Lukhan Baloch

Cooley advised Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, on its $660 million initial public offering.

Cooley advised StepZen – the developer of a GraphQL server with a unique architecture that helps build GraphQL application programming interfaces (APIs) quickly and with less code – on its sale to IBM. Partner David Segre led the Cooley team advising StepZen.

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Cooley advised SoftBank Vision Fund 2 on its lead investment in Picsart’s $130 million Series C financing round, which brings the creative platform’s valuation to more than $1 billion. Lawyers Alex Kassai, Mary Wilbourn and Lukhan Baloch led the Cooley team advising SoftBank Vision Fund 2.

Cooley advised Coupang, one of Asia’s largest ecommerce companies, on its $4.55 billion initial public offering of 130 million shares of Class A common stock, including 30 million shares sold by selling stockholders. In addition, Cooley advised Coupang on its $1 billion credit line by a syndicate of lenders. Lawyers Eric Jensen, Calise Cheng and Natalie Karam led the global Cooley team advising Coupang on its IPO, which is the biggest IPO in the US this year and one of the top 25 listings of all time based on deal size. Patrick Flanagan led the Cooley team advising on the credit line.