Davis Polk advised the sole book-running manager in connection with the $50 million follow-on offering of 1,970,000 shares of common stock of Editas Medicine, Inc. The common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “EDIT.”

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Editas Medicine is a genome editing company dedicated to treating patients with genetically-defined diseases by correcting their disease-causing genes.

The Davis Polk corporate team included partner Richard D. Truesdell Jr. and associates Cameron C. Lewis, Jenny J. Choi and Mahfouz Basith. The intellectual property and technology team included counsel David R. Bauer and associates Bonnie Chen and Christopher C. Woller. Counsel Marcie A. Goldstein provided FINRA advice. The tax team included partner Po Sit and associate K. Daniel Berman. All members of the Davis Polk team are based in the New York office.