John Logan

Cooley advised Meredith Corporation on its agreement to sell its local media group, which consists of 17 television stations reaching 11% of US households and 30 million viewers, to Gray Television for $2.8 billion. Partners Kevin Mills, Aaron Binstock and Michael Basile led the Cooley team advising Meredith on the deal.

Cooley represented Apollo Global Management in the $3.484 billion acquisition by PE funds affiliated with Apollo of the broadcast television businesses of Northwest Broadcasting and Cox Media Group, CMG’s radio station portfolio, CoxReps, the nation’s largest national television rep company, and Gamut, a national advertising business.

Reston, Va. – Cooley advised investors New Enterprise Associates and Oak Investment Partners on the $70 million series D funding of NextNav.

NextNav is a location services provider that specializes in indoor and urban environments, where GPS is not reliably available. Any mobile device with NextNav's positioning technology can chart its location when a GPS signal is not available, making the company's service especially critical in medical and other emergencies.

According to the Washington Business Journal, "This appears to be the largest round of VC funding for a DC-area tech company so far this year."