Chambers USA 2025 Recognizes Cooley Lawyers + Practices

New York – June 5, 2025 – The Chambers USA 2025 guide has recognized Cooley with 78 practice area rankings and honored 150 Cooley lawyers in their respective fields. Each year, Chambers & Partners conducts extensive research to publish detailed rankings of the country’s top lawyers, legal departments and law firms.

This year, Cooley received 13 new practice area rankings, nine improved practice area rankings, 32 new individual rankings and 26 improved individual rankings, with 28 lawyers receiving one or more Band 1 rankings. The results also include 24 Band 1 practice rankings.

The firm secured multiple new Band 1 rankings in several nationwide rankings tables – including Artificial Intelligence, Corporate Governance, Privacy & Data Security: The Elite, and Venture Capital: Fund Formation. Additionally, the firm maintained its nationwide Band 1 positions in multiple practice areas – including Life Sciences, Privacy & Data Security: Litigation, Product Liability: Regulatory, and Startups & Emerging Companies. The firm is also newly ranked for Congressional Investigations, Higher Education, and Space Law.

In each of these practice areas, the firm either added to its list of ranked lawyers or increased its existing rankings.

The following is a complete list of Cooley’s Chambers USA 2025 practice rankings.

Leading practices

Indicates Band 1 ranking
* Indicates new ranking
+ Indicates improved ranking
 
Nationwide
Artificial Intelligence *
Banking & Finance
Capital Markets: Convertible Debt
Capital Markets: Equity: Issuer Counsel
Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel +
Corporate/M&A: The Elite
Corporate Governance *
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)
Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Enforcement & Investigations)
Government Relations: Congressional Investigations *
Higher Education *
Impact Investing
Intellectual Property
International Arbitration: Highly Regarded
International Trade: CFIUS Experts
International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions: The Elite
Life Sciences
Privacy & Data Security: The Elite +
Privacy & Data Security: Litigation
Product Liability: Regulatory
Securities: Litigation +
Space *
Startups & Emerging Companies
Venture Capital: Fund Formation *
Technology

California
Banking & Finance
Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation
Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution +
Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
Life Sciences: Corporate/ Commercial *
Life Sciences: IP/Patent Litigation *
Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite
Litigation: Securities
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations *
Technology
Venture Capital

California: Los Angeles & Surrounds
Corporate/M&A: The Elite +
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

California: San Diego
Corporate/M&A
Litigation: General Commercial

California: San Francisco, Silicon Valley & Surrounds
Corporate/M&A: The Elite
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

California: Southern
Tax

Colorado
Corporate/M&A
Intellectual Property

District of Columbia
Antitrust +
Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
Healthcare: Pharmaceutical/Medical Products Regulatory *
Intellectual Property: Litigation
Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded +
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations *
Media & Entertainment: Regulatory
Telecom, Broadcast & Satellite +

Massachusetts
Capital Markets
Corporate/M&A
Intellectual Property
Life Sciences
Litigation: General Commercial +
Litigation: Securities
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Private Equity: Fund Formation *
Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment
Technology

New York
Banking & Finance
Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded
Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations: The Elite
Litigation: Securities *

Virginia: Northern
Corporate/M&A
Intellectual Property
Real Estate
Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use

Washington
Corporate/M&A
Intellectual Property

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