On July 11, 2023, Zhejiang Doer Biologics Co., Ltd. ("Doer") announced that it had entered into a license agreement with BioNTech SE (NASDAQ: BNTX, "BioNTech"), a German biotechnology unicorn company. Pursuant to the agreement, Doer will grant BioNTech a worldwide license for an innovative discovery, allowing BioNTech to research, develop, manufacture, and commercialize innovative biotherapeutics against an unnamed therapeutic target by utilizing this innovative discovery, and Doer is entitled to receive an upfront payment and will be eligible for potential development, regulatory, and commercial milestone payments. This license-out transaction involves various innovative patents, technologies, and other kinds of intellectual property at multiple levels and different dimensions, indicating Doer's excellent research and development capabilities in innovative biotherapeutics, as well as the great commercial value and prospects for Doer's products and technologies in the world. In short, this transaction is strategically important for Doer's continuous R&D and vigorous future development.
Han Kun Law Offices, acting as Doer's sole legal counsel in this global licensing transaction, provided legal advice and legal services for the entire process, including design of transaction structure, drafting, negotiation, revising, and finalizing the legal documents.
Zhejiang Doer Biologics Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Huadong Medicine Co., Ltd. (SZ.000963), is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery and development of multi-domain based multi-specific biotherapeutics to address unmet medical need in the field of metabolic diseases and cancers. Doer was recognized as a National High-Tech Enterprise in 2018 and passed the review in 2021. It was accredited as one of the High-Tech Enterprise Research and Development Centers in Zhejiang Province in 2020 and was honored as a Hangzhou Quasi-Unicorn Companies from 2021 to 2022.
