James Christopher

Cooley advised Mott Corporation – a microfiltration business specializing in the design, customization, and manufacturing of sintered porous metal components and engineered solutions used in fluidic applications – on its definitive agreement to sell to IDEX Corporation for cash consideration of $1 billion, subject to customary adjustments.

Cooley advised PlayAGS, a global gaming supplier of high-performing slots, tables and interactive products, on its definitive agreement to be acquired by the affiliates of Brightstar Capital Partners for $1.1 billion.

Cooley advised augmented intelligence platform DataRobot on its $300 million Series G financing round and its concurrent acquisition of Algorithmia, a machine learning model deployment and management solution. Harley Brown, Pat Mitchell and Pat Argenio led the Cooley team advising DataRobot on the financing, while Brown and Heather Harrington led the team advising on the acquisition.