Addison Pierce

Cooley advised LegalZoom (Nasdaq: LZ), an online platform for legal services, on its acquisition of Formation Nation, a small-business services company.

Cooley advised NETSTREIT on $275 million in additional financing commitments and amendments to its existing credit facilities agented by PNC Bank, National Association; Wells Fargo Bank, National Association; and Truist Bank. NETSTREIT is a Dallas-based real estate investment trust that acquires single-tenant net lease retail properties across the US. Partner Addison Pierce led the Cooley team advising NETSTREIT, which included partners Christina Roupas and Todd Gluth and associates Margaret Barreto and Cam Irwin.

Cooley advised Vance Street Capital, a Los Angeles-based middle-market private equity firm that invests in highly engineered solutions businesses across the industrial technology, medical, life sciences, aerospace and defense sectors, on its acquisition of System Seals, a designer and manufacturer of custom fluid seals for various industrial applications.

Cooley advised Cresta, an end-to-end generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform for contact centers, on the closing of its $125 million Series D.

Cooley advised Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to change lives by changing the course of blood cancer, on its up to $375 million in synthetic royalty and debt financings with Royalty Pharma and Pharmakon Advisors.