News & Press Releases

Mintz announces that Associate Courtney Herndon has received the firm’s 2025 Richard Mintz Pro Bono Award. Presented annually by the firm’s Pro Bono Committee, the award honors one attorney whose exceptional commitment to pro bono service reflects Mintz’s dedication to advancing access to justice.

Ruth Jin has joined Mintz as a Member in the firm’s Corporate Practice with a focus on investment fund formation, liquidity strategies, governance, investment transactions, and securities offerings.

Mintz Member Rachel Alexander shared insights with Bloomberg Law for an article about how employers are increasingly challenging state laws regulating pharmacy benefit managers (PBM). The piece focuses on the Supreme Court’s recent decision not to review Oklahoma’s Patient’s Right to Pharmacy Choice Act, which the Tenth Circuit had struck down for violating ERISA. While the ruling applies only to the six states under the Tenth Circuit, it may influence similar cases nationwide.

Alexandra Gallo-Cook was quoted by The Deal in an article about a bill that would give New York jurisdiction over a wide array of mergers. If enacted, New York would have the most far-reaching competition law of any state.

San Francisco Business Times featured Mintz’s new office lease in San Francisco at 525 Market St. The firm will be increasing its footprint in downtown by 50% to 29,000 square feet on a whole single floor with the new space.

Mintz advised the underwriters in connection with a $230 million public offering by Cogent Biosciences, Inc. of 25,555,556 shares of common stock, which includes 3,333,333 shares issued pursuant to the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares of common stock, offered at a public offering price of $9.00 per share. The aggregate gross proceeds to Cogent from this offering were approximately $230 million, including proceeds from the exercise in full by the underwriters of the option to purchase additional shares, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses.