Tim Cook

Tim represents clients in complex civil litigations in state and federal courts and in arbitration proceedings. These matters cover a broad range of issues, including contract disputes, business torts, fiduciary duties, securities class actions, shareholder derivative litigation, regulatory investigations, antitrust disputes, intellectual property and founder disputes.

At Cooley, Tim has secured victories in high-stakes matters for clients in the technology, life sciences and financial industries. Tim has represented top technology companies – including Uber and Google – as well as numerous emerging companies. In addition to his commercial work, Tim maintains a robust pro bono practice. Tim has been recognized for his advocacy multiple times in The American Lawyer’s Litigator of the Week column.

Tim’s representative experience includes:

• Winning a complete defense award for a market-leading investment bank in a binding arbitration brought by a former executive of an acquired company alleging post-acquisition breaches of contract and statutory violations
• Defending a high-growth, venture-backed digital health company in trade secret and fiduciary duty claims in federal court and orchestrating an offensive strategy in the Delaware Court of Chancery leading to a highly favorable global resolution
• Advising a research-phase life sciences company in connection with a dispute alleging breach of fiduciary duties, clearing the path to initial public offering
• Being awarded the Father Cuchulain Moriarty Award by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, recognizing Cooley’s work in proving constitutional violations against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its private prison contractor in a five-day evidentiary hearing in federal court that resulted in among the most sweeping COVID protections in the US for detained immigrants at two ICE facilities
• Delivering a complete defense verdict at trial for Uber in a $400 million dispute and defending the verdict on appeal at the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• Securing injunctive relief to protect core intellectual property on behalf of an innovative food technology company
• Winning dismissal of a putative class action brought by taxi drivers against Uber alleging unfair competition, price fixing and conspiracy
• Winning dismissal of trade secret and tort claims against an innovative insurance tech platform and defending the decision on appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• Successfully representing a life sciences company in a lawsuit alleging breach of employee solicitation agreements in connection with building its national salesforce for a first-to-market drug
• Obtaining judgment for a data infrastructure company in a trade secret and noncompetition case against a former manager who joined a chief competitor
• Successfully representing a venture-backed technology company in a trade secret and employment mobility case brought by an industry incumbent
• Dismissing shareholder derivative claims on behalf of an ecommerce platform
• Securing a complete victory on behalf of the chair of the NCAA Executive Committee in a case brought by the estate of Joe Paterno arising out of the Jerry Sandusky scandal
• Successfully defending a data storage company in a trade secret and unfair competition case
• Achieving a complete victory on behalf of a privately held alcoholic beverages company in a trademark dispute against a competitor
• Obtaining dismissal of whistleblower claims brought by a former senior vice president of a data infrastructure company

Before joining Cooley, Tim served as a law clerk to US District Judge Michael A. Ponsor of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He served part of his clerkship in California, while Judge Ponsor sat by designation on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.