I provide strategic, business-oriented advice to high-growth companies and investors as they navigate legal and business challenges. I view clients as partners and am invested in their success.
About Adam
Adam Dinow heads Cooley’s New York corporate practice. Adam represents clients at all stages of their life cycle, from incorporation to exit, with an emphasis on working with entrepreneurs and fast paced, rapid growth enterprises. He has worked closely with many of the most exciting technology companies in a diverse range of critical transactions, including seed, angel and VC financings; IPOs; and mergers and acquisitions. He also advises clients in complex corporate governance matters and strategic transactions. In addition, Adam has extensive experience representing venture capital funds, angel investors, and investment banks.
Adam is deeply involved in the New York technology community. He formerly served on the board of directors of the NY Tech Alliance, a nonprofit organization with over 60,000 individual and institutional members. He also represents a variety of technology-related nonprofit organizations on a pro bono basis and is a regular speaker and lecturer on corporate law issues at institutions such as Columbia University and NYU. Adam also served as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School, teaching a class focused on venture capital investing and startups.
Prior to joining Cooley, Adam was a partner in the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Education
New York University School of Law
JD, 1996, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
State University of New York at Albany
BS, 1993, Accounting, summa cum laude
Rankings and accolades
Chambers USA: Startups & Emerging Companies – Nationwide (2024)
Legal 500: Key Lawyer – Venture Capital & Emerging Companies