Linh Nguyen

Cooley secured an early summary judgment for Freshworks in a putative securities class action under Section 11of the Securities Act – before class certification and with minimal fact discovery. The case is Sundaram v. Freshworks Inc. (Case No. 22-cv-06750-CRB) The Cooley team representing Freshworks includes partners Brian French and Shannon Eagan and associates Linh Nguyen, Andy Johnson, Trevor O’Bryan, Anne Bigler, Anuva Ganapathi and Claire Olin.

Cooley secured an appellate win on behalf of IonQ, a quantum computing hardware and software company, in the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, affirming the original dismissal of the securities class action and ruling that plaintiffs cannot adequately plead loss causation by relying on a self-interested short-seller report based on anonymous sources.

Cooley advised Veritone, a company building human-centered enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, on the sale of its media agency, Veritone One, to Insignia Capital Group.

Cooley advised Candid Therapeutics, a biotechnology company dedicated to developing potentially transformative drugs to address autoimmune diseases, on its $370 million debut capital raise and three-way merger with Vignette Bio and TRC 2004.

Cooley secured another win on behalf of IonQ, a quantum computing hardware and software company, when a district court issued an order denying the plaintiffs’ attempt to amend their complaint and request that the court reconsider its prior dismissal with prejudice of a consolidated securities fraud class action.