Cooley advised Core Scientific, a carbon-neutral vertically integrated blockchain infrastructure and mining company, on its merger agreement with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. The transaction values the combined company, which will be called Core Scientific Inc. and listed on the Nasdaq, at an implied pro forma fully diluted enterprise value of approximately $4.3 billion. Partners Daniel Peale, David Silverman and Nicolas Dumont led the Cooley team advising Core Scientific.