#1 Law Firm for US Public Offerings
Why Cooley
- Market leader advising leading issuers, investment banks and investors in equity and debt transactions that raise capital through the global public and private capital markets
- 1000+ completed public offerings in 2016 – 2021
- 300+ completed IPOs and direct listings in 2016 – 2021
- Rare balanced representation of issuers and underwriters
- 7,000+ private company clients give unparalleled deal flow
- Serve as principal corporate governance and securities counsel for 240+ public companies
- Trusted counsel to all the leading investment banks, including BofA Securities, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Jefferies, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley
- One of the most active firms working on capital markets transactions for non-US foreign private issuers
Recognition
- #1 Firm for VC-Backed IPOs for 15+ years (IPO Vital Signs 2021)
- #1 Firm taking Companies Public since 2014 (Deal Point Data 2021)
- #1 Firm for Issuer-side US Technology and Life Sciences IPOs – Overall & VC-backed (Deal Point Data 2021)
- #1 for European FPI US IPOs since 2016 (Deal Point Data 2021)
- #1 Firm for Issuer-Side IPOs (Deal Point Data 2014-2021)
- #1 Firm for Healthcare & Life Sciences IPOs (Deal Point Data 2015-2021)
- Tier 1 for Capital Markets: Equity Offerings (The Legal 500 US 2021-2022)
- Ranked for Capital Markets: Global Offerings (The Legal 500 US 2022)
- Ranked for Capital Markets: Debt Offerings: Advice to Issuers (The Legal 500 US 2022)
- Recognized as Corporate Firm of the Year, and Licensing & Collaboration Firm of the Year, M&A Firm of the Year, Regulatory Firm to Watch and Patent Strategy Firm of the Year (LMG Life Sciences 2021)
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Group contacts
Charlie Kim
Partner
San Diego, Los Angeles – Santa Monica
Yiming Liu
Partner in Charge – Shanghai
Shanghai, Hong Kong
Michael Yu
Partner in Charge – Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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