The Legal 500 2016 Recognizes Cooley

Palo Alto – June 21, 2016 – The Legal 500 United States 2016 recognized 23 Cooley practice areas and recommended Cooley as a #1 firm for venture capital and emerging companies and technology transactions. Eight partners were recognized as leading lawyers in their respective fields and firm chairman Stephen Neal and partner Michael Rhodes were singled out as leading trial lawyers.

The following Cooley attorneys and practices were highlighted:

Leading Lawyers

• Barbara Borden – M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A – middle-market ($500m-999m)
• John Crittenden – Intellectual Property – Trademarks: litigation 
• Jim Fulton – M&A/corporate and commercial – Venture capital and emerging companies
• Barbara Kosacz  – Industry focus – Healthcare: life sciences
• Fred Muto – M&A/corporate and commercial – Venture capital and emerging companies
• Stephen Neal – Leading trial lawyer 
• Michael Rhodes – Leading trial lawyer
• Adam Ruttenberg – Media, technology and telecoms – Technology transactions
• Randy Sabett – Media, technology and telecoms – Technology – data protection and privacy
• Mark Tanoury – M&A/corporate and commercial – Venture capital and emerging companies

Recommended Practice Groups
*Denotes #1 ranking

• Antitrust – Merger control
• Dispute resolution – General commercial disputes
• Dispute resolution – Leading trial lawyers
• Dispute resolution – Securities litigation – defense
• Dispute resolution – White-collar criminal defense
• Finance – Capital markets: equity offerings – advice to issuers
• Industry focus – Healthcare: life sciences
• Intellectual property – Patent litigation: full coverage
• Intellectual property – Patents: portfolio management and licensing
• Intellectual property – Patents – prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings) – Patent – prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
• Intellectual property – Trademarks: litigation
• Intellectual property – Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
• Investment fund formation and management  – Private equity funds
• M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
• M&A/corporate and commercial – Venture capital and emerging companies*
• Media, technology and telecoms – Cyber law
• Media, technology and telecoms – Technology: data protection and privacy
• Media, technology and telecoms – Technology: transactions*
• Media, technology and telecoms – Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
• Media, technology and telecoms – Telecoms and broadcast: transactional
• Real estate and construction – Land use/zoning
• Tax – US taxes: contentious
• Tax – US taxes: non-contentious

In May 2016, Cooley also received a national band 1 ranking by Chambers USA for its startups and emerging companies practice group.

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