Cooley LLP’s employment team offers workplace counseling support on executive transitions, board-level issues, and crisis response matters for life sciences and technology companies. The team works closely with their compensation and benefits practice and their cyber, data, and privacy groups. Wendy Brenner leads the team out of Palo Alto, while New York-based Gerard O’Shea drafts and negotiates various employment documents. Boston’s Lyndsey Kruzer joined the team in May 2025, bringing experience in employment disputes for private equity, venture capital, and strategic investors. Joshua Mates, who is based in San Francisco, represents employers in mediations, arbitrations, and other alternative dispute resolution matters.
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Key clients
- Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Work highlights
Acted as primary employment counsel to EPRI for over 20 years, advising on the full spectrum of employment issues and handling ongoing litigation matters across multiple jurisdictions.
Practice head
Wendy Brenner
Other key lawyers
Gerard O’Shea; Lyndsey Kruzer; Joshua Mates