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Tad Freese

Position
Tad Freese represents technology companies, investment banks, and other public and private companies in their corporate transactions. Tad currently serves as the Managing Partner of the Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices, and previously served as Vice Chair of Latham & Watkins’ Global Corporate Department.
He helps clients navigate both significant transactions and key strategic legal issues to enable them to grow and succeed. Specifically, he advises on:
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- Initial public offerings (IPOs)
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Other public and private debt and equity securities offerings
- Corporate governance issues
- Public company disclosure issues
- Federal and state securities law compliance
Tad draws on more than 25 years of experience at Latham, advising technology companies in Silicon Valley through all market conditions. He has also advised all of the major investment banks on IPOs (for example: Angie’s List, Arista Networks, SurveyMonkey, Twilio, and Wageworks) as well as other significant transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
(Leading partners)Recognized for its prowess in the public and private M&A space, Latham & Watkins LLP routinely advises principal entities and financial advisors on a wide array of high-value M&A transactions, often operating across the energy, tech, healthcare, sports, and media industries. The department is jointly led by New York-based Justin Hamill, a key contact for multibillion-dollar M&A, divestitures, and corporate governance matters, and Mark Bekheit, Silicon Valley partner who leverages his former in-house experience at a Fortune 500 company to advise on tech M&A. In the Bay Area, Tad Freese assists investment banks in complex corporate deals, while Orange County-based Charles Ruck covers general corporate and securities matters in the life sciences sectors, and Ian Nussbaum handles takeover defense strategies from the firm’s New York office.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A: large deals ($1bn+) United States > M&A/corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Antitrust > Merger control
- International trade and national security > National Security
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Government > Government contracts
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense