Cooley Maintains Top Rankings in Global MA and Private Equity
Cooley’s global mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices were again recognized for top ranking positions in Q3 league tables from Bloomberg.* Despite the unpredictable market, Cooley continues to dominate in public and private deals around the world.
- #1 for US and global life sciences M&A
- #1 for US and global tech M&A
- #3 for US and global M&A
- #3 for US mid-market M&A
- #3 for global mid-market M&A
- #2 for US and global private equity deals
In 2026, Cooley handled transactions across a diverse range of industries while also maintaining its top position in technology and life sciences. The firm’s market-leading transactions include representing:
- OpenZeppelin in its acquisition by S&P Global
- Yardi in its acquisition of Sidero Labs
- Chimagen Biosciences in its agreement to sell asset to GSK for up to $750 million
- Virtue AI in its acquisition by Fortinet
- Ambros Therapeutics in its $550 million merger with Werewolf Therapeutics and concurrent $150 million private financing
- Lynk Global in its merger with Omnispace, concurrent investments and partnerships with SES and Nelco
- Slate Medicines in its merger with Fulcrum Therapeutics
- Redx Pharma in its acquisition by Skye Bioscience and concurrent $125 million in financings
- Actio Biosciences in its acquisition by Jazz Pharmaceuticals for up to $1.32 billion
- AlixPartners in its acquisition of Artium
- Professional Fighters League in its merger with Most Valuable Promotions
- Procore Technologies in its acquisition of DroneDeploy for approximately $845 million
- Canoe Intelligence in its acquisition by Bloomberg
- Vidya Therapeutics in its sale to Processa Pharmaceuticals
- Research Alliance Corporation III in its combination with Oak Hill Bio
- Copra in its acquisition by The Vita Coco Company
- Scancell in its acquisition of Neuphoria and concurrent $89 million private financing
- Keyrock in its acquisition of BlockFills’ trading and brokerage assets
- Personalis in its acquisition by Tempus AI for $1.9 billion
Since 2021, Cooley’s world-class transactional team has worked on 1,600+ M&A deals for an aggregate value of more than $750 billion – guiding top public and private companies, financial advisors and private equity sponsors in some of the market’s largest and most complex transactions. The M&A and PE groups include 180+ practitioners in major business and technology centers worldwide, representing all categories of participants in transactions.
* The Bloomberg platform data has not been published by Bloomberg.
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