Ferish Patel

Ferish Patel is the founding partner of Cooley’s Singapore office. Ferish provides strategic advice to clients in Asia, the United States, Europe and MENA, across the full-spectrum of corporate matters – including private financings of all stages, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters. Ferish has helped clients raise over US$150 billion in public and private capital and to achieve liquidity and other exit transactions. This includes advising on several, landmark deals in the technology and life sciences sectors – for example, representing Flipkart on its $16 billion sale to Walmart (the second largest M&A exit by a technology company); representing Coupang on its $5 billion US IPO (the second largest US IPO by an international company); representing Freshworks on its $1 billion US IPO (the largest US IPO by an India-originated company); and representing Opthea on its US IPO (the largest US IPO by an Australian new economy company).

Representative Matters

M&A and Private Equity

• FinAccel on its proposed merger with VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings II
• The financial advisors in connection with Grab’s merger with Altimeter Growth Corp and concomitant $4 billion PIPE (the largest SPAC merger in history)
• Byju’s on its $500 million acquisition of Epic
• Flipkart on its $16 billion sale to Walmart
• Thrasio on its acquisition of Lifelong
• Kaidee on its sale to Emerging Markets Property Group
• GoJek on its acquisition of Coins.ph
• WhiteHat Jr on its acquisition by Byju’s

Capital Markets & Other Public Financings

• Opthea on its $260 million public offering and concurrent private placement with Launch Therapeutics and The Carlyle Group
• The financial advisors in connection with Grab’s merger with Altimeter Growth Corp and concomitant $4 billion PIPE (the largest SPAC merger in history)
• Coupang on its $4.5 billion NYSE initial public offering
• Opthea on its $128 million Nasdaq initial public offering
• Freshworks on its $1.1 billion Nasdaq initial public offering

Private Equity, Growth Equity and Pre-IPO Private Financings

• FinAccel on its $270 million Series D private financing
• Holmusk on its $45 million Series B strategic investment by Veradigm
• Brookfield Private Equity on its Series D private financing of Sirion Labs
• Janio on its Series B private financing
• Mobile Premier League on its Series E private financing
• Nium on its $200 million Series D private financing
• Meesho on its $300 million Series E private financing
• ADQ on its private financing of Flipkart
• Coatue on its Series E private financing of BharatPe
• ADQ on its Series B private financing of Trukker
• FinAccel on its $100 million Series C private financing
• Mobile Premier League on its Series D private financing
• Moglix on its Series E private financing
• Multiplier on its Series B private financing
• Zest Money on its Series C private financing
• Nas Daily on its Series B private financing
• Ula on its US$120 million Series B private financing (one of the largest ever Series B financings in Southeast Asia)
• Trusting Social on its Series B private financing
• OnlinePajak on its Series C private financing
• Refyne on its Series B private financing
• Casa Verde Capital on its Series D private financing of Dutchie
• Nuevocor on its Series B private financing
• Mobile Premier League on its Series C private financing
• AlphaWave on its Series B private financing of GudangAda
• HolidayMe on its Series C private financing
• Coatue on its Series D private financing of BharatPe
• Homage on its Series B private financing
• Moglix on its Series D private financing
• FinAccel on its $40 million Series B private financing
• Mobile Premier League on its Series B private financing
• Moglix on its Series C private financing
• Kalibrr on its Series B private financing
• OnlinePajak on its Series B private financing
• Alerzo on its Series B private financing
• Flipkart on its Series G private financing
• Private and growth equity funds including TA Associates, Brookfield Private Equity, Blackstone, KKR, AlphaWave and Tiger Global

Early-Stage and Other Venture Capital Financings

• LXA on its Series Seed private financing
• 10 Minute School on its Series Seed private financing (the largest seed financing in Bangladesh)
• DotBio on its Series Seed private financing
• NayaPay on its $13 million Series Seed private financing (one of the largest seed financings in South Asia)
• Varni Labs on its Series Seed private financing
• Nas Daily on its Series A private financing
• Next Gen Foods on its $100 million Series A private financing (the largest private financing for a plant-based food company)
• Lerna Biopharma (f/k/a Cargene Biopharma) on its Series A private financing
• Momos on its Series Seed private financing
• Nuevocor on its Series A private financing
• Refyne on its Series private financing
• Endowus on its Series A private financing (one of the largest ever Series A financings for a Singapore-based fintech)
• Bzaar on its Series Seed private financing
• Mineski on its Series A private financing
• Alerzo on its Series A private financing
• Holmusk on its Series A private financing
• Homage on its Series A private financing
• Ula on its Series A private financing
• Venture capital funds including GGV Capital, Coatue, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed, Casa Verde Capital, Monograph Capital, Monk’s Hill, EDBI Ventures, Tiger Global, Burda, Flourish Ventures and SMRT Ventures