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Lacework to Be Acquired by Fortinet

June 10, 2024

Cooley advised Lacework, a data-driven cloud security company, on its definitive agreement to be acquired by Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security.

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Steve Tonsfeldt
Partner, Palo Alto
Mark Tanoury
Partner, Palo Alto
Gaël Y. Hagan
Associate, Colorado
Ross Eberly
Partner, Santa Monica
Xander Lee
Partner, Santa Monica
Blake Martell
Partner, San Francisco
Howard Morse
Partner, Washington, DC
David Navetta
Partner, Colorado
Tracy Rubin
Partner, Palo Alto
David Burns
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Kristin O'Hanlon
Special Counsel, San Francisco
Nikita Appaswami
Associate, Palo Alto
Amanda Griggs
Associate, New York
Helen Luu
Associate, Palo Alto
Allison Peth
Associate, Palo Alto
Breanna Qin
Associate, Palo Alto
Christopher Suhler
Associate, Colorado
Genevieve Lim Urban
Associate, Seattle
Natalie D. Vernon
Associate, Colorado
Jeramie Perez
Senior Paralegal, Palo Alto
Kamya Arora
Associate, Palo Alto

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Moogsoft Agrees to Sell to Dell

July 19, 2023

Cooley advised Moogsoft, an artificial intelligence-driven provider of intelligent monitoring solutions that support DevOps and ITOps, on its agreement to sell to Dell Technologies. Lawyers Steve Tonsfeldt, Mark Tanoury, Sangitha Palaniappa and Allison Peth led the Cooley team advising Moogsoft.

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Sangitha Palaniappa
Associate, Palo Alto
Mark Tanoury
Partner, Palo Alto
Tyler Saavedra-Buckley
Associate, San Francisco
Steve Tonsfeldt
Partner, Palo Alto
Ajay Athavale
Associate, San Francisco
David Wilson
Partner, London
David H. Zhou
Associate, Palo Alto
Jia Xie
Associate, London
Tracy Rubin
Partner, Palo Alto
Mickeala Tu
Associate, Palo Alto
Kafeel Azher
Associate, London
John Alec Stouras
Associate, Palo Alto
Nathaniel Hearn Jr.
Associate, Chicago
Michael Gladstone
Associate, New York
Allison Peth
Associate, Palo Alto
Alessandra Murata
Partner, Palo Alto
Jose Luis Gonzalez
Associate, Palo Alto
Ross Eberly
Partner, Santa Monica
Kristopher Kleiner
Special Counsel, Colorado
Bomin Kim
Associate, New York
Eileen Leman
Associate, Los Angeles
Paula Holland
Partner, London
Christine Graham
Special Counsel, London
Rubin Waranch
Associate, Colorado
Allison Kutner
Associate, New York
Stella Sarma
Special Counsel, Brussels
Ann Bevitt
Partner, London

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Lacework Hits $8.3 Billion Valuation With Series D Round

November 24, 2021

Cooley advised Lacework, a data-driven security platform for the cloud, on its $1.3 billion Series D financing round, which brings its valuation to $8.3 billion. Partners Mark Tanoury and Lauren Creel led the Cooley team advising Lacework.

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Mark Tanoury
Partner, Palo Alto
Lauren Creel
Partner, Palo Alto
Nikita Appaswami
Associate, Palo Alto
Allison Peth
Associate, Palo Alto
Jeramie Perez
Senior Paralegal, Palo Alto
John Sellers
Partner, Palo Alto
Sharon Connaughton
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Sarah Oliai
Associate, Washington, DC

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Snowflake – $4 Billion IPO

October 21, 2020

Cooley advised Snowflake on its $3.9 billion initial public offering of 32,200,000 Class A shares of common stock, which includes the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. Snowflake, whose securities now trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “SNOW,” is a cloud software company pioneering the data cloud, an ecosystem where customers, partners and data providers can break down data silos and derive value from rapidly growing data sets in secure, governed and compliant ways. Partners Mark Tanoury, Jon Avina and Seth Gottlieb led the Cooley team.

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Mark Tanoury
Partner, Palo Alto
Jon Avina
Partner, Palo Alto
Kate Nichols
Partner, Palo Alto
Katie Stevens
Associate, Palo Alto
Barbara Mirza
Partner, Santa Monica

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Fastly – $207 Million IPO

May 17, 2019

Cooley advised Fastly on its $207 million initial public offering of 12,937,500 shares of common stock. Mark Tanoury, Jon Avina and Seth Gottlieb led the Cooley team advising Fastly.

BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, and Credit Suisse served as joint book-running managers for the offering. William Blair, Raymond James, Baird, Oppenheimer & Co., Stifel, Craig-Hallum Capital Group and D.A. Davidson & Co. served as co-managers for the offering.

Fastly is an edge cloud platform powering online destinations including Airbnb, GitHub, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, and The New York Times. The company’s shares now trade on the NYSE under the symbol “FSLY.”

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Mark Tanoury
Partner, Palo Alto
Jon Avina
Partner, Palo Alto
Kate Nichols
Partner, Palo Alto
Kealan Santistevan
Associate, Palo Alto
Natalie Karam
Partner, Palo Alto

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