Profil
Gregory H. Cooper is a member of the of the firm’s Corporate group, with much of his practice revolving around the growing group of publicly-traded issuers organized in Nevada, including handling corporate governance issues and a wide variety of transactions, such as securities offerings and reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets and bank financing transactions. Prior to joining the Las Vegas GT office, Greg served as Vice President of Legal Affairs for Ameristar Casinos, Inc. until its acquisition by Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. There, he handled a broad variety of corporate and transactional matters including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, SEC reporting and disclosure, business development initiatives, securities offerings, the secured credit facility, joint ventures, construction of gaming resort properties, real estate acquisitions and dispositions, antitrust compliances, contract negotiations, and process management.
Concentrations
- Corporate governance
- Changing domicile of business entities to Nevada
- Public and private securities offerings and Securities Act regulation.
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Secured credit facilities
- Exchange Act periodic, proxy and ownership reporting
- Equity compensation plans and executive compensation
- Gaming and regulatory compliance
- Real estate acquisition and leasing
- Project design and construction
Expertise
Erfahrung
- Nevada counsel for multiple publicly-traded corporations choosing Nevada as domicile by conversion from other jurisdictions and by transactions splitting and spinning off new Nevada corporations.
- Local counsel for transactions involving, and multibillion-dollar financing transactions for, a family of technology companies that have chosen Nevada as the preferred domicile for their business entities.
- Nevada counsel in a 2022 going-private transaction with a valuation of approximately $8 billion.
- Nevada counsel in an acquisition, valued at over $1 billion, of an online gaming business for publicly-traded stock.
- Nevada counsel in second largest technology IPO of 2017.
- Acquisitions and development of gaming report properties in Black Hawk, Colorado, East Chicago, Indiana, and Lake Charles, Louisiana.°
- Expansions and amendments to a $1.4 billion credit facility.°
- Contracting for the design, construction, and renovation of multiple luxury casino resort hotel properties in projects ranging from $100 to $500 million in value.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Cooper prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Anerkennung durch den Markt
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America
- Corporate Law, 2020-2025
- Securities Regulation, 2025
- Member, State Bar of Nevada
- Executive Committee Member, Business Law Section
Ausbildung
- J.D., Yale Law School
- A.B., summa cum laude, Princeton University
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1993-1994
- Nevada
- California
- New York