Fenwick & West LLP represented investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in its recently announced $12.5 million investment in Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), which, among other things, develops its Virus Like Particle technology into vaccines for the prevention of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, pandemic flu, seasonal flu and SARS. This is an investment from Kleiner Perkins' newly created KPCB Pandem ic and Bio Defense Fund. Prospect Venture Partners also invested $7.5 million as part of the transaction. Fenwick & West also represented Kleiner Perkins and the Texas Pacific Group in their recent $30 million investment in BioCryst, a Nasdaq company that is developing vaccines for avian flu and seasonal flu.
The Fenwick & West transaction team consisted of corporate partners Sayre Stevick and Jeffrey Vetter and intellectual property partner Sergio Garcia. Corporate associate Michael Brown also assisted on the transaction.
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