About Brooke

Brooke Nussbaum heads Cooley’s mid-Atlantic corporate practice. Brooke's practice consists primarily of corporate and securities law. She represents a wide range of private company clients, from newly formed startups to high-growth companies, in all of their corporate needs, including corporate governance matters, equity financings, restructurings, recapitalizations and M&A. She also represents private equity funds, growth equity funds, venture capital funds and other investment entities on their investments in technology and life sciences companies.

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Fluidstack Announces Three Data Center Lease Agreements, Including Data Campus Expansion, With TeraWulf

Fluidstack Announces Three Data Center Lease Agreements, Including Data Campus Expansion, With TeraWulf

August 18, 2025

Cooley advised Fluidstack, a premier artificial intelligence cloud platform, on its two 10-year high-performance computing colocation agreements with TeraWulf, including a 30-day expansion option at TeraWulf's Lake Mariner data center campus in Western New York.

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Michelle Garcia Schulman
Partner, Reston
Daniel Goldberger
Special Counsel, New York
Adrienne Beaudoin Deshmukh
Associate, Reston
Brooke Fritz
Special Counsel, Colorado
Brooke Nussbaum
Partner, Washington, DC
Bryan Berman
Special Counsel, Colorado
Ryan Naftulin
Partner, Washington, DC
Robert Jacques
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Katie Adams
Associate, Reston
Dennis Liu
Associate, Reston

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Real Estate
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Solutions
Technology Transactions
Emerging Companies
Litigation

Clay Announces $46 Million Series B

Clay Announces $46 Million Series B

June 27, 2024

Cooley advised Clay, a company that helps go-to-market teams up-level their data enrichment and automate personalized outreach, on its $62 million Series B financing, valuing Clay at $500 million.

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Brooke Nussbaum
Partner, Washington, DC
Emily Lee
Associate, Palo Alto
Josh Seidenfeld
Partner, Palo Alto
John Sellers
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Mark Windfeld-Hansen
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Joseph A. Kroon
Associate, Palo Alto

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Emerging Companies
Tax
Technology

Adagio Therapeutics Raises $336 Million Series C for COVID-19 Treatment and Prevention

Adagio Therapeutics Raises $336 Million Series C for COVID-19 Treatment and Prevention

May 24, 2021

Cooley advised Adagio Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing antibodies to broadly neutralize coronaviruses, on its $336 million Series C financing round. Partners Brooke Nussbaum and Ryan Sansom led the Cooley team advising Adagio.

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Brooke Nussbaum
Partner, Washington, DC
Ryan Sansom
Partner, Boston
Div Gupta
Partner, New York
Sarah Howard
Associate, Washington, DC
Megan Browdie
Partner, Washington, DC
Rubin Waranch
Associate, Colorado
Christopher Kimball
Partner, Washington, DC

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Emerging Companies
Venture Capital
Biotechnology
Life Sciences
Life Sciences Corporate Partnering and Licensing
Technology
Antitrust and Competition
Medtech

IronNet Agrees to SPAC Merger With LGL Systems Acquisition Corporation

IronNet Agrees to SPAC Merger With LGL Systems Acquisition Corporation

March 16, 2021

Cooley advised IronNet on its agreement to combine with LGL Systems Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company or SPAC - a transaction with an equity value of $874 million. The combined company will remain publicly listed on the NYSE under the symbol "IRNT". Partners Garth Osterman, Brian Leaf and Brooke Nussbaum led the Cooley team advising IronNet.

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Garth Angelo Osterman
Partner, San Francisco
Edward Sniezek
Associate, Reston
Brooke Nussbaum
Partner, Washington, DC
David Walsh
Senior Counsel, Reston
Eileen Marshall
Partner, Washington, DC
David Dalton
Associate, Santa Monica

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Cybersecurity
Capital Markets
Mergers and Acquisitions

SnagFilms Sells Indiewire to Penske Media Corporation

SnagFilms Sells Indiewire to Penske Media Corporation

January 27, 2016

Cooley advised SnagFilms on its sale of Indiewire to Penske Media. Founded in 1996, Indiewire.com developed a strong following with its focus on news and reviews for industry insiders and fans of independently produced movies and TV content. Indiewire was acquired by SnagFilms in 2008.

SnagFilms CEO Rick Allen said in a statement that: "After careful consideration of the ingredients that could make the next eight years and beyond even more impactful, we determined that Penske Media would provide the optimum home for Indiewire."

SnagFilms' newest business unit, ViewLift, is a B2B platform service offering a complete end-to-end solution for creating, launching and monetizing video applications on every major digital device. On its owned-and-operated digital properties, the Company offers free movies, TV series and shorts, all on demand and across mobile, set-top box and home entertainment devices. Indiewire.com provides news, information and networking site for independent-content creators, the industry and fans. PMC is a leading digital media, publishing and information services company.

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Keith Berets
Partner, Colorado
Brooke Nussbaum
Partner, Washington, DC

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Mergers and Acquisitions
Technology Transactions
Tax

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