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Babak (Bo) Yaghmaie is a partner in the Cooley Business department and a member of the Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice groups. He joined the Firm in 2009 and is resident in the New York and Palo Alto offices. Mr. Yaghmaie is the head of the New York Business Technology Group. Mr. Yaghmaie's practice entails the representation of private and publicly-held emerging growth high technology and life science companies, leading investment banks and venture capital funds, with a particular focus on private placements and venture financings, public offerings of equity securities, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Yaghmaie has been involved in many of the leading corporate and financing technology transactions in the New York area, and regularly represents numerous venture-backed companies and venture capital funds. Mr. Yaghmaie was recognized in 2008, 2009 and 2010 by Chambers USA as one of "America's Leading Lawyers," was top-ranked in 2009 by Legal 500 and has been selected as a New York Super Lawyer. Mr. Yaghmaie has represented both issuers and underwriters in public offerings by venture-backed issuers across a variety of industries, including public offerings by Albany Molecular Research, Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Best Software, Emcore, Globix, GoldLeaf Financial Solutions, Hologic, IDX, Innovasive Devices, Knight/Trimark, Media Metrix, MediciNova, Myriad Genetics, Predictive Systems, Progen Pharmaceuticals, StarMedia, Technitrol, Tellium and Trimeris. Mr. Yaghmaie has also served as counsel to many leading investment banks, including Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Friedman Billings Ramsey, Goldman Sachs, Hambrecht & Quist, Morgan Stanley, Robertson Stephens, Cowen & Company and Thomas Weisel Partners. Mr. Yaghmaie has been named among the Top 100 IPO Lawyers in the United States. Mr. Yaghmaie is a faculty member of the Practicing Law Institute. His topics of instruction include venture capital, securities laws, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Yaghmaie has authored chapters in the Securities Filings volume entitled, "Compliance with the Securities Act in the Acquisition Context and in the Venture Capital: Nuts and Bolts volume entitled, "Venture-backed Company Structures 101: Basic Issues to Consider." Mr. Yaghmaie serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Venture Capital Association. Mr. Yaghmaie also is amongst the authors of the widely used book, Venture Capital & Public Offering Negotiation, published by Aspen Law & Business. He is a senior contributing editor of VC Experts' Venture Capital Encyclopedia. Prior to joining Cooley, Mr. Yaghmaie headed the New York Corporate & Securities Technology group and Venture Capital practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Prior to that, he was a co-founding partner of the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Education- Boston University School of Law
JD - Emory University
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