Latham & Watkins Represents Aura in Acquisition of Qoria

Aura, a leading AI‑powered online safety platform for individuals and families, and Qoria (ASX: QOR), a global leader in student safety and wellbeing, announced a binding agreement under which Aura proposes to acquire Qoria through an Australian scheme of arrangement, subject to the satisfaction of a number of conditions along with listing of Aura on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Upon completion of the transaction, Qoria will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Aura, and the newly combined group will then begin trading on the ASX under the ticker symbol AXQ. This transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026 and is subject to regulatory and Qoria shareholder approval.

Latham & Watkins LLP represents Aura in the transaction with a Capital Markets team led by partners Ian Schuman and Stelios Saffos, Global Chairs of Latham’s Capital Markets Practice, and partner Sarah Axtell, with associates Zoey Wu and Jie Lin Nai; and an M&A team led by partners Javier Stark and Alex Kassai, with associates Erik Thompson and Gabe Marx. Advice was also provided on securities regulatory matters by partners Paul Dudek, Alex Cohen, and Michele Anderson; on benefits matters by partners Maj Vaseghi and Megan Alessi; on antitrust matters by partners David Brenneman, Héctor Armengod, and Greg Bonné, with associates William Reed and Doug Tifft; on regulatory matters by partner Andrew Galdes and counsel Ruchi Gill and Aaron Amundson, with associates Adam Schupack and Christine Kalpin; on data privacy and cybersecurity matters by partner Deborah Hinck, with associate Daniel Barks; and on tax matters by partner Andrea Ramezan‑Jackson.