Cooley Maintains Top Rankings in Global M&A and Private Equity

Cooley’s global mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices were again recognized for top ranking positions in Q3 league tables from Bloomberg.* Despite the unpredictable market, Cooley continues to dominate in public and private deals around the world.

Top rankings by deal count include:

• #1 for US and global life sciences M&A
• #1 for US and global tech M&A
• #3 for US and global M&A
• #3 for US and global mid-market M&A
• #3 US private equity deals
• #4 global private equity deals

In 2026, Cooley handled transactions across a diverse range of industries while also maintaining its top position in technology and life sciences. The firm’s market-leading transactions include representing:

• OpenZeppelin in its acquisition by S&P Global
• Yardi in its acquisition of Sidero Labs
• Chimagen Biosciences in its agreement to sell asset to GSK for up to $750 million
• Virtue AI in its acquisition by Fortinet
• Ambros Therapeutics in its $550 million merger with Werewolf Therapeutics and concurrent $150 million private financing
• Lynk Global in its merger with Omnispace, concurrent investments and partnerships with SES and Nelco
• Slate Medicines in its merger with Fulcrum Therapeutics
• Redx Pharma in its acquisition by Skye Bioscience and concurrent $125 million in financings
• Actio Biosciences in its acquisition by Jazz Pharmaceuticals for up to $1.32 billion
• AlixPartners in its acquisition of Artium
• Professional Fighters League in its merger with Most Valuable Promotions
• Procore Technologies in its acquisition of DroneDeploy for approximately $845 million
• Canoe Intelligence in its acquisition by Bloomberg
• Vidya Therapeutics in its sale to Processa Pharmaceuticals
• Research Alliance Corporation III in its combination with Oak Hill Bio
• Copra in its acquisition by The Vita Coco Company
• Scancell in its acquisition of Neuphoria and concurrent $89 million private financing
• Keyrock in its acquisition of BlockFills’ trading and brokerage assets
• Personalis in its acquisition by Tempus AI for $1.9 billion

Since 2021, Cooley’s world-class transactional team has worked on 1,600+ M&A deals for an aggregate value of more than $750 billion – guiding top public and private companies, financial advisors and private equity sponsors in some of the market’s largest and most complex transactions. The M&A and PE groups include 180+ practitioners in major business and technology centers worldwide, representing all categories of participants in transactions.

* The Bloomberg platform data has not been published by Bloomberg.