AUSTIN (May 19, 2023)—Perkins Coie is pleased to have advised Adcentrx Therapeutics in a $38M Series A+ financing led by Eight Roads Ventures. For more information, please see Adcentrx’s press release here.   

Adcentrx is a biotechnology company dedicated to revolutionizing Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) therapeutics for cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Adcentrx plans to use the proceeds from the financing to advance its proprietary ADC therapeutic pipeline into the clinic. 

The Perkins Coie advisory team was headed by Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) partner Valeska Pederson Hintz and included associates Sam Kim and Kaina Pengilly. Additional support was provided by different practices groups in Perkins Coie offices in the U.S. and China, including tax partner Bryan Smith, tax counsel Eric Ashcroft, regulatory partners Jamie Schafer and James Zimmerman, and associate Jiamu Sun. 

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