Exhibit 5.1

October 24, 2025

Tango Therapeutics, Inc.

201 Brookline Ave.

Suite 901

Boston, MA 02115

 

Re:	Securities Registered under Registration Statement on Form S-3

We have acted as counsel to you in connection with your filing of a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333- 287202) (as amended or supplemented, the “Registration Statement”) filed on May 12, 2025 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), relating to the registration of the offer by Tango Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), of up to $400,000,000 of any combination of securities of the types specified therein. The Registration Statement was declared effective by the Commission on May 21, 2025. Reference is made to our opinion letter dated May 12, 2025 and included as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. We are delivering this supplemental opinion letter in connection with the prospectus supplement (the “Prospectus Supplement”) filed on October 24, 2025 by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act. The Prospectus Supplement relates to the offering by the Company of up to (i) 21,023,337 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Shares”) and (ii) pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) to purchase up to 3,226,458 shares of Common Stock (such shares issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants, the “Pre-Funded Warrant Shares,” and together with the Common Shares, the “Shares”), covered by the Registration Statement. The Common Shares and Pre-Funded Warrants are being sold to the several underwriters named in, and pursuant to, an underwriting agreement among the Company and such underwriters (the “Underwriting Agreement”).

We have reviewed such documents and made such examination of law as we have deemed appropriate to give the opinion set forth below. We have relied, without independent verification, on certificates of public officials and, as to matters of fact material to the opinion set forth below, on certificates of officers of the Company.

The opinions set forth below is/are limited to the Delaware General Corporation Law and with respect to opinion paragraph 2, the law of the State of New York.

Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:

 

1.

The Common Shares have been duly authorized and, when delivered and paid for in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

2.

The Pre-Funded Warrants have been duly authorized and executed by the Company and, when delivered and paid for in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, will be valid and binding obligations of the Company.

 

3.

Assuming the Pre-Funded Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants were issued today in accordance with the terms of the Pre-Funded Warrants, they would be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable

Tango Therapeutics, Inc.

October 24, 2025

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The opinions set forth above are subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws of general application affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and to general principles of equity.

This opinion letter and the opinions it contains shall be interpreted in accordance with the Core Opinion Principles as published in 74 Business Lawyer 815 (Summer 2019).

We hereby consent to the inclusion of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K and its incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement and the reference to our firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Prospectus Supplement. In giving our consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.