David Peinsipp

Practice Areas

David is co-chair of Cooley's global capital markets practice group. David practices general business and corporate law, representing both emerging and public companies in a variety of matters, including capital markets transactions, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting and compliance and corporate governance matters. He routinely represents issuers and investment banks in complex securities offerings, including IPOs, follow-on offerings, 144A offerings, PIPEs, deSPACs and direct listings. His practice also includes company formations, venture financings and general corporate matters.

David has been involved in 100+ IPOs or other offerings of debt or equity, including IPOs and direct listings for Uber, DocuSign, Stitch Fix, Snap, Warby Parker, Dutch Bros., FIGS, Root, Atlassian, Yelp, Lyell, New Relic, Wish.com, NerdWallet, Sweetgreen, Doximity, Lulu’s Fashion, Expensify, Xometry, Zynga, LinkedIn, Zendesk, FireEye, MINDBODY, Livongo, Zscaler and Guardant. He is also a market leader in deSPAC transactions, having represented companies, SPAC acquirers or the financial advisors in transactions for companies like WeWork, Grab Holdings, Hyliion, Canoo, Opendoor, Archer Aviation, Supergroup, Xos Trucks, Heliogen, FinAccel and Weedmaps.