Cooley

Cooley is a global law firm founded in San Francisco in 1920, with a practice centred on technology and life sciences companies. Its work spans capital markets and IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, life sciences corporate partnering and licensing, investment fund formation, and venture capital and emerging company counsel. The firm is ranked as the leading law firm for technology and life sciences IPOs.

Transaction volumes reflect the scale of the practice. Cooley has handled more than 1,000 M&A transactions valued at over $555 billion since 2020, more than 630 life sciences corporate partnering and licensing deals since 2010, and has worked on over 960 funds with more than $100 billion in committed capital closings in the past three years.

The firm employs nearly 1,400 lawyers and more than 3,000 people in total, across 19 offices in the United States, Asia and Europe. It operates as a single-tier global partnership of more than 385 partners, organised around a one-firm philosophy.

Cooley describes its culture as rooted in excellence, entrepreneurship, collaboration and creativity, with an emphasis on counselling disruptive and innovative companies. The firm has received the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Equality 100 Award, been ranked Elite for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion by Chambers Associate, and been designated a Social Impact Leader by Law360 Pulse.