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Cooley Advises io Products on $6.5 Billion Acquisition by OpenAI

May 29, 2025

Cooley advised io Products, an engineering and product manufacturing company co-founded by Jony Ive to develop, engineer and manufacture a new family of products for the artificial general intelligence era, on its approximately $6.5 billion acquisition by OpenAI. As part of the deal, Ive and his creative collective, LoveFrom, will assume deep design and creative responsibilities across OpenAI. 

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Red Canary Announces Acquisition by Zscaler

May 27, 2025

Cooley advised Red Canary, a top managed detection and response platform that investigate threats while streamlining workflows through automated remediation, on its acquisition by Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS).

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BioMarin Acquires Inozyme Pharma

May 22, 2025

Cooley advised BioMarin Pharmaceutical (Nasdaq: BMRN), a global biotechnology company dedicated to translating the promise of genetic discovery into medicines that make a profound impact on the life of each patient, on its definitive agreement to acquire Inozyme Pharma for $4 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $270 million.

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Datadog Acquires Eppo

May 7, 2025

Cooley advised Datadog (Nasdaq: DDOG), a monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, on its acquisition of Eppo, a feature flagging and experimentation platform that will tightly integrate with Datadog’s existing product analytics suite.

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MongoDB Announces Acquisition of Voyage AI

February 24, 2025

Cooley advised MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB), a leading database for modern applications, on its acquisition of Voyage AI, a pioneer in state-of-the-art embedding and reranking models that power next-generation artificial intelligence applications.

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Chambers USA: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation – California: Los Angeles & Surrounds (2020 – 2024)

Legal 500: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans

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