Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co and McDermott Will & Emery have won instructions on a $1.3bn (£820m) collaboration deal between AstraZeneca and fellow biopharmaceutical company Innate Pharma.

The agreement will see AstraZeneca and MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, work with Innate to accelerate the development of a prospective cancer treatment, IPH2201, which is currently being made by Innate.