Sarah Axtell

Partner

Silicon Valley / San Francisco
sarah.axtell@lw.com
+1.650.470.4993

PRACTICES

  • Capital Markets
  • Emerging Companies & Growth
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Public Company Representation

INDUSTRIES

  • Technology

BAR QUALIFICATIONS

  • California

EDUCATION

  • JD, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law,
  • BA/BS, Emory University,

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 a local leader in Latham’s Bay Area Women Enriching Business (WEB) Committee, a firm-wide initiative developed to promote the long-term success of women executives. She 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)

  • 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
  • Cerebras
  • Intuit Ventures
  • Komodo Health
  • Lime
  • 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