GGV Capital Raises $2.5 Billion Across Four Funds
Cooley advised GGV Capital on raising $2.52 billion across four funds, which will focus on tech startups and growth deals in the US and China. The closing represents the largest family of funds raised by GGV since its inception. Cooley partner Jordan Silber led the team advising GGV. GGV Capital […]
Q3 2020 Quarterly VC Update: Logan Bartlett on Continued Strength During the Pandemic as Deal Sizes Surge
In conjunction with our Q3 Venture Financing Report, Sacha Ross sat down with Logan Bartlett of Redpoint Ventures to get his take on the state of venture capital investing. Key Insights On valuations moving forward: “While the amount of capital in the system is so high, it’s discerning in nature, and some of […]
Raise5 on Air – How Fund Formation is Reacting to World Turmoil
On Wednesday, September 30, 1:00 – 2:00 pm PDT Cooley fund formation attorneys John Dado, Eric Doherty and Jimmy Matteucci hosted an interactive discussion at the RAISE5 Conference that touched on a variety of current fund formation topics, including the pace and structure of fund formation activity in 2020, the […]
CFIUS Reform UPDATE: Implications of FIRRMA for Fund Managers
UPDATE (October 8, 2020) We are providing updates on our original post here to reflect the issuance of a final rule by the U.S. Treasury Department which will become effective on October 15, 2020. Between November 2018 (when the first regulations implementing FIRRMA came into effect) and October 15, 2020 […]
SEC Proposes Registration Exemption for “Finders”
The SEC has proposed new rules that would clear up the longstanding difficulty a venture capital fund manager has faced when wanting to use a “finder” for investors in the fund and such “finder” is not licensed as (or associated with a licensed) broker-dealer. This article discusses the application of […]
Investment Funds Beware: Proposed HSR Amendments Would Increase Reporting Obligations
The US Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice announced proposed changes to the rules governing Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filings that, if implemented, would significantly increase the number of transactions that must be reported to the antitrust agencies – primarily by private equity, venture capital and other investment funds – as […]
SEC Broadens the Definition of Accredited Investor to Permit Greater Access to Fund and Other Private Offerings
On August 26, 2020, after over a year’s worth of work examining how it may better simplify, harmonize and improve the framework and rules around exempt offerings under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and heighten protections for investors participating in such offerings, the Securities and […]
Primer: Handling LP Defaults
Historically, the incidence of “serious” defaults (“serious” meaning contribution failures that persist to a point in time at which consideration of enforcement action is necessary) in institutional venture capital funds is quite low. This article is being written half a year into the 2020 pandemic, during a time at which […]