News About Latham & Watkins

Quartet of firms guide $17.6bn Caesars Entertainment acquisition

Latham, Skadden, Freshfields and White & Case score roles in deal that will see casino giant’s acquisition by conglomerate owned by billionaire Tilman Fertitta

29 May 2026

Latham & Watkins adds MoFo London chief in M&A team hire

Andrew Boyd joins with two more partners in hire that boosts Latham’s tech M&A credentials in the City

28 May 2026

Pillsbury debuts in Boston with Latham litigation hire

Robert Gilbert joins to launch office targeting tech, health and banking clients alongside four senior Pillsbury attorneys

5 May 2026

Weil hits Latham, White & Case for senior antitrust duo as German buildout continues

Arrival of Ingo Brinker and Niklas Brueggemann follows several transactions-focused hires in Germany over the past six months

21 Apr 2026

Five-lawyer Latham team decamps to August Debouzy in Paris

Latham’s Paris litigation chair, Mathilde Saltiel, takes group of counsel and associates to leading French boutique

13 Mar 2026

Latham raids Wachtell for finance, M&A partner duo in New York

Emily Johnson and Mark Stagliano continue string of historically rare exits from prestigious Wall Street firm

23 Feb 2026

Latham & Watkins adds private equity quartet from Clifford Chance in Paris

Group includes trio of partners: Benjamin de Blegiers, Daniel Zerbib and Gauthier Martin

11 Feb 2026

Latham adds litigation partner duo in Texas from Kirkland, Winston

Hires come ahead of planned office launch in Dallas, according to reports

11 Feb 2026

Skadden further boosts London disputes team with latest partner hire from Latham

Samuel Pape’s arrival follows the hire of Sophie Lamb KC from Latham in January

4 Feb 2026

Skadden hires Latham’s former global arbitration co-chair in London

Sophie Lamb KC becomes Skadden’s second high-profile European partner hire in as many days

15 Jan 2026

Latham adds trio of real estate finance partners from A&O Shearman in London

Team includes A&O’s global real estate finance head David Oppenheimer

6 Jan 2026

Latham hires four-partner private equity team from Freshfields in Germany

Defecting team includes Freshfields’ former continental Europe managing partner, Markus Paul

10 Dec 2025

Cravath, Latham, guide Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros

Cahill and Cleary also score roles advising in bid intended to beat out rival Netflix

9 Dec 2025

Latham & Watkins nearly doubles partner intake in latest promotions round

Firm elevates 40 associates to partner, up from 24 in the previous associate cohort

30 Oct 2025

Latham builds US restructuring bench with Ropes & Gray partner trio

Ropes’ business restructuring chair, Ryan Dahl, leads team move across New York and Chicago

20 Oct 2025

Prominent London M&A partner swaps Latham for Gibson Dunn

Energy specialist Simon Tysoe joins after a decade at Latham

16 Oct 2025

Latham, Linklaters advise on Verisure’s €13.7bn record-breaking IPO

Latham says deal is the largest European private-equity backed listing on record

8 Oct 2025

Trio of firms guide Qualtrics’ $6.75bn healthcare tech firm acquisition

Goodwin Procter and Simpson Thacher counsel Silver Lake-backed Qualtrics as Latham & Watkins acts for target Press Ganey Forsta

8 Oct 2025

Weil adds six PE lawyers in Germany from Latham & Watkins

Partners Sebastian Pauls and Susanne Decker join with four team members as Weil moves to build pan-European PE powerhouse

7 Oct 2025

Greenberg Traurig adds Latham partner duo for Abu Dhabi debut

Firm opens 50th global office with financing and restructuring partner Christian Adams and M&A partner Chris Lester

1 Oct 2025