapies in cancer.
The WilmerHale team representing ImmPACT Bio included Eric Hanson, Jason Kropp, Victoria Peluso, Naré Aleksanyan and Shaina Hourizadeh.