Daniel Grooms

Cooley secured rulings on behalf of pro bono client Nakia Roy before the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, granting him compassionate release and overturning his 2001 second-degree murder conviction.

Cooley advised GOGOX, an online intracity logistics platform in Asia focused on the transportation of freight and goods in urban areas, on its HK$675 million (US$86 million) initial public offering of 3,120,000 shares (subject to an overallotment option to issue an additional 4,680,000 shares), which now trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Partners Michael Yu and Will Cai led the Cooley team advising GOGOX, which also included Lisa Yuan, Marcus Chen, Ying Liu, Keke Wu, Jasmine Li, April Wang, Cindy Pan, Shuaiwen Wang, Jieting Zhang and Freeda Li.

Cooley advised Thrasio, a consumer goods company, on its more than $1 billion Series D financing round, which brings the company’s total funding to more than $3.4 billion. Partner Adam Dinow led the Cooley team advising Thrasio.

Cooley represented the League of Women Voters in filing an amicus brief in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, a US Supreme Court case examining New York laws regulating the right of individuals to carry guns in public places. Lawyers Adam Gershenson, Kathleen Hartnett, Daniel Grooms, Adam Katz and Andrew Barr led the Cooley effort.

Cooley advised J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Evercore as part of Grab’s agreement to merge with Altimeter Capital’s special purpose acquisition company or SPAC. The transaction marks the largest SPAC merger in history and values the SoftBank-backed technology company at approximately $40 billion. Will Cai in Hong Kong and Ferish Patel in Singapore led a global team of Cooley lawyers across Hong Kong, Singapore and the US on the transaction.