Selin Akkan

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Chingona Ventures Closes New $52 Million Fund

May 17, 2022

Cooley advised Chingona Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in founders whose backgrounds uniquely position them to create businesses in growth markets that are often overlooked, on the closing of its new $52 million fund. Lawyers Rachel Goddard, Noah Pittard, Mystery Murphy, Mandy Kondo and Christine Zhao led the Cooley team advising Chingona Ventures.

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Rachel Goddard
Partner, Chicago
Noah Pittard
Partner, Colorado
Mystery Murphy
Special Counsel, Colorado
Mandy Kondo
Associate, Palo Alto
Paul Roberts
Of Counsel, San Francisco
Halima A. Nguyen
Associate, Chicago
Miriam Petrillo
Partner, Chicago
Leslie Cancel
Special Counsel, San Francisco
Jim Fulton
Partner, New York
Christopher Kimball
Partner, Washington, DC
Selin Akkan
Associate, Palo Alto
Aaron Velli
Partner, Washington, DC
Bernard Hatcher
Partner, San Francisco

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SoftBank Vision Fund 2 Leads $100 Million Funding for MindTickle

November 25, 2020

Cooley advised SoftBank Vision Fund 2 as the lead investor in sales readiness company MindTickle’s $100 million financing. Lawyers Matthew Bartus, who co-chairs Cooley’s global emerging companies and venture capital practice, and Rishab Kumar led the Cooley team advising SoftBank Vision Fund 2 on the investment.

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Matthew Bartus
Partner, San Francisco
Rishab Kumar
Partner, Palo Alto
Xinwei Li
Associate, Singapore
Ross Eberly
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Selin Akkan
Associate, Palo Alto

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Vir Biotechnology - $143 Million IPO

October 17, 2019

Cooley advised Vir Biotechnology on its $142.9 million initial public offering of 7,142,858 shares of common stock. Vir Biotechnology, whose securities now trade on Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "VIR", is a clinical-stage immunology company focused on combining immunologic insights with cutting-edge technologies to treat and prevent serious infectious diseases. Partners Laura Berezin, Charlie Kim and Kristin VanderPas led the Cooley team.

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Laura Berezin
Partner, Seattle
Charlie Kim
Partner, San Diego
Kristin VanderPas
Partner, San Francisco
Sara Semnani
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Carlos Ramirez
Partner, San Diego
Chen Chen
Associate, Palo Alto
Sarah Choi
Associate, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Karen Tsai
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Mary Maher Lewis
Special Counsel, Reston
Xander Lee
Partner, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Francis Wheeler
Partner, Colorado
Ivor Elrifi
Partner, New York
Natasha Leskovsek
Of Counsel, Washington, DC
Rick Jantz
Associate, Los Angeles Santa Monica
Mark Windfeld-Hansen
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Phil Mitchell
Partner, New York
Wendy Brenner
Partner, Palo Alto
Koji Fukumura
Partner, San Diego
Kate Hillier
Partner, Seattle
David Burns
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Selin Akkan
Associate, Palo Alto

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