News About Latham & Watkins
Baker McKenzie boosts London private equity team with partner hire from Latham
Funds specialist Nick Benson arrives after 11 years at Latham & Watkins
‘Absurd’: Judge overturns executive order against WilmerHale
Ruling follows similar orders against Perkins Coie and Jenner & Block being struck down earlier this month
Wachtell, Latham advise on $34.5bn mega-deal between Charter and Cox
Deal will create US cable giant and follows Charter’s acquisition of Liberty Media’s broadband business last year
Latham, Willkie Farr guide Coinbase’s $2.9bn Deribit acquisition
Latham advises Coinbase with Willkie across the table in crypto industry’s biggest deal to date
Latham & Watkins, Paul Weiss lead on Skechers’ $9.4bn sale to 3G Capital
Kirkland & Ellis and Sullivan & Cromwell also called in for footwear industry’s biggest buyout to date
Latham, White & Case guide DoorDash’s £2.9bn Deliveroo acquisition
Cash deal marks largest UK take-private to date in 2025
American Airlines hires Latham & Watkins partner to lead legal team
Anthony Richmond replaces former CLO Priya Aiyar, who left for Warner Brothers in February
Cleary Gottlieb adds five-partner IP litigation team from Latham & Watkins
Incoming group will be based in New York, Washington DC and the Bay Area
Latham & Watkins sees revenue soar 23% to hit $7bn
Los Angeles giant’s PEP tops $7m following 29% growth last year
Paul Hastings hires Latham partner in Boston to co-head new global tech transactions practice
Sarah Gagan will team up with New York-based Amir Ghavi who joined from Fried Frank earlier this month
Freshfields adds Latham M&A partner for Boston debut
Matthew Goulding joins to launch London-based firm’s fourth US office
Latham elects 19 counsel to partner in latest promotions round
Round follows Los Angeles giant promoting 24 associates to partner in January
Herbert Smith Freehills makes twin disputes hire in Hong Kong from Kirkland, Latham
Paul Quinn and Truman Mak join as partners in the firm’s commercial litigation team
Kirkland, Latham, White & Case shepherd Constellation Energy’s $26.6bn Calpine acquisition
Deal will create largest low-emission energy supplier in the US
Kirkland tops global 2024 M&A rankings ahead of Skadden
Deal value jumps 10% in 2024 to $3.2trn with volume down 14% to 50,200
Sidley Austin unveils eighth partner raid on Latham in London this year
Latham’s London finance co-chair Tania Bedi latest to swell Sidley’s ranks
Skadden, Latham called in as Mubadala takes CI Financial private in $8.7bn deal
Canadian firms Blakes, Stikeman Elliott and Wildeboer Dellelce also advise on Mubadala’s largest deal to date
Latham, Jones Day called in as Anglo American sells Australian coal mines to Peabody
Wachtell also acts in cash deal worth up to $3.78bn
Latham & Watkins makes quartet of restructuring partner hires from Weil, Paul Weiss
Incoming group includes Ray Schrock, who joins as global chair of its restructuring and special situations practice
Weil loses trio of high-profile partners to Paul Weiss and Latham & Watkins
Litigators Elizabeth Stotland Weiswasser and Anish Desai head to Paul Weiss, while restructuring partner Ray Schrock joins Latham