David Shekman

David’s practice focuses on general corporate and securities law. He represents both private and public companies in a range of industries, as well as investors and underwriters. David’s work includes entity formation and organization, governance matters, venture capital, private equity and other private financings, capital markets transactions, Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and compliance, and mergers and acquisitions.

While at Northwestern Law, David interned at Human Capital and Cisco, conducted research on technology in law with professor Daniel W. Linna Jr., and received Senior Research honors for his work on applying quantitative methods to the legal representation of private companies. He brings this research and emphasis on innovation to his practice at Cooley. David was also a recipient of the Northwestern Pritzker Entrepreneurship Prize and a Corporate Legal Operations Consortium Fellow. Additionally, he was a teaching assistant for Northwestern’s negotiation curriculum.

Before his legal career, David was an analyst at Nuveen, where he focused on corporate strategy, data analysis and automation.

Publications

• Co-author, “Designing Fiduciary Artificial Intelligence,” in EAAMO ’23: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023