Mike Lam

Mike represents high-growth companies and investment banks on capital markets and corporate transactions, including initial public offerings (IPOs), other equity offerings, high-yield and investment-grade offerings, and acquisition financing. Mike also has experience counseling clients on general corporate and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting obligations and corporate governance.

Mike’s select representative matters include advising:

Capital markets

• Grindr in its $2.1 billion de-SPAC business combination with Tiga Acquisition Corp. and its ongoing corporate and public company matters
• Heliogen in its $2 billion de-SPAC business combination with Athena Technology Acquisition Corp.
• Annexon Biosciences in its $125 million registered direct offering
• Aspira Women’s Health in its $5.5 million registered direct offering, concurrent private placement, and ongoing corporate and public company matters
• Resideo in its $255 million follow-on offering*
• The underwriters in Sagimet Biosciences’:
  • $85 million IPO
  • $112.5 million follow-on offering
• The underwriters in Apogee Therapeutics’ $345.1 million IPO
• The underwriters in DICE Therapeutics’ $234.6 million IPO
• The underwriters in Ventyx Biosciences’ $174.3 million IPO
• The underwriters in Qualtrics’ $1.15 billion follow-on offering
• The underwriters in 89bio’s $172.5 million follow-on offering
• The underwriters and initial purchasers in Ascendis Pharma’s:
  • $460 million follow-on offering
  • $575 million offering of 2.25% convertible senior notes due 2028
• The initial purchasers in Global Blood Therapeutics’ $345 million offering of 1.875% convertible senior notes due 2028
• The underwriters in IGM Biosciences’:
  • $230 million follow-on offering
  • $97.5 million follow-on offering
  • $22.5 million concurrent private placement
• The underwriters in Arcutis’ $172.5 million follow-on offering
• The underwriters in LumiraDX’s $75.3 million follow-on offering and $25 million concurrent private placement
• The underwriters in Vistagen Therapeutics’ $100 million follow-on offering
• The underwriters in Erasca’s $100 million follow-on offering
• The underwriters in Acutus Medical’s $77 million follow-on offering
• The placement agents in Annexon Biosciences’ $130 million private placement

M&A, private equity, and emerging companies and venture capital

• Several buy-side mergers and acquisitions of technology and artificial intelligence (AI) companies while at NVIDIA*
• Bloomberg in several corporate transactions*
• Atlas Holdings in its acquisition of LSC Communications, pursuant to Section 363 of the US Bankruptcy Code*
• Platinum Equity in certain corporate transactions*
• Warburg Pincus in certain private equity investments*
• Cisco in its acquisition of ThousandEyes*
• Brinker Capital in its sale to Genstar Capital and subsequent merger with Orion Advisor Solutions*
• Exela Technologies in its:
  • $160 million accounts receivable securitization facility*
  • Carve-out sale of SourceHOV Tax to Gainline Capital Partners*
  • Corporate and public company matters*
• Andreessen Horowitz in its investment in the $20 million Series A financing of Stacker
• Altos Labs in certain private company matters
• Full In Partners in its investment in the Series B financing of AutoRABIT*
• Insight Partners in its investments in:
  • The Real Brokerage*
  • Hinge Health*

* Representation handled before joining Cooley

Before Cooley, Mike was a corporate counsel at NVIDIA and a corporate associate in the New York office of another US-based international law firm.

During law school, Mike represented social enterprises, nonprofit organizations and select small businesses as a student attorney in the Social Enterprise and Nonprofit Law Clinic, served as a staff editor and community outreach director of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, and worked as a research assistant for Robert B. Thompson, professor of business law. Mike also externed in the Division of Enforcement’s Whistleblower Office of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Before law school, Mike worked in several roles in the channel operations, compensation and marketing departments of a Canadian telecommunications provider, where he helped develop and implement strategic marketing initiatives, incentive programs and channel compensation systems.