Latham & Watkins Advises Investor Group in Acquisition of Reverb From Etsy

Music gear marketplace Reverb announced that two new investors — Creator Partners and Servco — have entered an agreement to purchase Reverb from its parent company, Etsy. Once the deal closes, Reverb will be a privately held, independently operated company backed by two investors that share Reverb’s experience in the music industry and focus on supporting musicians.

Latham & Watkins LLP represents the buyer group led by Servco in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by Bay Area M&A counsel Danny Nordstrom and New York Technology Transactions partner Pelin Serpin, with M&A associates Jennifer Boyd, Rebecca Dixon, and Sydney France and Technology Transactions associates Nick Goshgarian, Gaby Forte, and Jamie Eimbinder. Advice was provided on tax matters by Bay Area partner Katharine Moir, with associate Dennis Poehland; on compensation and benefits matters by Century City/Bay Area partner Julie Crisp, with associate Tayler Daniels; on data privacy matters by Washington, D.C. partner Marissa Boynton, with associate Priyanka Krishnamurthy; on insurance matters by Los Angeles partner Harrison White, with associate Matty McColl; on anti-bribery and anti-corruption matters by Washington, D.C. partner Erin Brown Jones, with associate Leandra Joseph; on trade controls by associates Eric Green and Dillon Curtis; on real estate matters by New York counsel Shira Bressler and San Diego counsel Seth Richardson, with associate Natalia Ortiz; and on debt finance matters by Los Angeles partner Mark Morris, with associate Jennifer Chemtob.