Paul Hastings LLP advised Piper Sandler on a $42 million private placement in connection with the merger of Q32 Bio and Homology Medicines (Nasdaq: FIXX). Leerink Partners LLC also acted as a placement agent in the private placement. The concurrent private placement supports clinical development through multiple milestones, including Phase 2 readouts for bempikart, initial ADX-097 proof-of-concept data by year-end 2024, and ADX-097 results in 2025. The combined company subject to completion of the merger, Q32 Bio (Nasdaq: QTTB), is a clinical stage biotechnology company developing biologic therapeutics targeting potent regulators of the innate and adaptive immune systems to re-balance immunity in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

Partner and co-head of Equity Capital Markets and co-chair of the Corporate Life Sciences Group Seo Salimi and Securities and Capital Markets partner Will Magioncalda led the Paul Hastings team.

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