KalVista Pharmaceuticals Enters Licensing Agreement with Kaken to Commercialize Oral Rare Genetic Disease Therapy in Japan

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April 9, 2025

Ropes & Gray represented KalVista Pharmaceuticals in a licensing agreement with Kaken Pharmaceuticals to commercialize KalVista’s investigational oral on-demand therapy, sebetralstat, in Japan for treatment targeting a rare genetic disease called hereditary angioedema. The transaction was announced on April 8.

The Ropes & Gray team included life sciences licensing partner Hannah England and life sciences licensing associate Mallory Ursul.