Cooley Adds Two Public Companies Partners in Season of SPACs (1)

Cooley has hired a pair of partners in its New York office to broaden its team advising in one of the hottest areas of finance: special purpose acquisition companies.

Rupa Briggs joins the firm from White & Case, where she was a partner, and Nicolas Dumont arrives from Fenwick & West, where he was of counsel. The pair join the firm’s public companies practice.

The hires come as Big Law firms have experienced a nearly yearlong surge in work helping companies issue debt and list their shares publicly. With record-low interest rates and an uncertain economy brought on by the ...