Gregory S. Grossman

Greg is a founding partner of Cooley’s Chicago office and the co-head of the Chicago corporate group. He primarily works with emerging companies, venture capital funds, multinational corporations and family offices. Greg advises these clients on topics including entity formation, venture studies, day-to-day business matters, boards of directors’ governance, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing transactions, fund formation, corporate venture capital, and joint ventures.

Greg counts among his clients emerging companies such as Snapsheet, PureSpectrum, Elevate K-12, Avant, Aclaimant, Workbox, Songfinch, BenchPrep, Atlas Technology Solutions, Pacaso, Janus Health, Meez Culinary Solutions, AVIA Health, FranShares, Cardiosense, Pinch, Boast Capital Technologies, Mycocycle, Driver AI, Oddbird, Ten Bay Bio and Jocasta Neuroscience. In addition, Greg works with funds and family offices such as Chicago Ventures, Baird Capital, Lightbank, Jump Capital, True Ventures, Energize Ventures, Abundant Venture Partners, Tusk Ventures, MetaProp, Energy Foundry, Network Ventures, New Stack Ventures, Vitalize VC, Superseed Ventures, Hangar Management, Relish Works, JVC Investment Partners, Arsenal Growth, SNAK Venture Partners, Grid Capital and Woodside AI Venture Studio.

In the M&A and corporate venture space, Greg has represented multinational corporations, such as INEOS, Tech Mahindra, Groupon, FTD, SpotHero, Sprout Social, Deere & Company, HallStar, Amount, LivePerson, Equity Residential, PureSpectrum, OpinionLab, AVIA Health, Avant, Snapsheet, Jabbrrbox and Showpad.

Greg is a member of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Technology Council, a member of the Chicago Public Media Business Leadership Council and a contributing author for Lexis Practice Advisor on articles related to technology M&A transactions and capitalization tables. He is a frequent speaker on topics involving venture capital investments, emerging company trends, and mergers and acquisitions, and he has collaborated with industry-leading organizations, such as TechGC, Association of Corporate Counsel Chicago,1871, TechStars, mHub, Portal Innovations, Food Foundry, TechRise, Nucleate, Kaplan Institute, Second Century Ventures/REACH, World Business Chicago, Polsky Deep Tech Ventures, gener8tor, Michigan Tech Week, Matter and the Great Lakes Venture Capital Association.

Greg also has been a guest lecturer for Northwestern University’s Master of Engineering Management Program and Kellogg School of Management’s Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital class, a speaker at the Kellogg PE/VC conference, a perennial judge for The University of Chicago Booth School of Business’s New Venture Challenge, and a judge for the University of Illinois’ Cozad Competition.