Nancy Wojtas

Cooley advised Andreessen Horowitz, the lead investor, on its $80 million Series B investment in Story Protocol, the developer of an intellectual property (IP) blockchain platform offering ways to create, govern and license IP for the next generation of digital builders and consumers. This funding round brings Story Protocol to a $2.25 billion valuation. Nancy Wojtas led the Cooley team advising the a16z crypto division fund of Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in bold founders, innovators and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Cooley advised Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in its investment in Story Protocol’s $54 million financing. Story Protocol is a developer of a Web3 technology designed to revolutionize how narrative universes are created. Lawyers Nancy Wojtas, Thomas Heiser and J.P. Mohler led the Cooley team.

Cooley advised Matter Labs on its $50 million Series B funding round. Partners Nancy Wojtas and Alexander Lee led the Cooley team advising Matter Labs, a developer of a scaling decentralized blockchain application intended to remove interaction obstacles between untrusted parties.

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.

Cooley advised Riverwood Capital on leading Nium’s $200 million+ Series D financing round, which brings the Singapore-based business payments company’s valuation to more than $1 billion. Partners Matthew Bartus and Adam Dinow led the international Cooley team advising Riverwood Capital on the transaction, which makes Nium the first business-to-business (B2B) unicorn in Southeast Asia.