Freshworks – $1.13 Billion IPO

Palo Alto – September 30, 2021 – Cooley advised Freshworks, a leading software company empowering businesses to delight their customers and employees, on its $1.1286 billion initial public offering of shares of Class A common stock. Lawyers Jon Avina, Dave Segre, Calise Cheng and Sepideh Mousakhani led the Cooley team advising Freshworks.

Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and BofA Securities acted as lead book-running managers for the offering, and Jefferies and Barclays acted as book-running managers. Baird, Canaccord Genuity, JMP Securities, Needham & Company, Wolfe | Nomura Strategic Alliance, Oppenheimer & Co., Piper Sandler, Raymond James, AmeriVet Securities, CastleOak Securities LP, Ramirez & Co. and R. Seelaus & Co. acted as co-managers for the offering.

Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees by taking a fresh approach to building and delivering software that is affordable, quick to implement and designed for the end user. Its Class A common stock now trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "FRSH."

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