Ali Murata

Alessandra Murata

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amurata@cooley.com
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I enjoy partnering with clients to find practical and novel solutions to complex compensation-related concerns.

About Alessandra

Ali is co-chair of Cooley’s compensation & benefits practice group. She is a leading adviser to companies, management teams, venture capital, boards of directors, and compensation committees on executive compensation and benefits issues arising in every stage of the corporate life cycle – ranging from emerging growth to blue-chip public. She also counsels companies through transformative events, such as mergers & acquisitions, initial public offerings (IPOs), venture capital and leveraged buyout transactions, spinoffs, restructurings, and other transformative corporate events. With more than two decades of practice experience spanning many industries, her current practice focuses on cutting-edge technology and life sciences companies of all sizes, as well as clients within the private equity and real estate investment trust (REIT) sectors.

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RayzeBio Announces Upsized $357.6 Million IPO

RayzeBio Announces Upsized $357.6 Million IPO

September 19, 2023

Cooley advised RayzeBio, a targeted radiopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline against solid tumor targets, on its upsized $357.6 million initial public offering.

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TriSalus Life Sciences Completes Merger With MedTech Acquisition Corporation

TriSalus Life Sciences Completes Merger With MedTech Acquisition Corporation

August 16, 2023

Cooley advised TriSalus Life Sciences, an oncology company with a focus on treatments for patients with liver and pancreatic tumors, on its merger with MedTech Acquisition Corporation.

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Bridge to Life Sells Certain Assets to TransMedics

Bridge to Life Sells Certain Assets to TransMedics

August 3, 2023

Cooley advised Bridge to Life, an organ preservation and perfusion technologies supplier, on its sale of certain assets – including its EVOSS heart and lung and LifeCradle heart perfusion assets – to TransMedics.

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Turnstone Biologics Announces Upsized $80 Million IPO

Turnstone Biologics Announces Upsized $80 Million IPO

July 26, 2023

Cooley advised Turnstone Biologics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, on its upsized $80 million initial public offering.

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Moogsoft Agrees to Sell to Dell

Moogsoft Agrees to Sell to Dell

July 19, 2023

Cooley advised Moogsoft, an artificial intelligence-driven provider of intelligent monitoring solutions that support DevOps and ITOps, on its agreement to sell to Dell Technologies. Lawyers Steve Tonsfeldt, Mark Tanoury, Sangitha Palaniappa and Allison Peth led the Cooley team advising Moogsoft.

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Rankings & accolades

Chambers USA: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation – California: Los Angeles & Surrounds (2022 – 2023)

Legal 500: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans

Business Today: Top 10 Influential Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Lawyers in California (2023)

Silicon Valley Business Journal: Women of Influence Award (2016)

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Comp Talks Series: SEC’s Pay-Versus-Performance Rules – What Now and What’s Next?

The Securities and Exchange Commission finalized the long-pending pay-versus-performance disclosure rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, and as a result, most reporting companies faced significant new disclosure requirements in 2023 proxy statements. 

Listen as Cooley lawyers Amy Wood and Alessandra Murata, with Principal at Compensia Mark Borges, discuss the latest compensation trends and strategies, as well as the challenges that public companies face when balancing legal, tax and disclosure requirements with practical business needs.

She is extremely knowledgeable about her area, and her attention to detail is spot on.

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