About Sale

Sale works with emerging companies in all stages and industries, advising on company formations, venture financings, M&A, joint ventures, and other strategic and corporate governance matters. Sale focuses on building long-term relationships, typically partnering with startups from the very beginning and providing legal and strategic advice along their shared journey toward success. Sale also advises venture capital funds and global corporations on venture investments and complex strategic transactions. In the earlier part of his career, he advised companies and underwriters on initial public offerings, follow-on offerings and other capital markets transactions and assisted public companies with their US Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and compliance work.

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Experience

  • RLWRLD Closes $26M Seed 2 Round

    • RLWRLD Closes $26M Seed 2 Round

    February 25, 2026

    Cooley advised RLWRLD on its $26 million Seed 2 funding round, which brings the total raise amount to approximately $41 million. Partner Sale Kwon led the Cooley team advising RLWRLD, which builds real-world intelligence through robotics foundation models, aiming to revolutionize manufacturing and logistics by allowing robots to see, feel and act with the precision, adaptability and intelligence of human hands.

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    Sale Kwon
    Partner, Palo Alto
    Yichen Liu
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Celine Koh
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Irene Sun
    Associate, Palo Alto

    Related Practices & Industries

    Technology
    Artificial Intelligence

  • Nullify Closes $12.5 Million Seed Funding

    • Nullify Closes $12.5 Million Seed Funding

    February 5, 2026

    Cooley advised Nullify on its $12.5 million seed funding round. The round was led by SYN Ventures, with participation from existing investor Black Nova Venture Capital. Partner Sale Kwon positioned the Cooley team to support Nullify, a San Francisco-based company that has developed the first ever autonomous artificial intelligence workforce for product security.

    Related contacts

    Sale Kwon
    Partner, Palo Alto
    Sarah Choi
    Associate, Santa Monica
    Ben Lima
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Haley Schubert-Nieh
    Associate, Palo Alto

    Related Practices & Industries

    Emerging Companies
    Technology Transactions
    Intellectual Property
    Artificial Intelligence
    Cybersecurity

  • NAVER D2SF Invests in Cashmere

    • NAVER D2SF Invests in Cashmere

    February 4, 2026

    Cooley advised NAVER D2SF on its investment in Cashmere, a data infrastructure platform bridging premium content and the artificial intelligence ecosystem. Partner Sale Kwon led the Cooley team advising NAVER D2SF, NAVER’s corporate venture arm, which supports sustainable growth by collaborating with startups.

    Related contacts

    Sale Kwon
    Partner, Palo Alto
    Ben Lima
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Alice Wu
    Associate, Palo Alto

    Related Practices & Industries

    Emerging Companies
    Venture Capital

  • 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.

    Related contacts

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

    Related Practices & Industries

    Emerging Companies
    Venture Capital
    Artificial Intelligence
    Technology

  • Samsung Ventures Invests in Amperon

    • Samsung Ventures Invests in Amperon

    January 14, 2026

    Cooley advised Samsung Ventures on its investment in Amperon, a Houston-based provider of forecasting and analytics software used by energy retailers, utilities and independent power producers to predict electricity demand, renewable generation and energy prices. Partner Sale Kwon led the Cooley team advising Samsung Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Samsung Group that has particular strengths in semiconductors, data infrastructure and artificial intelligence acceleration.

    Related contacts

    Sale Kwon
    Partner, Palo Alto
    Sarah Choi
    Associate, Santa Monica

    Related Practices & Industries

    Emerging Companies
    Venture Capital
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Admissions and credentials

  • California

Rankings and accolades

The Legal 500 US: Next Generation Partner for Venture Capital and Emerging Companies (2021 – 2025)

Memberships and affiliations

  • American Bar Association (ABA)

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