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Latham & Watkins

Client Satisfaction

The team at Latham & Watkins has a strong footing in the industry, advising its clients regularly on regulatory investigations, agreement and contract negotiation, strategic advice, M&A and refinancing. Gail Crawford co-heads the team and is an expert in data privacy and advises her clients on compliance programs, product counseling, responding to data breaches and regulatory inquiries, advising on organisational structures, commercial joint ventures, and M&A transactions. Fiona Maclean is a key name on the team, advising clients on data privacy compliance and IT and business processing transactions, with a particular focus on cloud computing and data strategy. Andrew Moyle has now retired.

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Key clients

Meta Platforms, Inc.
Abu Dhabi Global Market
Fidelity National Information Services / Worldpay
GTCR
Leonard Green & Partners
Shift4 Payments
Royal London
Lithia Motors
HSBC
PSG Equity
Sasol
Finbourne
Truata
Binance
Farfetch
DigitalBridge Group, Inc.
Snap, Inc.
Intuit, Inc.
NVIDIA Corporation
Credit Suisse
AllianceBernstein
Madison Dearborn Partners
Viasat Inc.
Virtual1
Global Infrastructure Partners
KKR
TeamViewer
Two Circles

Work highlights

Advising Meta in relation to a number of highly complex and multijurisdictional regulatory investigations and inquiries regarding alleged data breaches.
Advised Savvy Gaming Group on its US$4.9bn acquisition of Scopely, Inc., and its US$400 million acquisition of Vindex LLC.
Advised Abu Dhabi Global Market in crafting landmark regulations for Distributed Ledger Technology Foundations.