Kirkland Advises OpenAI on Acquisition of Orchestra Bio
Kirkland & Ellis represented OpenAI on its acquisition of Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharma teams coordinate the complex process of drug development. Orchestra’s team and technology will be combined with Rosalind, OpenAI’s AI models and tools for life sciences research. Together, OpenAI aims to build agents that help teams connect scientific findings with the studies, decisions and next steps needed to advance a potential medicine.
The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Brian Junquera, Rachael Coffey, Ed Lee, Emily Hong, Caraline Higgins and Jonathan Schachter; technology & IP transactions lawyers Seth Traxler, Shellie Freedman, Abby O’Neill and James Baker; tax lawyers Sara Zablotney, Margot Solmssen and Alexandra Spano; executive compensation lawyers Rohit Nafday, Anthony Ji and Diana Soriano; employee benefits lawyers Justin Coddington and Alivia Benedict; employment & labor lawyers Jackie Heffernan and Cassandra Lagana; antitrust & competition lawyer Andrea Murino; and transactional liability lawyer Hayley Hollender.
