Cooley Advises Underwriters in Proto Labs IPO
San Francisco, Calif. — February 27, 2012 — Cooley LLP is pleased to announce it advised the underwriters in an initial public offering of common stock of Proto Labs, Inc. (NYSE: PRLB).
Jefferies & Company, Inc. and Piper Jaffray & Co. are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. William Blair & Company, L.L.C. and Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC are acting as co-managers for the offering.
The team of Cooley business lawyers advising the underwriters includes San Francisco partner Kenn Guernsey, San Diego partners Charles S. Kim and Sean Clayton, Boston associate Damien Grierson, San Diego associate James Lu and San Francisco associate Amanda Busch.
About Proto Labs
Proto Labs is a leading online and technology-enabled quick-turn manufacturer of custom parts for prototyping and short-run production. It provides "Real Parts, Really Fast" to product developers worldwide, who are under increasing pressure to bring their finished products to market faster than their competition. Proto Labs utilizes computer numerical control, or CNC, machining and injection molding to manufacture custom parts for its customers. Its proprietary technology eliminates most of the time-consuming and expensive skilled labor conventionally required to quote and manufacture parts in low volumes. Proto Labs' customers conduct nearly all of their business with it over the Internet. Proto Labs targets its services to the millions of product developers who use three-dimensional computer-aided design, or 3D CAD, software to design products across a diverse range of end-markets. Proto Labs believes its use of advanced technology enables it to offer significant advantages at competitive prices to many product developers and is the primary reason Proto Labs has become a leading supplier of low-volume custom parts. Proto Labs is headquartered in Maple Plain, Minnesota. For more information, visit www.protolabs.com.
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