Pardis Zomorodi > Latham & Watkins LLP > Los Angeles, United States > Lawyer Profile

Latham & Watkins LLP is experienced across a diverse range of key sectors, including financial services, energy, retail, life sciences, and natural resources, among others. The group is noted for its expertise in bankruptcy and insolvency restructurings, international tax planning, investment funds, M&A, REITs, securities and financial products. Practice co-head Jiyeon Lee-Lim‘s recent activity involves big ticket SPACs that concern both IPOs and business combinations, while in Chicago, fellow co-head Joseph Kronsnoble specializes in bankruptcies – an area in which David Raab and San Francisco-based Kirt Switzer further excel. Washington DC-based Andrea Ramezan-Jackson advises public and private companies on complex tax-structured M&A and IPOs. In Los Angeles, Samuel Weiner and Pardis Zomorodi are noted for their respective strengths in loss preservation and debt cancellation, and REITs. Also recommended are Matthew Dewitz, a seasoned transactional tax attorney, and Houston-based Bryant Lee, who focuses on partnership taxation. All named individuals are based in New York unless noted otherwise.