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Ali Murata is co-chair of Cooley’s compensation & benefits practice group. Her practice focuses on counseling organizations and management – particularly within the technology, life sciences, private equity and REIT sectors – on executive compensation and benefits issues arising through mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, venture capital and leveraged buyout transactions and other transformative corporate events. She regularly advises clients on the adoption, revision and negotiation of executive employment and severance arrangements and on equity compensation arrangements, tax compliance and planning and SEC rules governing executive compensation disclosure and reporting.

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Experience

  • CinCor Pharma to Sell to AstraZeneca for Approximately $1.8 Billion 

  • Horizon Therapeutics to Be Acquired by Amgen for Approximately $28 Billion 

  • Digital Shadows Agrees to Sell to ReliaQuest 

  • Bristol Myers Squibb to Acquire Turning Point Therapeutics for $4.1 Billion 

  • Grindr Agrees to Merge With SPAC Tiga Acquisition Corp. 

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Education

  • New York University School of Law
    LLM, 2000

  • University of Michigan Law School
    JD, 1999

  • Cornell University
    BS, 1996


Admissions & Credentials

California

New York