Calise Cheng

About Calise Cheng

Calise represents companies at all stages of their lifecycles, from startup to mega-cap, as well as venture capital firms and other institutional investors. Her corporate practice includes IPOs and securities offerings, venture-backed private financings, governance, and disclosure matters.

In particular, Calise works closely with late-stage private companies in preparing for their IPO. Calise’s key clients have included Rubrik, Allbirds, Freshwork, Asana, Coupang, C3.ai, Oportun Financial, Zoom, PagerDuty, Square, Box and Splunk.

Calise is recognized as a leading capital markets lawyer by The Recorder, which named her Attorney of the Year in 2022.

Recent work

• Rubrik on its $752 million initial public offering
• Allbirds on its $348.3 million initial public offering
• Freshworks on its $1.13 billion initial public offering and on its acquisition of Device42
• Checkr on its $250 million Series E financing round, bringing its valuation to $4.6 billion
• Coupang on its $4.55 billion initial public offering
• C3.ai on its $749 million initial public offering
• Sunrun on its $3.2 billion acquisition of Vivint Solar
• Splunk on its $1.3 billion convertible senior notes offering
• Oportun Financial on its $108 million initial public offering
• Zoom on its $864 million initial public offering and on its $7 billion agreement to acquire Five9
• PagerDuty on its $250 million initial public offering and on its $350 million convertible senior notes offering
• Asana on its direct listing
• The underwriters on Wish’s $1.1 billion initial public offering