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Latham & Watkins LLP provides strategic counsel on complex cross-border transactions, regulatory challenges, and financing structures, leveraging its integrated M&A, capital markets, and tax expertise to deliver top-tier counsel. Team head Paul Kukish serves as a key advisor to investment firms such as LGP and Odyssey, recently leading SRS Distribution’s $18.25bn sale to The Home Depot. Co-head Alex Kelly is active across multiple sectors, advising on public and private M&A in infrastructure, technology, and retail. Kristen Grannis has played a crucial role in expanding the firm’s private equity offering in Boston and is highly regarded for her growth equity and venture capital expertise. David Allinson handles leveraged buyouts, take-privates, carve-outs, and joint ventures, with recent work for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. David Beller is widely recognised for his leveraged buyout expertise. Paul Sheridan, noted for his work with Carlyle and Onex, is another key figure in leveraged buyouts. Matthew Cohn joined from Kirkland & Ellis LLP in July 2024, strengthening the Boston practice, while Justin Rosenberg arrived from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in April 2024, bringing additional public and private M&A expertise. Eric Press, who joined from Apollo in February 2024, is valued for his in-house funds knowledge. Meanwhile, Neal Reenan and Ian Bushner departed in March 2024, Tana Ryan and Navneeta Rekhi in July 2024, Eric Schwarzman in January 2024, and Justin Hamill in May 2025.
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Mr. Allinson is the global Co-chair of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and the former Co-chair of the Private Equity Practice and the New York Corporate Department. Mr. Allinson has broad mergers and acquisitions experience, encompassing both public and private acquisitions, dispositions, carve-outs, tender offers, going-private transactions, co-investments, joint ventures and general corporate matters, including corporate governance and takeover defense.
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Corporate Partner
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Key clients
- Apollo Global Management ArcLight Capital Ares Management Ares Management Bridgepoint Advisers Limited CPP Investments CVC Advisors Global Infrastructure Partners Hg Capital HPS Investment Partners Hunter Point Capital KKR & Co. Leonard Green & Partners One Rock Capital Onex Partners Permira Platinum Equity Silver Lake Partners The Carlyle Group TPG
Work highlights
Advised SRS Distribution, a portfolio company of Leonard Green & Partners and Berkshire Partners and the leading distributor in the US in each of the residential roofing, landscape, and pool supply markets, in its US$18.25 billion dollar sale to The Home Depot.
Advised Silver Lake in its completed US$9.2 billion equity investment alongside investment vehicles managed by DigitalBridge Group in Vantage Data Centres.
Advised Permira on its US$6.9 billion take-private acquisition of Squarespace, the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online.