Jon Avina

Jon’s practice focuses on corporate, securities, governance and related matters for many of the world’s most disruptive technology companies. For 25+ years, Jon has represented a variety of private and public companies on general corporate and transactional matters valued in the billions of dollars – including numerous high-profile initial public offerings (IPOs), venture capital financings, and mergers and acquisitions.

Jon spends a considerable amount of time helping late-stage private companies prepare for their IPO. This includes scaling their corporate governance infrastructure, formulating the key metrics for measuring operational performance and advising on multiclass capitalization structures. By developing a deep understanding of our clients’ businesses on a cross-functional basis, Jon is able to deliver bespoke advice on matters that span an increasingly complicated corporate landscape, making him a trusted adviser to boards and entrepreneurs alike. 

Jon is passionate about client service and ensuring that Cooley’s clients receive skilled advice in a timely manner from both the corporate team and Cooley’s deep bench of subject matter practitioners across the platform.

Jon joined Cooley in 2017. From 2007 to 2017, he was a corporate partner in the Palo Alto office of another multinational law firm, after joining the firm as an associate in 1998.

Jon’s select IPO work includes advising:

• Rubrik
• Instacart
• Freshworks
• Confluent 
• Procore 
• Unity 
• Asana (direct listing) 
• Snowflake 
• CrowdStrike*
• Fastly 
• Zoom  
• PagerDuty
• MuleSoft
• Sunrun
• MINDBODY
• Box
• FireEye
• Palo Alto Networks
• Splunk
• LinkedIn
• Fortinet
• Aruba Networks
• Google

* Indicates underwriter representation

Select speaking engagements:

• Speaker, The L Suite’s 2024 IPO Conference, San Francisco, California, October 2024
• Speaker, “Inside Rubrik: A Legal Teardown and Analysis of the IPO,” TechGC webinar, June 2024
• Moderator, “Client Spotlight: Instacart,” Cooley Market Talks series, December 2023