Ferish Patel

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About Ferish

Ferish Patel provides strategic advice to clients in the US, Europe, Asia and MENA, across the full-spectrum of corporate matters – including private equity and other financings of all stages, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters. Ferish has helped clients raise over US$150 billion in public and private capital and to achieve liquidity and other exit transactions. This includes advising on several, landmark deals in the technology and life sciences sectors – for example, representing Coupang on its $5 billion US IPO (the second largest US IPO by an international company); Freshworks on its $1 billion US IPO (the largest US IPO by an India-originated company); Flipkart on its $16 billion sale to Walmart (the second largest M&A exit by a technology company); and Opthea on its US IPO (the largest US IPO by an Australian new economy company). Ferish represents clients from Cooley’s New York, Singapore and London offices.

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Experience

Square Peg Leads Paper.id’s Series B

Square Peg Leads Paper.id’s Series B

June 14, 2024

Cooley advised Square Peg Capital, a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders, as the lead investor in Paper.id’s Series B financing.

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Ferish Patel
Partner, Singapore
Lukas Roth
Associate
Yi Jia Ng
Associate, Singapore

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Venture Capital
Fintech and Payments
Asia

Holmusk Closes $45 Million Series B

Holmusk Closes $45 Million Series B

January 9, 2023

Cooley advised Holmusk on its $45 million Series B financing. Partners Ferish Patel and Patrick Loofbourrow led the Cooley team advising Holmusk, a global behavioral health and data analytics company developing a technology designed to support treatment of mental health and chronic diseases.

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Ferish Patel
Partner, Singapore
Patrick Loofbourrow
Partner, Singapore
Yi Jia Ng
Associate, Singapore
Xenia Chiu
Associate, Singapore

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Emerging Companies
Venture Capital
Life Sciences
Healthcare

Pakistan-Based Fintech Platform NayaPay Raises $13 Million Seed Round

Pakistan-Based Fintech Platform NayaPay Raises $13 Million Seed Round

March 7, 2022

Cooley advised NayaPay, a Pakistan-based fintech platform, on its $13 million seed funding round, which is one of the largest seed rounds in South Asia. Partner Ferish Patel led the Cooley team advising NayaPay.

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Ferish Patel
Partner, Singapore
Xander Lee
Partner, Santa Monica

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Emerging Companies
Venture Capital
Fintech and Payments
Asia

Next Gen Foods Announces Record-Breaking Series A

Next Gen Foods Announces Record-Breaking Series A

February 18, 2022

Cooley advised Next Gen Foods, a food-tech startup developing and commercializing innovative and sustainable plant-based food products, on its $100 million Series A funding, which is the largest Series A to date for a plant-based meat company. Lawyers Ferish Patel and Gwenlynne Lee led the Cooley team advising Next Gen Foods, which also included Chris Coulter, Aaron Pomeroy, Susan Choy, Xinwei Li, Hannah Loo, Michael Marietta, Jon Beh and Sanat Deshpande.

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Ferish Patel
Partner, Singapore
Gwenlynne Lee
Counsel, Singapore
Chris Coulter
Partner, London
Aaron Pomeroy
Partner, Colorado
Xinwei Li
Associate, Singapore

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Emerging Companies
Venture Capital
Food and Beverage
Asia

Ula Secures $110.1 Million Series B Funding

Ula Secures $110.1 Million Series B Funding

November 19, 2021

Cooley advised Ula, an Indonesian business-to-business ecommerce marketplace, on its $110.1 million Series B funding round, one of the largest Series B fundraises in Southeast Asia. Ferish Patel and Yi Jia Ng led the Cooley team advising Ula.

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Xinwei Li
Associate, Singapore
Yi Jia Ng
Associate, Singapore
Ferish Patel
Partner, Singapore

Related Practices & Industries

Emerging Companies
Venture Capital
Mergers and Acquisitions
Capital Markets
Asia
India
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Admissions and credentials

Solicitor of Hong Kong

New York

Singapore (Registered Foreign Lawyer, New York)

Rankings and accolades

India Business Law Journal: International A-List Lawyers (2021–2024)

Chambers Asia Pacific: Band 1 for Startups & Emerging Companies (2021–2023)

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific: Leading Lawyer for Start-up and Venture Capital (2023)

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific: Band 1 for Start-up and Venture Capital (2023)

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific: Leading Lawyer for Corporate and M&A (2021–2022)