
Mergers & Acquisitions
Private Equity
Technology
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Media & Entertainment
Retail & Consumer Products
Chad G. Rolston is a Partner at Latham & Watkins, based in Palo Alto, California. He specializes in providing solution-oriented counsel to private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and strategic clients in complex transactions. Chad has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and corporate matters across various industries, including technology, healthcare, and media. His background in software sales and engineering enhances his ability to understand the needs of all parties involved in a deal. Chad's notable work includes advising on high-profile transactions for companies like Broadcom and Intuit.
Chad Rolston's representative experience includes advising:
Private Equity Transactions
Internet, Software, and Digital Media
Semiconductor and Technology
Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Silver Lake acquired the target/assets from Vantage Data Centers in a equity investment on 2024-06-14. - Deal value was 92000000000 (source: Extracted) Sector: Technology; Location: Global. - On the acquirer side, Latham & Watkins advised, led by Justin Hamill, Chad Rolston, Farah O.
Jun 14 2024
9B
Private Equity
Partner
2016 – 2024
Corporate Attorney
2011 – 2012

Corporate Associate
2007 – 2011
- ProService acquired ProService from in a private equity on 2023-05-19. - Deal value was 10000000000 (source: Extracted) Sector: Human Resources; Location: USA. - On the acquirer side, Latham & Watkins advised, led by George Miller, Ash Tehrani, Wilson Neely, Shelly Lin, Izzy Lubarsky.
May 19 2023
10B
Private Equity
Boxed, Inc., an e-commerce grocery shopping platform selling bulk consumables to households and businesses, and Seven Oaks Acquisition Corp. (Seven Oaks or SVOK) (Nasdaq: SVOK, SVOKU, SVOKW), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, have announced a definitive agreement for a business combination that would result in Boxed becoming a public company. The combined company will be called Boxed, Inc. upon the closing of the transaction and is expected to be listed in the US under a new ticker symbol. Boxed will continue to be led by Chieh Huang, Boxed’s Chief Executive Officer. Gary Matthews, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Seven Oaks Acquisition Corp., will serve as Boxed’s Chairman of the Board when the business combination is complete. Latham & Watkins LLP represents Boxed in the deSPAC transaction with an M&A team led by New York partner Justin Hamill and Bay Area partner Chad Rolston, with Bay Area associate Tessa Bernhardt and New York associate Trevor Kim. Advice was provided on capital markets matters by New York partner Marc Jaffe and Orange County partner Drew Capurro, with Orange County associates Eric Hanzich, Abby Timmons, and Tiana Baghdikian; on equity-linked product matters by New York partner Reza Mojtabaee-Zamani, with New York associates Polina Tulupova and Jack Neff; on tax matters by Bay Area partner Grace Lee, with Bay Area associate Jacob Meninga; on benefits and compensation matters by New York partner Austin Ozawa, with New York associate Anne Bracaglia; and on data and technology transactions matters by Bay Area partner Michelle Gross, with Los Angeles associate Veronica Ye.~~
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JD, Harvard Law School
2007
BS, American University
2000