The Legal 500

Latham & Watkins is a leading global law firm serving multinational companies, start-ups, investment banks, private equity funds, venture capital firms, sovereign wealth funds, governments and other organizations from its 31 offices across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the US. The firm is internationally recognized for its practices across a wide spectrum of transactional, litigation, corporate and regulatory areas, and has received considerable market recognition for the handling of landmark matters. Latham attorneys offer legal and strategic commercial thinking to provide clients with innovative solutions to complex business and legal matters.

Main Areas of Practice

Antitrust/competition: Latham provides integrated service to clients facing issues relating to class actions, cartels, in-country and cross-border merger clearance, private antitrust and rapidly changing competition issues in the US and beyond.

Banking: Latham handles financing and funding transactions in the US and around the globe on behalf of lenders, borrowers and purchasers, financial institutions and financial services providers.

Capital markets: Latham’s market-leading practice advises corporate and partnership issuers, underwriters, placement agents and initial purchasers in offerings of equity, equity-linked and debt securities for US and international clients.

Corporate/M&A: Latham handles enterprise-transforming deals for a wide range of strategic acquirers and private equity firms in the US and around the world, as well as day-to-day advice to clients on corporate governance, proxy access and compliance issues.

Cleantech/climate change: Latham’s multidisciplinary cleantech and climate change practices routinely assist clients in analyzing the legal and business issues involved with greenhouse gas regulations and energy development.

Emerging companies: Latham’s practice spans the entire growth cycle of a company, from organization and incorporation, through venture and mezzanine and late-stage funding and initial public offerings to sophisticated transactions for Fortune 100 public companies.

Energy: Latham has a deep bench of attorneys that regularly works across borders and practices to advise on energy-related M&A, capital markets, project finance, regulatory, tax, environmental and litigation matters.

Environmental: Latham’s experience in all aspects of environmental, land use and natural resource law, serves clients in a wide array of industries and in markets across the US and Europe.

Insolvency/restructuring: Latham is a leading global adviser in complex corporate insolvencies, restructurings and workouts.

Intellectual property: Latham’s intellectual property lawyers have significant experience in several industry sectors.

Litigation: Latham’s practice has a strong track record of providing trial, as well as preventative advice and effective crisis management.

Private equity: Latham’s integrated practice includes lawyers specializing in deal structuring and financing, antitrust, executive compensation, tax and employee benefits.

Project development and finance: Latham’s global team of project finance lawyers has the knowledge and experience to advise on structuring, documenting and negotiating a vast array of development and financing agreements.

Tax: Latham lawyers regularly advise on tax planning for multinational corporations, structuring inbound and outbound business and real estate investments.

Supreme Court and appellate: Latham represents both US and internationally based clients in all aspects of appellate litigation before the US Supreme Court.

Chairman and managing partner: Robert M Dell

Number of Partners: 600
Number of Lawyers: 1,400
Total staff: 2,000+