David Segre

Cooley advised Delphix, a vendor of test data management software, on its acquisition by Perforce, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility and scale along the development life cycle.

Cooley advised StepZen – the developer of a GraphQL server with a unique architecture that helps build GraphQL application programming interfaces (APIs) quickly and with less code – on its sale to IBM. Partner David Segre led the Cooley team advising StepZen.

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Cooley advised Freshworks, a leading software company empowering businesses to delight their customers and employees, on its $1.1286 billion initial public offering of shares of Class A common stock. Lawyers Jon Avina, Dave Segre, Calise Cheng and Sepideh Mousakhani led the Cooley team advising Freshworks.

Cooley advised Endgame, a developer of an endpoint security platform on its agreement to sell to Elastic, a developer of a document-oriented database and search engine technology for $234 million. Partner Josh Holleman led the Cooley team.

Cooley advised underwriters on CrowdStrike’s $703.8 million initial public offering of 20,700,000 shares of common stock, including full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch and Barclays acted as lead book-running managers for the offering. Credit Suisse, Jefferies, RBC Capital Markets, Stifel, HSBC, Macquarie Capital, Piper Jaffray and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey acted as book-running managers. BTIG, JMP Securities, Mizuho Securities, Needham & Company and Oppenheimer & Co. acted as co-managers for the offering. CrowdStrike’s securities now trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “CRWD.” Partner Dave Segre, Jon Avina and Jonie Kondracki led the Cooley team.