Cooley Achieves Top Marks in US, Global Capital Markets Rankings

New York – February 11, 2025 – Cooley’s global capital markets practice was recognized based on its leading capital markets activity on year-end league tables from Bloomberg, LSEG Data & Analytics, and Deal Point Data.

The recognitions were based on Cooley’s role in advising on 158 deals globally announced in 2024, comprising more than $41 billion in deal volume for the year.

Cooley’s top rankings include:

• Bloomberg, which ranked the firm #1 on its US Equity Linked – Advice to Issuer league table by deal count and volume, and #2 on its Global Equity, Equity Linked & Rights – Advice to Issuer league table by deal count.
• LSEG, which ranked the firm #2 on its US Equity & Equity Related – Advice to Issuer league table by deal count.
• Deal Point Data, which ranked the firm #2 on its VC-Backed IPO league table by deal count and volume, and #1 on its VC-Backed Life Sciences IPO league table by deal count and volume.

As the most active law firm for technology and healthcare initial public offerings (IPOs), the firm’s market-leading deals include representations of issuers and investment banks in the following representative 2024 transactions:

• Tempus AI on its $410.7 million IPO
• Life360 on its $178.5 million IPO
• Rubrik on its $752 million upsized IPO
• Datadog on its upsized $1 billion convertible senior notes
• Core Scientific on its $625 million convertible senior notes
• Bitdeer on its $400 million convertible senior notes offering
• Septerna on its $331.2 million IPO
• Akeso on its HK$1.9 billion follow-on offering
• Upstream Bio on its upsized $293 million IPO
• Snowflake on its $2.3 billion convertible notes offering
• BioAge Labs on its $198 million IPO
• Uber on its $5 billion investment-grade revolving credit facility
• Zenas BioPharma on its $225 million IPO
• Uber on $4 billion investment-grade bond offering

Since 2020, Cooley’s world-class capital markets team has worked on 965+ deals for an aggregate value of more than $252 billion – guiding top public and private companies, investment bankers, and investors in some of the market’s largest and most complex transactions. The capital markets group includes 180+ practitioners in major business and technology centers worldwide, representing all categories of participants in transactions across industries.

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