Perkins Coie Advises FIRE1 in $120M Financing

NEW YORK (January 8, 2025)—Perkins Coie is pleased to have advised FIRE1, an innovative medical technology company focused on revolutionizing heart failure care, on its intellectual property strategy as part of its $120 million fundraising. For more information, please see the FIRE1 press release here.

Based in Dublin, Ireland, FIRE1's team of scientists and engineers has developed NORM, a heart failure management system offering a groundbreaking approach for patients to manage heart failure. By enabling patients to engage in physician directed self-management, NORM reduces the burden on healthcare staff, making it easier to keep patients healthier and at home.

The Perkins Coie legal team included partners Thomas Yee and Zach Hong, as well as counsel Bryan Johnson and associate Jason Francis. The team represented FIRE1 at all stages of IP due diligence to successfully complete its financing. 

The internationally recognized Intellectual Property practice at Perkins Coie consists of more than 275 lawyers and agents in the United States and Asia, over 80 percent of whom have degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). 

Our IP team, which provides innovative, collaborative counsel at every stage of IP protection and development, has facilitated patent and portfolio purchases and sales totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, venture funding totaling billions of dollars, and acquisitions and initial public offerings totaling in the tens of billions of dollars.