News About Latham & Watkins
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
Latham hires four-partner private equity team from Freshfields in Germany
Defecting team includes Freshfields’ former continental Europe managing partner, Markus Paul
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
Latham & Watkins nearly doubles partner intake in latest promotions round
Firm elevates 40 associates to partner, up from 24 in the previous associate cohort
Latham builds US restructuring bench with Ropes & Gray partner trio
Ropes’ business restructuring chair, Ryan Dahl, leads team move across New York and Chicago
Prominent London M&A partner swaps Latham for Gibson Dunn
Energy specialist Simon Tysoe joins after a decade at Latham
Latham, Linklaters advise on Verisure’s €13.7bn record-breaking IPO
Latham says deal is the largest European private-equity backed listing on record
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
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
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
Wachtell, Kirkland lead on EA’s record $55bn deal to go private
Six law firms called in for video game maker’s acquisition by consortium that includes Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s PIF, the largest take-private investment in history
Latham partner who helped steer Paramount Skydance deal lands CLO role
Makan Delrahim will replace interim legal chief Stephanie Kyoko McKinnon
Trio of firms called in for Fortegra’s $1.65bn sale to South Korean insurer DB Insurance
Ropes & Gray and Sidley Austin advise Fortegra as Latham & Watkins guides DB Insurance
Kirkland, Freshfields called in for drugmaker Zentiva’s €4.1bn sale to GTCR
Kirkland advises buyer as Freshfields guides seller Advent
Davis Polk, Latham in for Klarna’s $1.4bn IPO as US listings rebound
Davis Polk guides Swedish fintech company’s much-anticipated listing on NYSE as Latham counsels underwriters
Ropes & Gray debuts in Milan with Latham PE team
US firm doubles down on Europe with second launch on the continent in six months
Latham, Wachtell lead on Anglo American-Teck $53bn mega merger
Freshfields and Linklaters’ ally Webber Wentzel also among raft of firms called in for mining deal of the decade
Latham, Jones Day called in for Cadence’s €2.7bn Hexagon unit buy
Latham acts for Cadence in acquisition of design and engineering business as Jones Day guides seller
Trio of firms called in for National Grid’s £1.5bn LNG terminal sale to Centrica, ECP
Latham and Slaughter and May counsel the purchasers as HSF Kramer advises National Grid in deal to allow it to focus on its electricity and gas networks
Weil taps Latham for two more IP litigators
Chris Henry and Gaby LaHatte arrive hot on the heels of Weil’s hire of Latham partner trio for new IP, technology and science litigation practice