Cooley builds GO Public on ChatGPT Work to speed IPO prep

Cooley's IPO practice is the setting for this announcement. The firm says it advised on 180 deals globally in 2025, worth more than $51.5 billion, and describes a decade at the top of the US issuer-side IPO market. That volume is the backdrop for its complaint, voiced by Chief Innovation Officer David Wang, that an IPO involves thousands of tasks running constantly and keeps lawyers "always very busy."

What changed technically is how Cooley packages its own experience. Its legal engineers, innovation counsel, and practitioners built what the firm calls an agentic harness, which defines which steps agents can do automatically and where a lawyer must review or validate. Curated precedents supply what Wang calls "baked-in know-how." The stated benefit is a shift from starting with a comparable company's precedent to starting with the client itself.

Dave Peinsipp, a partner and co-chair of Cooley's global capital markets group, describes the aim as "speed to quality" rather than simply doing the same work faster, and frames GO Public as the firm's vision for capital markets practice more broadly. Whether that broader reach materializes is not yet detailed, and the body gives no measure of time saved or cost avoided, only Cooley's account of where lawyer and management attention is redirected. The test is likely to be whether IPO clients and the firm's own lawyers see that shift in practice.