Jeff Goldman

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Cooley Advises PrizePicks on Sale to Allwyn for up to $4.15 Billion

September 22, 2025

Cooley advised PrizePicks, the largest daily fantasy sports operator in North America, on its definitive agreement for Allwyn International to acquire a majority stake in PrizePicks.

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CalypsoAI to Be Acquired by F5

September 17, 2025

Cooley advised CalypsoAI, an adaptive artificial intelligence security platform that empowers enterprises to innovate safely, on its acquisition by F5, a global leader in delivering and securing every app and application programming interface.

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Malachite Acquired by Circle Internet Group

August 12, 2025

Cooley advised Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), a global financial technology firm, on its acquisition of Malachite, a high-performance consensus engine from Informal Systems, to support the launch of Arc, a new open Layer-1 blockchain network purpose-built for stablecoin finance, which is expected to debut in testnet later this year.

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Play AI Acquired by Meta

July 15, 2025

Cooley advised Play AI, a startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate human-sounding voices, on its acquisition by Meta.


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Cooley Advises io Products on $6.5 Billion Acquisition by OpenAI

May 29, 2025

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. 

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