Ropes & Gray Advised Georgiamune in an up to $1.1 Billion License Agreement with Menarini Group

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October 22, 2026

Ropes & Gray represented Georgiamune Inc. in its exclusive worldwide license and collaboration agreement with The Menarini Group for GIM-621, a preclinical-stage, first-in-class oral small molecule immunotherapy with potential application across multiple solid tumors. The agreement was announced on October 22.

Georgiamune is a clinical-stage biotechnology company centered on the discovery of novel mechanisms governing immune activation, suppression and homeostasis and leveraging those insights to develop first-in-class therapies designed to reprogram immune signaling pathways to treat cancer and autoimmune disease.

The Ropes & Gray team was led by life sciences licensing partner Abby Gregor and associate Ian Nilsen.