Pelin Serpin advises public and private companies, private equity sponsors, and investors on complex M&A and strategic transactions, with deep experience in technology, intellectual property, and commercial matters.

She guides clients through cross-border acquisitions and divestitures, carveouts, joint ventures, and strategic alliances involving technology-intensive businesses. She has particular experience structuring separation and transitional arrangements and negotiating the commercial agreements that sustain business relationships after closing. She also advises on technology development, IP licensing, and commercialization arrangements. Her practice spans industrial, infrastructure and energy; technology, media and consumer; digital health; and financial services and fintech, with a growing focus on applied AI and robotics.

Pelin serves on Latham’s WEB committee, which fosters inclusion and connection across the firm’s client and alumni networks, and on the Board of Directors of Scale Justice, a nonprofit advancing access to justice through technology.

Pelin’s representative experience includes advising:

M&A and Private Equity

  • The Carlyle Group on its €7.7 billion cross-border carveout acquisition of BASF’s coatings business and its US$1.5 billion acquisition of Worldpac
  • Sequence AI Holdings on its US$7.7 billion take-private acquisition of The Baldwin Group
  • Long Lake Management on its US$6.3 billion acquisition of American Express Global Business Travel
  • Agility Robotics, a humanoid robotics and physical AI company, on its US$2.5 billion merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI
  • Gerresheimer on its approximately €1.5 billion sale of Centor and its Primary Packaging Plastics business to Apax Partners funds
  • CVC on its investment in Chess.com, the world’s largest online chess platform

Industrial, Infrastructure, and Energy

  • Worthington Steel on its cross-border acquisition of Klöckner & Co., a metals processor with operations across North America and Europe
  • AGC Equity Partners on its investment in Atmosphere Data Centers
  • Gentherm on its approximately US$1 billion Reverse Morris Trust combination with Modine’s Performance Technologies business
  • Heramba Electric on its business combination with Project Energy Reimagined Acquisition Corp.
  • The initial purchasers on the convertible senior notes offering of Eos Energy Enterprises, a provider of zinc-based battery energy storage systems

Technology, Media, and Consumer Platforms

  • Omnicom on its acquisition of Interpublic Group
  • ShopMy, a creator-commerce platform, on its unicorn-status funding round and strategic commercial and technology arrangements
  • MadHive on its investment and technology collaboration with Precise.AI
  • IXL Learning on its acquisitions of Rosetta Stone, Dictionary.com, and other educational technology companies
  • EssilorLuxottica on its US$1.5 billion acquisition of the Supreme brand
  • Authentic Brands Group on its acquisitions of the Reebok, Guess, Boardriders, and Champion brands, and its partnership to co-own and manage the Kevin Hart brand
  • Marcolin and its shareholders on a long-term license with The Estée Lauder Companies for TOM FORD Eyewear
  • The underwriters on the IPOs of Birkenstock, Sovos Brands, and Reformation, and Warby Parker on its NYSE direct listing

Digital Health

  • TransUnion on its US$1.7 billion sale of TransUnion Healthcare to nThrive
  • Tempus AI, a leader in AI-driven precision medicine, on its acquisition of Paige, a pioneer in AI-powered digital pathology
  • Zocdoc, the online healthcare marketplace, on its first acquisition, Sohar Health
  • WindRose Health Investors, a healthcare private equity firm, on the recapitalization of Verified Clinical Trials
  • Digital health companies, including AI-powered virtual care, telehealth, precision medicine, and wearables businesses, on technology licensing, development, data, and strategic partnership arrangements

Financial Services, Fintech, and Index Licensing

  • Leading global banks, blockchain, and AI-driven financial technology companies on structuring, developing, and commercializing index-linked financial products, including licensing of indices, data, and methodologies
  • FutureSports on licensing arrangements with professional sports leagues and financial market participants to develop and commercialize sports performance indices and related financial products
  • GCM Grosvenor on the launch of the FT Wilshire Private Markets Infrastructure Index with Wilshire Indexes
  • Figure Technology Solutions on its US$787 million IPO
  • The underwriters on Klarna’s US$1.37 billion IPO

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, Columbia University School of Law, 2016
  • BBA in International Business, Baruch College, 2013
    magna cum laude