Rachelle A. Polsky

Associate

San Francisco
rachelle.polsky@lw.com
+1.415.395.8169

PRACTICES

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Technology Transactions

INDUSTRIES

  • Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
  • Entertainment, Sports & Media
  • Healthcare & Life Sciences
  • Technology
  • Video Gaming & esports

BAR QUALIFICATIONS

  • California
  • New York

EDUCATION

  • JD, Fordham University School of Law, 2018
    cum laude
  • B.Comm. in International Management, McGill University, 2012

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

  • English

PROFILE

Rachelle Polsky is a corporate associate in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group.

Rachelle advises private and public companies, private equity firms, and strategic investors on a wide range of matters across various business sectors, including the media, sports and entertainment, technology, retail and consumer, and healthcare industries. Her experience includes domestic and cross-border:

  • Public and private mergers and acquisitions
  • Controlling and minority investments
  • Carve-outs
  • Venture capital financings

Before joining Latham full-time, Rachelle was a summer associate in the New York office. While attending law school, she was a member of Fordham’s Dispute Resolution Society and the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal.

Prior to and during law school, Rachelle worked in the international legal & business affairs department of a mini-major film studio and as a paralegal at a boutique entertainment law firm in New York City.

EXPERIENCE

Rachelle's experience includes representing:

  • Skydance Media in its pending merger with Paramount to form “New Paramount” at an enterprise value of approximately US$28 billion
  • Silver Lake on numerous transactions, including its:
    • Lead participation, along with DigitalBridge, in a US$9.2 billion equity investment round by Vantage Data Centers
    • Investment in ProService
    • US$1.35 billion investment in Jio Platforms
    • Acquisition of, and numerous transactions for, TEG, Asia Pacific’s leading live entertainment and ticketing company
  • KKR on numerous transactions, including its investment in BlueSprig Pediatrics
  • TPG’s Integrated Media Company on numerous transactions, including its acquisition of StackSocial
  • Purigen Biosystems in its acquisition by Bionano Genomics
  • Fandom in its:
    • US$146.3 million sale of D&D Beyond to Hasbro
    • Acquisition of a portfolio of entertainment and gaming brands from Red Ventures
  • NVIDIA in its potential US$40 billion acquisition of Arm
  • Vroom in its acquisition of CarStory
  • Postmates in its US$2.65 billion sale to Uber Technologies
  • Aimmune in its US$2.6 billion acquisition by Nestlé
  • Invictus Growth Partners in its acquisition of Revation Systems (n/k/a LinkLive)