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Cooley Capital Markets Continues Leadership With Debt Deals

July 22, 2020

Palo Alto – July 22, 2020 – Cooley’s capital markets practice continues to demonstrate market dominance, including by advising issuers, underwriters and initial purchasers on numerous significant bond transactions. The firm is #2 for issuer-side convertible note offerings for 1H 2020 based on number of deals, according to Prospect News Convertibles Daily, as well as #1 for Q1 and #2 for Q2 based on deal size.

In particular, Cooley has advised issuers on notable bond transactions, including these selected offerings:

  • NVIDIA’s $5 billion notes offering
  • Splunk’s $1.26 billion convertible senior notes offering
  • Zoetis’ $1.25 billion senior notes offering
  • Uber’s $1.2 billion senior notes offering
  • MongoDB’s $1.15 billion convertible notes offering
  • Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ $1 billion exchangeable senior notes offering
  • Snap’s $1 billion convertible senior notes offering
  • Datadog’s $747.5 million convertible senior notes offering
  • BioMarin’s $550 million subordinated convertible notes offering
  • Meredith Corporation’s $300 million senior secured notes offering
  • PagerDuty’s $287.5 million convertible senior notes offering
  • Revance Therapeutics’ $287.5 million convertible senior notes offering
  • 1Life Healthcare’s $275 million convertible senior notes offering
  • Rapid7’s $230 million convertible senior notes offering

The firm has also advised underwriters and initial purchasers on notable bond offerings, including these selected offerings:

  • Zendesk’s $1.15 billion convertible senior notes offering
  • Livongo Health’s $550 million convertible senior notes offering
  • The Clorox Company’s $500 million investment grade senior unsecured senior notes offering
  • Health Catalyst’s $260 million senior notes offering
  • Gossamer Bio’s $200 million convertible senior notes offering
  • Tricida’s $200 million convertible senior notes offering

Cooley has been the #1 law firm advising companies going public across all industries since 2014 and the #1 law firm for all venture-backed IPOs across all industries for 15+ years, according to IPO Vital Signs and PitchBook. Earlier this year, the firm earned a three-time Capital Markets Practice Group of the Year distinction by Law360 and was named one of the decade's top IPO legal advisers by Bloomberg Law.

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