Brett Cassidy > Latham & Watkins > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Latham & Watkins
99 BISHOPSGATE
LONDON
EC2M 3XF
England
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Position

Brett Cassidy is a corporate partner in Latham & Watkins’ London office where he has practiced law since 2000. Brett was previously in the Los Angeles office and has practiced law with the firm since 1998. He is a member of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice and Leveraged Finance Practice.

Brett advises clients on capital market securities matters and leveraged finance, which to date has included a variety of public and private securities offerings (including Rule 144A offerings), leverage and acquisition financing, bridge financing, restructuring and tender offers, exchange offers, and other liability management transactions, with an emphasis on representing investment banking clients and private equity portfolio companies with respect to high yield debt products. He also advises corporate clients concerning compliance with registration and reporting provisions of the US Securities Act of 1933 and the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > High yield

(Hall of Fame)

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Latham & Watkins is known for ‘best-in-class lawyers and unparalleled commitment to clients, especially in complex financing situations‘. In 2022, the firm acted on 59% of all European high yield issuances, and that figure rose to 74% in 2023, showing how dominant a force it is in the market. With 17 partners in London it has a wealth of talented lawyers to choose from, among them practice head Brett Cassidy and standout partner Matthew Schneider, who handles billion-dollar private placements combining Euro- and dollar-denominated bonds; Jennifer Engelhardt, who is a prominent adviser on deals in the oil and gas market; Jocelyn Seitzman, who advises the world’s biggest investment banks on LBO transactions and securities regulation; and highly regarded acquisition finance and high yield specialist Francesco Lione. Scott Colwell and Pat Kwak left the firm in October 2024.