Adam Shaun Bloom

Adam advises clients on general business and corporate law matters. His practice focuses on complex transactions and deals involving novel structures, including majority and minority investment transactions, joint ventures, carve outs, spinouts, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and recapitalizations, and other general corporate matters. Adam has represented many public and private technology companies, venture capital firms and private equity firms.

Before joining Cooley, Adam was a partner in the corporate group of a US-based international law firm. Previously, he was an associate in the intellectual property group of another global law firm, where his practice focused on patent, trade secret, copyright and trademark litigation.

Before his legal career, Adam worked for IBM’s globalization and verification testing group in North Carolina, where he tested IBM’s WebSphere product on various operating systems, including Linux, Unix and Windows, in up to nine different languages, none of which were English. Adam also worked for BindView as a web developer, building web pages using ColdFusion.

Adam’s representative matters include advising:

• Andersen Group on its 2025 $202.4 million umbrella partnership C corporation (Up-C) initial public offering (IPO)**
• Column Tax on its 2025 sale to Aiwyn
• Circle Internet Group on its 2025 acquisitions of Interop Labs and Informal Systems
• Fordefi on its 2025 sale to Paxos
• Fluidstack on its 2025 joint venture with TeraWulf
• Isomorphic Labs on its 2025 $600 million external funding round*
• Serent Capital on its 2024 significant growth investment in HarperDB*
• Frequence on its 2024 sale to Madhive*
• OneStream on its 2024 Up-C IPO*
• Circle on its 2023 strategic USDC relationship transaction with Coinbase*
• Divergent Technologies on its 2023 upsized $230 million Series D financing*
• Divergent Technologies on its 2022 $160 million Series C financing*
• Circle on its 2022 sale of SeedInvest to StartEngine*
• Entrata on its 2022 ownership transition*
• QualPay on its 2022 strategic investment agreement with Synovus*
• GeoPhy on its 2022 sale to Walker & Dunlop*
• Entrata on its 2021 $507 million private investment*
• Inspirato on its 2021 Up-C reorganization and de-SPAC merger*
• Cricut on its 2021 IPO*
• Temasek on its 2020 Series B investment in BlueVoyant*
• Vacasa on its 2020 $108 million Series D financing*
• GeoPhy on its 2019 joint venture with Walker & Dunlop*
• Vacasa on its 2019 $319 million Series C financing*
• Ampere Computing on its 2019 – 2024 equity and convertible note fundings*
• ForeSee on its 2018 sale to Verint Systems*
• Spigit on its 2018 sale to Planview*
• Lithia Motors on its 2018 investment in Shift Technologies*
• Caffeine on its 2018 joint venture with Fox Sports*
• Pluralsight on its 2018 Up-C reorganization and IPO*
• GSV Asset Management on its 2017 investment from HMC Capital*
• Vacasa on its 2017 $103.5 million Series B financing*
• Argo AI on its 2017 investment by Ford Motor Company*
• GoDaddy on its 2017 acquisition of Host Europe Group*
• KKR on its 2016 acquisition of Calabrio*
• Hipmunk on its 2016 sale to Concur Technologies*
• Jasper Technologies on its 2016 sale to Cisco Systems*
• LSQ Funding on its 2015 sale to Lovell Minnick*
• GoDaddy on its 2015 Up-C reorganization and IPO*
• Mainsail Partners on its 2015 control investment in SQL Sentry*
• Palo Alto Networks on its 2014 acquisition of Cyvera*
• Answers on its 2014 sale to Apax Partners*
• Answers on its 2013 acquisition of ForeSee Results*

* Transaction handled before joining Cooley

**Underwriter representation