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

18 Jun 2025

‘Absurd’: Judge overturns executive order against WilmerHale

Ruling follows similar orders against Perkins Coie and Jenner & Block being struck down earlier this month

28 May 2025

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

16 May 2025

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

13 May 2025

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

7 May 2025

Latham, White & Case guide DoorDash’s £2.9bn Deliveroo acquisition

Cash deal marks largest UK take-private to date in 2025

6 May 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

7 Apr 2025

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

1 Apr 2025

Latham & Watkins sees revenue soar 23% to hit $7bn

Los Angeles giant’s PEP tops $7m following 29% growth last year

11 Mar 2025

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

24 Feb 2025

Freshfields adds Latham M&A partner for Boston debut

Matthew Goulding joins to launch London-based firm’s fourth US office

24 Feb 2025

Latham elects 19 counsel to partner in latest promotions round

Round follows Los Angeles giant promoting 24 associates to partner in January

21 Feb 2025

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

11 Feb 2025

Kirkland, Latham, White & Case shepherd Constellation Energy’s $26.6bn Calpine acquisition

Deal will create largest low-emission energy supplier in the US

13 Jan 2025

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

6 Jan 2025

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

18 Dec 2024

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

28 Nov 2024

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

25 Nov 2024

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

22 Nov 2024

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

21 Nov 2024