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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Paul Sheridan represents companies and private equity firms in high-stakes transactions and corporate matters. He serves as Latham’s Global Chair of Private Capital, which encompasses all liquid and illiquid asset classes, including the firm's direct lending, restructuring, private equity, private equity finance, real estate, energy and infrastructure, fund formation, and structured credit practices. He has served multiple terms on the firm’s Executive Committee; as Chair of the Income Partner & Counsel Committee; and as Global Chair of the Private Equity Practice.

Paul leverages trusted relationships across the private capital ecosystem and his comprehensive understanding of sophisticated investment strategies to help clients navigate:

    • Leveraged buyouts and other investment transactions
    • Mergers and acquisitions, with extensive experience on complex cross-border transactions
    • Private and public offerings
    • Venture capital financings
    • General company representation

Paul maintains an active pro bono practice, including advising the Center for New American Security, a bipartisan national security think tank, for more than a decade. He also serves as a trustee of the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia.

Paul served as a law clerk to Judge James C. Cacheris, Chief Judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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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.