David Dalton

Cooley advised io Products, an engineering and product manufacturing company co-founded by Jony Ive to develop, engineer and manufacture a new family of products for the artificial general intelligence era, on its approximately $6.5 billion acquisition by OpenAI. As part of the deal, Ive and his creative collective, LoveFrom, will assume deep design and creative responsibilities across OpenAI. 

Cooley advised Sanity, a content management system that helps build dynamic, content-rich experiences and streamline content workflows, on its $85 Million Series C.

Cooley advised Datadog (Nasdaq: DDOG), a monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, on its acquisition of Eppo, a feature flagging and experimentation platform that will tightly integrate with Datadog’s existing product analytics suite.

Cooley advised DataStax, an artificial intelligence (AI) and data solution provider, on its acquisition by IBM (NYSE: IBM), a provider of global hybrid cloud and AI solutions and consulting expertise.

Cooley advised Machinify, a provider of artificial intelligence-powered software transforming healthcare payments, on its definitive agreement to be acquired by New Mountain Capital.