Cooley Picks Up Simpson Thacher Public Companies Lawyer Park

Cooley LLP has nabbed Jean Park from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, as the tech-focused law firm continues to grow its public companies practice.

Park, who joins as a partner in Cooley’s Manhattan office, will focus on private companies and investors in the technology and healthcare sectors as they look to go public.

The hire “meaningfully broadens and deepens our capabilities to serve our ever-expanding client base of late-state private companies and public companies, particularly on the East Coast,” Jason Kent, who co-chairs Cooley’s public companies practice group, said in a statement announcing the hire.

Cooley, founded more ...