Mark Medearis

Senior Counsel
mmedearis@cooley.com
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Launching a company is like launching a rocket—if you're off by a fraction of a degree on the launch pad, you can end up thousands of miles from your target. And don't forget the course corrections along the way.

About Mark

Mark Medearis represents emerging growth and public companies, with an emphasis on private financings, public offerings, strategic partnerships and mergers and acquisitions. His clients are primarily in the technology industry, including: software/cloud/software-based services; mobile/wireless/networking; and digital commerce/social media/games. Mark also regularly represents venture capital firms in investments in emerging growth companies.

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Experience

Celona Closes Oversubscribed $60 Million Series C Financing

Celona Closes Oversubscribed $60 Million Series C Financing

April 11, 2022

Cooley advised Celona on its oversubscribed $60 million Series C funding round. The financing round was led by DigitalBridge Ventures, and included participation from all of Celona’s existing investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, NTTVC, Qualcomm Ventures and Cervin Ventures. Partner Mark Medearis led the Cooley team advising Celona, a developer of AI-powered business-critical solutions designed to meet the connectivity needs of AI and edge-compute powered apps in the enterprise.

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Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Frank Bozzi
Associate, New York
Daniel Y. Lee
Associate, Palo Alto

Sense Raises $50 Million Series D Round

Sense Raises $50 Million Series D Round

December 7, 2021

Cooley advised Sense on its $50 million Series D funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Mark Medearis led the Cooley team advising Sense, a developer of an AI-powered talent engagement platform.

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Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Allison Pang
Associate, Palo Alto

BrightFarms Closes $100 Million Series E

BrightFarms Closes $100 Million Series E

November 12, 2020

Cooley advised BrightFarms on its $100 million Series E financing. Partner Mark Medearis led the Cooley team advising BrightFarms, which is a leading next-generation indoor farming company supplying U.S. grocery retailers with packaged salad greens.

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Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Anita Vasudevan
Special Counsel, Palo Alto
Nikita Appaswami
Associate, Palo Alto
Kris Tamashiro
Paralegal Specialist, Palo Alto
Howard Morse
Partner, Washington DC
Megan Browdie
Partner, Washington DC
Julia R. Brinton
Associate, Washington DC

AssetMark $316 million IPO

AssetMark $316 million IPO

July 18, 2019

Cooley advised underwriters on AssetMark’s $316.3 million initial public offering of 14,375,000 shares of common stock, including full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs acted as joint lead book-running managers for the offering. Credit Suisse and Huatai Securities also acted as joint book-running managers and BMO Capital Markets, Raymond James & Associates and William Blair & Company acted as co-managers. Assetmark’s securities now trade on the NYSE under the symbol “AMK.” Partners Eric Jensen, John McKenna, Mark Medearis and Josh Seidenfeld led the Cooley team.

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Eric Jensen
Partner, Palo Alto
John McKenna
Partner, Palo Alto
Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Josh Seidenfeld
Partner, Palo Alto
Milson Yu
Partner, Palo Alto
Natalie Karam
Partner, Palo Alto

MobileIron $100 Million Initial Public Offering

MobileIron $100 Million Initial Public Offering

June 17, 2014

Palo Alto, Calif. – Cooley advised MobileIron on its $100 million IPO. MobileIron offers software solutions that enable enterprises to secure and manage mobile applications, content and devices while providing their employees with device choice, privacy and a native user experience. MobileIron's stock now trades on the Nasdaq Global Stock Market under the symbol "MOBL."

Thus far in 2014, Cooley has advised on 58 completed public offerings, including 29 completed IPOs.

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Eric Jensen
Partner, Palo Alto
Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Josh Seidenfeld
Partner, Palo Alto
Mark Windfeld-Hansen
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Rebecca Givner-Forbes
Special Counsel , Washington DC
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  • San Francisco Magazine: Northern California Super Lawyer