The growing corporate governance practice at Cooley LLP specializes in assisting boards of established publicly traded corporations and private companies preparing for their IPO. The practice works with high-profile clients such as NVIDIA and Zoom, advising on best board practices, institutional investor voting policies, and SEC compliance. The team is led by San Francisco’s David Peinsipp alongside New York’s Beth Sasfai and Brad Goldberg. Goldberg excels at ensuring clients remain in accordance with securities law and the rules of exchange listings whilst Safsai works with both domestic and international clients with ESG regulations, risk management, and stakeholder management.
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Key clients
- NVIDIA
- Snowflake
- Rubrik
- Instacart
- Zoom
- Confluent
- Dutch Bros, Inc.
- C3.ai
- Everbridge
- Vivid Seats
Work highlights
- Representing Rubrik in ongoing corporate governance matters, advising on the technical and tactical aspects of corporate governance, best practices for boards and committees, securities laws, stock exchange corporate governance standards, proxy advisory firm and institutional investor voting policies, bylaws, and other governance documents and policies, shareholder engagement strategies, shareholder proposals, board and committee meeting attendance, SEC disclosures, and ESG and sustainability matters.
- Representing Instacart in ongoing corporate governance matters, advising on the technical and tactical aspects of corporate governance, best practices for boards and committees, securities laws, stock exchange corporate governance standards, proxy advisory firm and institutional investor voting policies, bylaws, and other governance documents and policies, shareholder engagement strategies, shareholder proposals, board and committee meeting attendance, SEC disclosures, and ESG and sustainability matters.
- Represented Jazz Pharmaceuticals for over a decade and continues to represent the company in ongoing corporate governance and corporate securities work, advising on the technical and tactical aspects of corporate governance best practices for boards and committees, securities laws, stock exchange corporate governance standards, proxy advisory firm and institutional investor voting policies, bylaws and other governance documents and policies, shareholder engagement strategies, shareholder proposals, and SEC and disclosure.
Lawyers
Practice head
David Peinsipp; Beth Sasfai; Brad Goldberg
Other key lawyers
Joe Avina; Chadwick Mills; Sarah Sellers; Eric Jensen