Latham & Watkins Advises Nscale on Acquisition of Anyscale

Nscale, a full-stack AI cloud platform, has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Anyscale, a platform for scaling any AI workload — data processing, training, inference, and reinforcement learning — across thousands of GPUs.

Latham & Watkins LLP represents Nscale in the transaction with a M&A team led by New York partner Andrew Elken and Los Angeles partner Andrew Clark, with associates Maddy Berg, Sue Kim,* and Kiuree Kim, and assistance from Sammi Rae Casamassino. Advice was also provided on capital markets matters by New York partners Michael Benjamin and Adam Gelardi; on UK corporate matters by London partners Ed Barnett and Hector Sants, and counsel Jennifer Cadet, with associate Toni Adejuyigbe; on intellectual property matters by Washington, D.C. partner Morgan Brubaker and New York counsel Carrie Girgenti, with associate Jamie Eimbinder; on anti-corruption and anti-bribery matters by Washington, D.C./London partner Nathan Seltzer, with associate Emma Bunting; on sanctions matters by Washington, D.C. partner James Barker, with associate Stephen Keith,** on data privacy and cybersecurity matters by Houston/Austin partner Robert Brown, with associates Stu Cobb and Jack Bergantino; on benefits matters by New York partner Bradd Williamson and Chicago counsel Leah Segall, with associate Victoria Wolfe; on insurance matters by Los Angeles partner Harrison White, with associate Enrique Covarrubias; on labor matters by Chicago partner Nineveh Alkhas, with associate Lauren Stark; on real estate matters by Orange County partner Hilary Strong and New York counsel Karen Ritter, with associate Adrianna Robakowski; on regulatory matters by Washington, D.C. partner Mandy Reeves, London partners Simon Pritchard and Stephanie Adams, Bay Area counsel Jason Daniels, and New York/Washington, D.C. counsel Jamie Sadler, with associates Alexandra Clark, Milo Noone, Jewel Drigo, and Kristen Previto; on sanctions and export controls matters by Washington, D.C. partner Les P. Carnegie and counsel Aaron Amundson, with associate Kirk (Dallin) Adams; and on tax matters by Washington, D.C. partner Andrea Ramezan Jackson, with associate Eni Kassim.