Peter Werner

Practice Areas

Peter Werner is co-chair of Cooley’s global emerging companies and venture capital practice group. Peter’s practice primarily focuses on the representation of high growth companies and their investors. He regularly assists clients with financings and mergers and acquisitions, in addition to entity formation, governance matters and securities transactions. Peter is a member of Cooley's firmwide pro bono and mental health and wellness committees.

Peter also is one of the founders and curators of Cooley GO, a microsite with tools, forms, guidance and data for entrepreneurs and emerging companies.

Peter represents companies across many of the industries that are most prominent in the Bay Area and beyond startup ecosystem, including consumer products, fintech, insurtech, enterprise software and healthcare technology, and include AgentSync, Allbirds, Almanac, AngelList, Ceres Imaging, Cotopaxi, Cover, Crafty, Cresta.ai, Digisure, Embodied Intelligence, Enlitic, Framr, Full Harvest, Fundbox, Graft, Hadrian, Lattice, Leaselock, Limit Break, Lobus, LoveFrom, Lytics, Matician, Medely, Mill, NEXT Trucking, nTopology, Olive AI, Origin Materials, Particle, Polywork, Swing Education, System, VSCO, Varda, Verifiable and Welkin Health.

Investors Peter has recently represented include 01 Advisors, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Anthos Capital, Better Ventures, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Coatue, Founders Fund, General Catalyst Partners, Lux Capital, Mucker Capital, Nanodimension, Polaris Partners, Root Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Sandbox Cultivian, Softbank Vision Fund, Telstra Ventures, Temasek and Valtruis.

Mergers and acquisitions on which Peter has worked include the sale of 6d.ai to Niantic, the sale of 100+ to PracticeFusion, the purchase by AOL of Vidible, the sale of Aggregate Knowledge to Neustar, the sale of Airpost to Box, the sale of Baton Trucking to Ryder, the sale of DeskConnect to Apple, the sale of eMeter to Siemens, the sale of ContainerX to Cisco, the sale of Earnest to Navient, the sale of emailage to LexisNexis Risk Solutions, the sale of Frontleaf to Zuora, the sale by Granular of its soil testing business to Monsanto, the sale of Granular to Dupont/Pioneer, the sale of Harbor to BitGo, the sale of Ingenuity Systems to QIAGEN, the sale of Lookflow to Yahoo!, the sale of OneFinance to Walmart's fintech venture, the purchase by Opera Software of Handster, the purchase by Olive AI of Verata, the sale of Ringadoc to PracticeFusion, the purchase by Salesforce.com of Assistly, the sale of Stackcommerce to TPG, the sale by Sverica International of Accuvant to Blackstone, the purchase by Sverica International of 7Summits, the sale of Travelbank to U.S. Bank, the sale of Vibrant Data to Slice Technologies (Rakuten), the purchase by VSCO of Rylo and Trash, the sale of Wagon to Box, the sale of Wand Labs to Microsoft and the sale of Zeega to BuzzFeed.

Career

Peter serves on the board of directors of the Full Circle Fund, a nonprofit engaged philanthropy organization, and Imagine H2O, a nonprofit organization accelerating solutions to water problems. He also serves as a mentor at MuckerLab, a Los Angeles-based startup accelerator.