Press Release

Confluent Acquires WarpStream

September 9, 2024

San Francisco – September 9, 2024 – Cooley advised Confluent (Nasdaq: CFLT), a data-streaming platform pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure that sets data in motion, on its acquisition of WarpStream, an Apache Kafka-compatible data-streaming platform. With the acquisition of WarpStream, Confluent now has a data-streaming offering for every company no matter the need – whether that’s fully managed with Confluent Cloud, self-managed with Confluent Platform or bring your own cloud (BYOC) with WarpStream.

Lawyers Garth Osterman, Jenny Ge, Caitlin Courtney, Barbara Mirza, Ross Eberly, Timothy Shapiro, Lei Shen, Cristina DeBiase, Joshua Elefant and Allison Kutner led the Cooley team advising Confluent.

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