Corporate Partners Receive Emerging Leaders Award

Latham & Watkins corporate partners Alexandra Croswell Kelly and Chad Rolston have been selected as winners of The M&A Advisor’s 2017 “Emerging Leaders Award,” which recognizes M&A professionals under age 40 who have reached a significant level of success and made a notable contribution to their industry and community. 

Kelly, a partner in the firm’s New York office, has a broad-based mergers and acquisitions practice, encompassing acquisitions, dispositions, carve-outs, joint ventures, controlling and minority investments and other general corporate matters. She has developed a particular expertise advising financial institutions, private equity firms, corporate clients and emerging companies in the FinTech and financial services/asset management industry. 

Rolston, a partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office, regularly advises public and private companies, private equity firms and venture capital firms in their strategic and financing transactions, corporate planning and general corporate representation. He has represented clients across a range of industries, including semiconductors, life sciences, internet and digital media, information technology and retail and consumer products.