Forte, Gabrielle (Gaby)

Gabrielle (Gaby) Forte

Associate

gaby.forte@lw.com
    Forte, Gabrielle (Gaby)

    Gabrielle (Gaby) Forte

    Associate

    gaby.forte@lw.com

    Profile

    Gabrielle Forte is an associate in the Silicon Valley office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Data & Technology Transactions Practice.

    Gabrielle advises emerging, mid-size, and public companies across various industries, including software, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, digital health, semiconductor engineering and manufacturing, financial services, transportation, and consumer products.

    Gabrielle regularly advises companies on a variety of transactions and commercial matters, including:

    • M&A transactions involving complex IP, technology and data privacy considerations
    • Strategic alliances and joint ventures
    • Intellectual property licensing and commercialization
    • Technology-related commercial agreements
    • Data privacy and protection strategies

    Experience

    Gabrielle’s experience includes advising:

    • e.l.f. Beauty, a publicly traded beauty company, in its US$1 billion acquisition of rhode, a beauty brand founded by Hailey Bieber
    • An investor group led by Servco in the acquisition of Reverb, a music gear marketplace, from Etsy
    • ServiceTitan on IP and commercial aspects of its US$624.8 million initial public offering
    • CoreWeave, Inc., an AI infrastructure technology company known as the AI Hyperscaler™, in its US$1.5 billion initial public offering
    • Silver Lake Partners in its majority investment in Intel’s Altera business, valued at US$8.75 billion, establishing Altera as the largest pure-play FPGA semiconductor solutions company
    • Intuit in IP and commercial matters on numerous acquisitions and divestitures, including its acquisition of telematics technology from Zendrive, and its acquisition of Deserve’s mobile-first credit card platform
    • AeroVironment, a NASDAQ-listed technology solutions provider that specializes in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and related technologies, in its US$4.1 billion acquisition of BlueHalo
    • American Airlines in a variety of commercial matters
     

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • California

    Education

    • JD, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
    • BA in Health and Human Sciences & Psychology & Law, University of Southern California
      cum laude

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