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Meanwhile Closes $82 Million Financing

October 7, 2025

Cooley advised Meanwhile, which provides bitcoin-denominated life insurance as a way of facilitating tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term bitcoin holders, on its $82 million financing round, bringing Meanwhile’s total funding in 2025 to $122 million.

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Derek Colla
Partner, Miami
Barry Kuang
Associate, Boston
Diana Cao
Associate, Boston
Jeffrey J. Tolin
Partner, New York
Alexis Johnson
Associate, Boston
Alfred Browne
Partner, Boston
Jim Fulton
Partner, New York
John Sellers
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Megan Boss
Senior Paralegal , Boston
Brandon Lefebvre
Quantitative Analyst, Boston

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DoubleZero Secures No-Action Relief From SEC

September 29, 2025

Cooley advised DoubleZero Foundation, which secured a first-of-its kind no action letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission clarifying that programmatic distributions of 2Z tokens are not securities transactions.

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Derek Colla
Partner, Miami
Rodrigo Seira
Special Counsel, Miami
Connor Tweardy
Associate, Miami

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Forward Industries Announces $1.65 Billion PIPE Offering

September 11, 2025

Cooley advised Jump Crypto as a sponsor in connection with $1.65 billion in cash and stablecoin commitments for a private investment in public equity (PIPE) offering by Forward Industries, a global design company serving top-tier medical and technology companies, to initiate a Solana-focused digital asset treasury strategy, aligning Forward Industries with the fast-growing Solana ecosystem.

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Yvan-Claude Pierre
Partner, New York
Daniel I. Goldberg
Partner, New York
Derek Colla
Partner, Miami
Stephanie Gentile
Partner, New York
Minkyu Park
Special Counsel, New York
David Peinsipp
Partner, San Francisco
Samuel Paullin
Associate, Chicago
Leah Duncan
Associate, Chicago
Benjamin Shulman
Associate, New York
Todd Gluth
Partner, San Diego

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Meanwhile Closes $40 Million Series A

April 10, 2025

Cooley advised Meanwhile, an insurtech company that leverages cryptocurrency, on its $40 million Series A financing round. Lawyers Derek Colla and Barry Kuang led the Cooley team advising Meanwhile.

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Derek Colla
Partner, Miami
Barry Kuang
Associate, Boston
Megan Boss
Senior Paralegal , Boston
Jeffrey J. Tolin
Partner, New York
Erica Russell
Associate, San Francisco

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Yurts Raises $40 Million Series B

December 3, 2024

Cooley advised Yurts, an artificial intelligence integration platform that can be deployed within high-security businesses, including the US Department of Defense, on its $40 million Series B.

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Derek Colla
Partner, Miami
Katherine King
Associate, Washington, DC
Jim Fulton
Partner, New York
Christian Plaza
Partner, Reston
Grant Schweikert
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Bomin Kim
Associate, New York
James Taylor
Patent Technical Advisor, London
Brandon Lefebvre
Quantitative Analyst, Boston

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