Cooley advised Virtue AI, an innovator in AI runtime protection, automated AI validation, and security for autonomous AI systems, on its acquisition by Fortinet, the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security.

The transaction was announced publicly in this press release.

Kate Nichols, Erin Kirchner, Caitlin Courtney, and Cameron Gyorffy led the Cooley team advising Virtue AI.

Timothy Shapiro, Todd Gluth, Austin Holt, Ben Horwitz, Sam Thompson, Alice Wu, David Dalton, Jacob Lahana, Sam Dodson, and Breanna Qin provided invaluable support.

Cooley previously advised Virtue AI on its Series Seed and Series A financing rounds and most recently represented the company in its acqui-hire by Meta.

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