﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Venture Capital Financings Updates from Cooley Godward Kronish LLP</title><description>Venture Capital Financings Updates from Cooley Godward Kronish LLP</description><link>http://www.cooley.com</link><item><title>Cooley Partner Craig Dauchy Named San Francisco Bay Area Corporate Lawyer of the Year</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Palo Alto, Calif. – Nov. 19, 2009 -- &lt;/strong&gt;Cooley Godward Kronish announced today that &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/cdauchy" target=_self&gt;Craig Dauchy&lt;/a&gt;, head of the firm's &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/venturecapital" target=_self&gt;Venture Capital&lt;/a&gt; practice, was named the 2010 ...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63354</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Partner Comments on San Diego Biotech Industry</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/wfishburn" target=_self&gt;Wain Fishburn&lt;/a&gt; commented on the changing relationship between biotech companies and big pharmaceutical companies. His remarks were made during a panel discussion sponsored by BIOCOM, a life sciences industry group in San Diego, and...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showinthenews.aspx?Show=63410</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cooley Report Highlights Q3 2009 Venture Capital Financing Trends</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Palo Alto, Calif. – Nov. 18, 2009 &lt;/strong&gt;– Cooley Godward Kronish LLP today released its most recent report on venture capital financing market terms. The report analyzes the firm's venture capital transactions nationwide that closed during the third quarter of 2009, with comparisons to...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63348</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Venture Financing Report—November 2009</title><description>&lt;p&gt;In general the third quarter of 2009 showed signs of slow but continued improvement in certain financial terms and metrics while showing deterioration in others. Median pre-money valuations in earlier rounds of financing saw improvements over the first half of 2009 while median pre-money valuatio...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showarticle.aspx?Show=63344</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cooley Grows New York Corporate Presence with Addition of Babak (Bo) Yaghmaie </title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New York – Nov. 2, 2009 –&lt;/strong&gt; Cooley Godward Kronish LLP announced today that &lt;a href="byaghmaie"&gt;Babak (Bo) Yaghmaie&lt;/a&gt; has joined the firm. Yaghmaie, who headed the national Venture Capital practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, will be resident in New York where he will lea...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63299</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>20 Suggestions in Preparing to Raise Venture Capital</title><description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/files/VC_Fundraise_tips.pdf"&gt;20 Suggestions in Preparing to Raise Venture Capital &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showarticle.aspx?Show=62743</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Partner Fred Muto Named San Diego Corporate Lawyer of the Year</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;San Diego – Sept. 17, 2009 --&lt;/strong&gt; Cooley Godward Kronish announced today that &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/mutoft" target=_self&gt;Fred Muto&lt;/a&gt;, the head of the firm's San Diego office, was named the 2010 Corporate Lawyer of the Year in San Diego by Best Lawyers. &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;A reco...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63151</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cooley Report Highlights Q2 2009 Venture Capital Financing Trends</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Palo Alto, Calif. – August 13, 2009 – &lt;/b&gt;Cooley Godward Kronish LLP today released its most recent report on venture capital financing market terms.&amp;nbsp; The report analyzes the Firm's venture capital transactions nationwide that closed during the second quarter of 2009, with comparisons to ...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=62997</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cooley Venture Financing Report Showcased on WSJ blog (&lt;i&gt;The Wall Street Journal Venture Capital Dispatch&lt;/i&gt;)</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Cooley's quarterly analysis of venture financing trends&amp;nbsp;is analyzed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/08/13/deal-terms-still-look-shaky-for-start-ups-but-improving/" target=_blank&gt;View the article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showinthenews.aspx?Show=63007</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Venture Financing Report—August 2009</title><description>&lt;p&gt;In general the second quarter of 2009 showed signs of improvement in market terms for companies. Median pre-money valuations increased from the low points seen in the prior two quarters and, although a majority of transactions continued to be down or flat rounds, a higher percentage of deals were...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showarticle.aspx?Show=62995</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>