Cooley, Covington & Burling on Board with Uber for IPO (1)

Cooley took the legal lead in Uber Technologies Inc.'s much-anticipated filing on Thursday for an initial public offering.

San Francisco-based Cooley partners David Peinsipp, Siana Lowrey, and Drew Williamson led Uber’s IPO legal team, according to an S-1 form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Peinsipp is co-head of Cooley’s global capital markets practice group, according to his firm’s bio page, and represents both emerging and public companies.

Lowrey and Williamson both are listed as members of Cooley’s public companies and capital markets practice groups.

The S-1 also shows that Cooley attorneys “have a beneficial interest in an aggregate ...