David Hao Zhou

David Zhou focuses his practice on meeting his clients’ transactional and advisory needs in the areas of technology and intellectual property. David has experience drafting and negotiating a variety of complex intellectual property license agreements, agreements associated with technology and IP acquisitions, and agreements with key customers, developers, manufacturers, suppliers and channel partners.

Cooley advised Freshworks, the AI-powered, unified service operations platform that is fast to deploy, intuitive to use, and enables every employee to be more productive, on its agreement to acquire Torii, a software company helping teams turn hidden SaaS and AI activity into governed, accountable operations. The deal extends Freshservice into software management and AI spend governance.

Cooley advised Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) on its partnership with Rivian Automotive (Nasdaq: RIVN) to help accelerate both companies’ autonomous vehicle plans, expecting to deploy 10,000 fully autonomous R2 robotaxis in the first phase of R2 robotaxi deployment. Uber will invest up to $1.25 billion in Rivian through 2031, subject to the achievement of certain autonomous performance milestones by specific dates, building toward a scaled, fully autonomous fleet of Rivian R2 robotaxis, which will be available exclusively through the Uber platform.

Cooley advised Observe, a top artificial intelligence-powered observability platform, on its definitive agreement to be acquired by Snowflake, the AI data cloud company.

Cooley acted as US counsel for Megaport, the world’s leading network-as-a-service (NaaS) provider, on its agreement to acquire Latitude.sh, a top global compute-as-a-service (CaaS) company delivering high-performance central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure on demand.