Jodie Bourdet

Cooley advised sustainable lifestyle brand Rothy’s in connection with its strategic investment from Brazilian footwear brand Alpargatas to fuel global growth and expand vertically integrated operations. The transaction will result in a post-investment valuation of $1 billion. Lawyers Jodie Bourdet, Al Browne, Lindsy Solanki, Farzad Tabaee and Meera Patel led the Cooley team advising Rothy’s.

Cooley advised CS Disco on its $246.4 million initial public offering of 7,700,000 shares of common stock, which includes the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. CS Disco, whose securities now trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LAW, is the leading provider of software-as-a-service solutions developed by lawyers for lawyers. Partners Nicole Brookshire, Jodie Bourdet and Nicolas Dumont led the Cooley team.

Cooley advised LegalZoom.com, Inc. on its initial public offering of 21,989,150 shares of common stock, which includes the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, at a public offering price of $28.00 per share, and the concurrent sale of 3,214,285 additional shares of common stock in a private placement at the public offering price of $28.00 per share – for aggregate gross proceeds totaling $705.7 million. LegalZoom.com, whose securities now trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “LZ,” is a leading online platform for legal and compliance solutions in the United States. Partners Tom Hopkins, Jodie Bourdet and Jonie Ing Kondracki led the Cooley team advising LegalZoom.

Cooley advised Datadog on its $745.2 million initial public offering of 24,000,000 shares of Class A common stock. Datadog, whose securities now trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “DDOG,” is a monitoring and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams and business users in the cloud age. Partners Jodie Bourdet and Nicole Brookshire led the Cooley team.

Cooley advised Levi Strauss on its $623 million initial public offering of 36,666,667 shares of common stock. Eric Jensen, Jodie Bourdet and Siana Lowrey led the Cooley team advising Levi Strauss.

Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan served as joint lead book-running managers for the offering. BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Evercore Group served as book-running managers and BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Guggenheim Securities, HSBC, Drexel Hamilton, Telsey Advisory and The Williams Capital Group served as co-managers.

Levi Strauss is an iconic blue jeans and apparel company with products sold in more than 110 countries worldwide. The company’s shares now trade on the NYSE under the symbol “LEVI.”