Adam Ruttenberg

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I am a deal guy. I work with companies to help them leverage their intellectual property and technology in a commercial context.

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Helping grow companies and bring new and innovative products to the market

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Cooley Advises io Products on $6.5 Billion Acquisition by OpenAI

May 29, 2025

Cooley advised io Products, an engineering and product manufacturing company co-founded by Jony Ive to develop, engineer and manufacture a new family of products for the artificial general intelligence era, on its approximately $6.5 billion acquisition by OpenAI. As part of the deal, Ive and his creative collective, LoveFrom, will assume deep design and creative responsibilities across OpenAI. 

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Sharon Connaughton
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Jeff Goldman
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Karen Tsai
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Christopher B. Durbin
Of Counsel, Seattle
Blake Martell
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Ryan Bowers
Associate, Washington, DC
David Dalton
Associate, Santa Monica
Sharon Davidov
Associate, New York
Alexander Ellebracht
Associate, Palo Alto
Michael Gladstone
Associate, New York
Michael Gladstone
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Elaine Huang
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Bomin Kim
Associate, New York
Jessica Li
Associate, Palo Alto
Anne Luquette
Associate, San Francisco
Sarah Oliai
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Associate, Colorado
Katie Kissner
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Red Canary Announces Acquisition by Zscaler

May 27, 2025

Cooley advised Red Canary, a top managed detection and response platform that investigate threats while streamlining workflows through automated remediation, on its acquisition by Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS).

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Associate, New York
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Director of Marketing – Litigation, Chicago
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Associate, San Diego
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Associate, Palo Alto
Ross Eberly
Partner, Santa Monica
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Partner, Washington, DC
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Partner, New York
Michael McMahon
Partner, Boston
Barbara Mirza
Partner, Santa Monica
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Partner, Washington, DC
Adam Ruttenberg
Partner, Washington, DC
Robert Jacques
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Mark Windfeld-Hansen
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Karen Tsai
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Rachel Thorn
Of counsel, New York
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Associate, Palo Alto
Lanny E. Holstein
Associate, Colorado
Katie Kaufman
Associate, Boston
Allison Kutner
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Realta Fusion Announces $36 Million Series A

May 13, 2025

Cooley advised Realta Fusion, a fusion energy startup, on its oversubscribed $36 million Series A financing.

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Partner, Washington, DC
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Clarabridge Agrees to Sell to Qualtrics for $1.125 Billion

August 2, 2021

Cooley advised Clarabridge, a customer experience management platform focused on omnichannel text and speech analytics, on its agreement to sell to Qualtrics in a stock transaction valued at $1.125 billion. Lawyers Kevin Cooper, Jamie Leigh and Izzy Lubarsky led the Cooley team advising Clarabridge.

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Special Counsel, London
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Partner, Washington, DC
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Partner, Brussels
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Partner, Washington, DC
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Associate, Washington, DC
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IonQ Agrees to SPAC Merger With dMY Technology Group III

March 19, 2021

Cooley advised IonQ, a quantum computing hardware and software company, on its merger agreement with special purpose acquisition company dMY Technology Group III. Resulting in $650 million in gross proceeds, including $350 million from a fully committed PIPE, the transaction will make IonQ the first publicly traded pure-play hardware and software company in the quantum computing space. Partners Adam Ruttenberg, John McKenna, David Silverman, Jaime Chase and Mike Lincoln led the Cooley team advising IonQ.

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Rankings and accolades

The Legal 500 US: Hall of Fame for Technology Transactions (2023)

The Legal 500 US: Hall of Fame for Telecoms and Broadcast: Transactional (2023)

The Best Lawyers in America (2006-2019)

Legal 500: Technology Transactions (2008-2020); Hall of Fame – Technology Transactions and Telecoms and Broadcast (2021)

Legal 500: Hall of Fame, Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology Transactions (2020 – 2021)

Washington Business Journal: Technology Transactions – DC area

IAM Licensing 250

IAM Patent 1000


Adam is the best attorney I've ever worked with when it comes to IP and contracts law. With his deep subject matter expertise, quick mind and ability to navigate thru complex negotiations, he is not only the best but turns out to be the best value of any attorney in town.

Todd Bramblett, President, Nehemiah Security LLC