Gabrielle Forte is an associate in the Los Angeles 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, social media, 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 and corporate financings involving complex IP, technology, and data privacy considerations
Strategic alliances and joint ventures
Intellectual property licensing and commercialization
Technology and AI-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
Corporate team represents the optical interconnect technology platform creator in the strategic acquisition accelerating scale-up connectivity for next-generation data centers.
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