Taylor Hathaway-Zepeda is a senior associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  Her practice focuses on public and private company mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, equity investments, restructuring transactions and general corporate governance. She works with companies in a broad array of industries, and has extensive experience working with media, entertainment and technology companies and private equity sponsors.  Ms. Hathaway-Zepeda is a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions, Media, Entertainment and Technology, Private Equity and Emerging Companies practice groups.

Ms. Hathaway-Zepeda currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, where she is also a member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Governance Committee.  She serves on the Corporations Committee of the California Lawyers Association, and is a liaison to the Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies Committee of the California Lawyers Association.  She is admitted to practice in the State of California and the State of New York.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Hathaway-Zepeda served as managing law clerk to Chief Judge Sandra Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She received her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a finalist in the 100th Ames Moot Court Competition. Prior to law school, she earned a master’s degree with a focus on international economics from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom as a recipient of the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship. Ms. Hathaway-Zepeda received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard University, where she was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard International Review.

Selected Transactions

• Universal Pictures in its investments and partnerships with:
  • Amblin Partners
  • Blumhouse Productions
• SpringHill Entertainment, a production company founded by LeBron James, in a capital raise from investors including Guggenheim Partners and Sister, the production company founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone
• WndrCo in its formation of Quibi, a short-form premium content distribution platform, including the raising of $1 billion of capital commitments
• The Chernin Group in various investments and transactions, including the sale of its controlling interest in Otter Media, an internet video joint venture between The Chernin Group and AT&T
• Oak View Group in its redevelopment of the Seattle Key Arena and bringing an NHL team to Seattle
• Azoff MSG Entertainment in the formation of LaneOne, a joint venture with Live Nation Entertainment
• F45 Training in its acquisition agreement with Crescent Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company
• La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company in its acquisition of Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals
• AmaWaterways, a luxury river cruising company, in its partnership with travel and hospitality investor group Certares LP
• Array Technologies in its sale to Oaktree Capital’s GFI Energy Group
• Otter Media, an internet video joint venture between The Chernin Group and AT&T, in its acquisition of a majority stake of Fullscreen, a multichannel network
• Group Health Cooperative in its acquisition by Kaiser Permanente
• The Sports Authority in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, including the sale of its IP portfolio and e-commerce platform to Dick’s Sporting Goods
• CVC Capital Partners and Leonard Green & Partners in the sale of Leslie’s Holdings, Inc. to a group led by L Catterton
• The Artémis Group, parent company of Château Latour and Christie’s Auction House, in its acquisition of Araujo Estate Wines
• GI Partners in the sale of Duckhorn Wine Company to TSG Consumer Partners
• The Rubicon Project in its acquisition of iSocket, Inc., a provider of automated online advertising solutions
• Motorsport Aftermarket Group in its merger with Tucker Rocky/Biker’s Choice, a motorsport distribution company
• Platinum Equity Advisors in its acquisition of:
  • Cision Ltd., a global provider of software and services to public relations and marketing communications professionals
  • The water care business of Lonza Group AG
  • Highway Toll Administration, an electronic toll collection and technology company
• Aurora Capital Partners in its acquisition of:
  • Petroleum Service Corporation, a product handling and site logistic services provider
  • Zywave, a provider of insurance brokerage software solutions
  • National Technical Systems, a provider of environmental simulation testing, inspection, and certification solutions
• Leslie’s Poolmart in e-commerce and retail acquisitions including:
  • Nationwide Group Service, Inc. and NPS Pool Supply, LLC, online retailers of pool and spa products
  • Pool Supply World, Inc., an online pool and spa retailer
  • Warehouse Pools, Inc., a pool and spa retailer
• Technicolor in:
  • the sale of the transactional streaming service M-GO to online ticketing service Fandango
  • the acquisition by TiVo of Digitalsmiths, a provider of TV and movie content discovery recommendation services
• Eminence Capital in its investments in:
  • xAD d/b/a GroundTruth, a location-based marketing and advertising platform
  • Quartzy, a laboratory management platform
  • Comprehend Systems, a clinical intelligence and cloud software company
• Alpha Edison in its investments in:
  • The Baby Box Company, a provider of newborn starter kits and parent education programs
  • Emagispace, a modular construction company
• Acumen Fund in its investment in:
  • Sanergy, a provider of waste management services in East Africa