About Reza

Reza practices general corporate and securities law. He focuses his practice on representing emerging and high growth companies and their investors through all stages of the business life cycle, from startups to public companies. His practice covers a range of general corporate and transactional matters, including venture financings, public company offerings, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.

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Experience

  • Cooley Represents Higgsfield in Its $400M Series B Financing at $5.4 Billion Valuation

    • Cooley Represents Higgsfield in Its $400M Series B Financing at $5.4 Billion Valuation

    August 17, 2026

    Cooley represented Higgsfield in its $400 million Series B financing at a $5.4 billion valuation. The round was led by DST Global, with participation from Tribe Capital, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Smash Capital, Fifth Wall, Valor Capital, Intel Capital, Liberty Global Tech Ventures, Mirae Asset Capital and NTT DOCOMO Ventures. Existing investors, including Accel, Menlo Ventures and GFT Ventures, also participated. Higgsfield is an AI video platform and plans to use the proceeds to fund research and development, expand global infrastructure, hire AI talent and scale its sales operations.

    Partner Sale Kwon led the Cooley team, which also included Reza Safai, Andrew Mettry, Alice Wu, Christopher Kimball and Rebecca Ross.

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    Sale Kwon
    Partner, Palo Alto
    Reza Safai
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Andrew Mettry
    Associate
    Alice Wu
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Christopher Kimball
    Partner, Washington, DC
    Rebecca Ross
    Special Counsel, Washington, DC

    Related Practices & Industries

    Venture Capital
    Emerging Companies
    Artificial Intelligence

  • Higgsfield Closes $80 Million of New Funding, Hitting $1.3 Billion Valuation

    • Higgsfield Closes $80 Million of New Funding, Hitting $1.3 Billion Valuation

    January 15, 2026

    Cooley advised Higgsfield on its $80 million Series A extension round, valuing the company at more than $1.3 billion. The round included the participation of Accel, GFT Ventures and Menlo Ventures. Partner Sale Kwon led the Cooley team advising Higgsfield, a San Francisco-based developer of an artificial intelligence video-generation platform designed to democratize social media video creation.

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    Sale Kwon
    Partner, Palo Alto
    Reza Safai
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Alex Wu
    Associate, Shanghai

    Related Practices & Industries

    Emerging Companies
    Venture Capital
    Artificial Intelligence
    Technology

  • CoreStory Raises $32 Million Series A

    • CoreStory Raises $32 Million Series A

    October 28, 2025

    Cooley advised CoreStory, a leading code intelligence company, on its $32 million Series A financing led by Tribeca Venture Partners, NEA and SineWave Ventures. CoreStory leverages artificial intelligence-driven intelligence models to transform and accelerate legacy system migration and application maintenance. Partner Sale Kwon led the Cooley team on the transaction.

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    Sale Kwon
    Partner, Palo Alto
    Reza Safai
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Andrew Mettry
    Associate
    Irene Sun
    Associate, Palo Alto

    Related Practices & Industries

    Emerging Companies
    Venture Capital
    Artificial Intelligence

  • Higgsfield Raises $50 Million Series A

    • Higgsfield Raises $50 Million Series A

    September 9, 2025

    Cooley advised Higgsfield on its $50 million Series A financing. GFT Ventures led the round, with participation from BroadLight Capital, NextEquity Partners, AI Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Alpha Square Group and other strategic backers. Higgsfield’s platform is designed to simplify and accelerate the process for creating high-quality videos by using artificial intelligence (AI) as its core engine of creativity. Partner Sale Kwon led the Cooley team.

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    Sale Kwon
    Partner, Palo Alto
    Reza Safai
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Elaine Huang
    Associate, San Francisco

    Related Practices & Industries

    Emerging Companies
    Venture Capital
    Artificial Intelligence

  • Dutch Bros Announces $344 Million Secondary Public Offering

    • Dutch Bros Announces $344 Million Secondary Public Offering

    June 12, 2024

    Cooley advised Dutch Bros (NYSE: BROS), a publicly held drive-thru coffee chain, on its $344 million secondary public offering of Class A common stock.

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    Alan Hambelton
    Partner, Seattle
    Allison Peth
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Todd Gluth
    Partner, San Diego
    Timothy Shapiro
    Partner, Palo Alto
    Reza Safai
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Ben Lima
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Jared Scott Abes
    Associate, San Francisco
    Eric Jensen
    Senior Counsel, Palo Alto

    Related Practices & Industries

    Capital Markets
    Tax
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