In a banner year for tech deals across the board, Cooley grabbed key assignments in some of the year’s highest-profile transactions, landing them Tech Deal Department of the Year honors in the California Leaders in Tech Law and Innovation Awards.

Cooley’s Jamie Leigh and Jodie Bourdet led the team advising analytics platform Tableau on its agreement to sell to Salesforce in a $15.7 billion all-stock transaction. Leigh teamed up with partner Ben Beerle to lead the team advising Ellie Mae, a publicly traded cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry, on its agreement to sell to private equity firm Thoma Bravo for about $3.7 billion. That pair teamed up again to lead the firm’s representation of Uber in its deal to acquire JUMP Bikes. The firm also handled company-side representations in a number of the year’s biggest tech IPOs, including Uber, Zoom and PagerDuty.