“A rising star and one of my favorite partners to collaborate with on a transaction.”
Chambers USA 2025
“A tireless worker and a thoughtful lawyer.”
Chambers USA 2025
"An amazing partner and business advisor. Her advice is practical and focused to our needs."
Chambers USA 2024
"A wonderful and technical attorney."
Chambers USA 2024
"Sarah is terrific, she is a very smart and very talented attorney."
Chambers USA 2023
"She is a rockstar."
Chambers USA 2022
"She is a really good lawyer, handles clients well and knows the law well."
Chambers USA 2022
Rising Star – Capital Markets
Law360 2020
California Attorney of the Year
The Daily Journal 2020
Profile
Sarah Axtell serves as a strategic advisor on significant transactions to enable her clients to grow and succeed. She advises public and private companies, with a focus on advising technology companies and leading initial public offerings and other capital-raising transactions.
As a nationally recognized lawyer, she brings particular experience handling transactional and corporate governance matters on behalf of growth-stage companies, including leading tech innovators.
Sarah also represents venture capitalists and investment banks involved in private and public stock offerings.
Her representative work includes:
Public offerings
Corporate governance
Public company representation
Venture capital financings
Mergers and acquisitions
Sarah is frequently recognized for her practice work by legal and industry publications, including Law360 (which named her a 2020 Capital Markets Rising Star) and the Daily Journal (which selected her as California Attorney of the Year in 2020).
Experience
Sarah’s experience includes:
Capital Markets (IPOs and Direct Listings)
Cerebras
Lime
Service Titan
Reddit
Rubrik
OneStream
Nerdwallet
ZipRecruiter
Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. I, II and III
Coupang
Doordash*
Bentley Systems*
Snowflake*
Slack*
Lyft*
Okta*
Twilio*
Atlassian*
Penumbra*
Box*
Opower*
Xoom*
Guidewire*
Venture Financing and Corporate Representation
Airtable
Blockchain
Intuit Ventures
Komodo Health
Moloco
Thumbtack
Unite Us
Vercel
Corporate Governance
The Trade Desk in its reincorporation to Nevada
M&A
Okta in its acquisition of Auth0
Slack in its acquisition by Salesforce
Vlocity in its acquisition by Salesforce*
Luxe Valet in its acquisition by Volvo Car Corporation*
Tomfoolery in its acquisition by Yahoo!*
Nexgate in its acquisition by Proofpoint*
Fluidic in its acquisition by Nant Capital*
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
California
Education
JD, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Nationally recognized Capital Markets partner Sarah Axtell honored among California’s leading tech law lawyers for her successes advising technology companies at every stage of the corporate lifecycle, including representing Reddit, Rubrik, OneStream, and ServiceTitan on their high-profile IPOs.
Firm’s Capital Markets Practice once again earns top legal advisor league table rankings across debt and equity products and industries globally in Bloomberg, Dealogic, Deal Point Data, and LSEG.
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