Ropes & Gray Advises Ginkgo Bioworks in Acquisition of Patch Biosciences

In The News
March 4, 2024

Ropes & Gray advised Ginkgo Bioworks, a horizontal platform for cell programming, in the acquisition of Patch Biosciences, a synthetic biology and machine learning company with a platform to engineer gene therapies and medicine. The transaction was announced on February 28. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The Ropes & Gray team was led by mergers & acquisitions partner Matthew Byron and mergers & acquisitions associate Abby Alfaro and included life sciences licensing partner Amanda Austin, tax partner Pam Glazier, employment & benefits partner Renata Ferrari, employment & benefits associate Erika Steinbauer and tax associate Benzion Edelman.