Cooley LLP

Cooley LLP is a global law firm founded in 1920 in San Francisco. It provides legal counsel to technology and life sciences companies, with particular emphasis on capital markets and IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, corporate partnering and licensing, and investment funds formation. The firm also advises emerging companies and venture capital investors, and counts disruptive and innovative businesses across the technology, life sciences and investment funds sectors among its core clients.

Transaction volumes reflect the firm's position in these markets. Cooley is ranked as the number one law firm for technology and life sciences IPOs. Since 2020 it has worked on more than 1,000 M&A transactions valued at over $555 billion. Its life sciences corporate partnering and licensing practice has completed more than 630 deals since 2010, and in the past three years the firm has acted on more than 960 funds with over $100 billion in committed capital closings.

Cooley employs more than 3,000 people worldwide, among them nearly 1,400 lawyers and more than 385 partners, organised as a single-tier global partnership operating on a one-firm basis across 19 offices in the United States, Asia and Europe. The firm describes its culture as rooted in excellence, entrepreneurship, collaboration and creativity. Its external recognition includes the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Equality 100 Award, Chambers Associate's Elite ranking for diversity, equity and inclusion, and Law360 Pulse's Social Impact Leader designation.