Bio

Courtney Tygesson is a founding partner of Cooley’s Chicago office and concentrates her practice in capital markets transactions, with an emphasis on life sciences and technology, and corporate governance and securities law matters. She has experience representing issuers and underwriters in equity and debt offerings. Courtney is a trusted advisor to clients on a variety of transactions, particularly those involving public companies. Courtney’s extensive capital markets experience includes representing issuers and underwriters in IPOs, secondary equity offerings, high yield, investment grade and convertible debt offerings, tender offers and other capital markets transactions. She also advises companies on securities and corporate law matters, including SEC compliance, Exchange Act periodic reports, disclosure issues, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, corporate governance matters, stock exchange requirements, proxy statement planning and preparation, Rule 144 issues, and Section 13 and Section 16 reporting obligations.