Austin S.
Pollet

A partner in the firm’s San Francisco office, Austin is a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Groups. Austin focuses his practice on representing private equity firms in all aspects of their businesses, including domestic and cross-border leveraged and management buyouts, venture and growth capital investments, divestitures, other mergers and acquisitions, equity financings, restructurings and work outs, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. He has developed a particular concentration on structuring, negotiating and managing the corporate, securities and tax aspects of complex transactions.

Austin has represented many of the industry’s leading private equity firms. Recent representations include advising:

• Apollo Global Management
• Brookfield Asset Management
• Five Arrows
• Foresite Capital
• Francisco Partners
• General Atlantic
• GI Partners
• Golden Gate Capital
• High Bluff Capital Partners
• K1 Investment Management
• Lone View Capital
• Searchlight Capital Partners
• Spectrum Equity
• True Wind Capital