Eric Jensen

Eric is the vice chair of Cooley and works with the firm’s senior leadership on matters of strategic planning, practice development and firm operations. He has practiced in Silicon Valley for more than 30 years as a corporate securities lawyer. He focuses on representing high-growth, emerging and public technology, consumer and life sciences companies in financings, capital markets and other corporate transactions. He also has extensive experience representing underwriters, such as Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley, as well as a number of leading venture funds. Eric was a member of the firm’s management committee from 2000 to 2018 and the firm’s strategy committee from 2019 to 2021, and he chaired the firmwide business department from 2008 to 2012. He currently serves on Cooley’s Women’s Initiative Strategy Committee.

Eric has advised numerous public companies, including C3.ai., Dutch Bros, NVIDIA, Snap, Tenable and UiPath. Eric has been involved in initial public offerings and other offerings for Appian, Arteris, AssetMark, Atlassian, Alteryx, Avalara, AvidXchange, C3.ai, Cardlytics, Castlight Health, Corsair, Coupang, Datto, DigitalOcean, DocuSign, Dutch Bros, FireEye, Forty Seven, Glu Mobile, LinkedIn, Medallia, MongoDB, MobileIron, NVIDIA, Oportun, Ping Identity, Redfin, RingCentral, SendGrid, ServiceNow, Snap, Tenable, Twilio, UiPath, Wish, Zendesk, Zulily and Zynga.

Eric is ranked in Band 1 for Capital Markets by Chambers USA, where one client said, “He works hard in the trenches with his clients and gives great advice. He always tries to figure out solutions to help the parties come together.” Eric also has been repeatedly recognized as a leading national attorney in publications such as The Daily Journal, The Legal 500 US, Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers.

Eric’s select public company clients include:

• C3.ai
• DigitalOcean
• Dutch Bros
• NVIDIA
• Snap
• Tenable
• UiPath

Eric’s current private company clients include:

• 48 Bio
• Arctic Wolf Networks
• AuditBoard
• Cogniac
• ControlRooms
• Extend
• Egnyte
• Envision Digital International
• Extend
• Gemini Data
• Magic Leap
• Manifold
• Qualia
• Pheast Therapeutics
• Ramen Network
• Saviynt
• Snyk
• Vaccine Company

Eric’s investment bank clients include:

• Bank of America
• Goldman Sachs
• JPMorgan Chase
• Morgan Stanley

From 2000 to 2001, Eric served as general counsel and member of the senior management team at Blue Martini Software.

While at UCLA School of Law, Eric was elected to the Order of the Coif and was an editor for the UCLA Law Review. In 1987, he served as an extern to Judge Arthur L. Alarcón of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.