Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins is a leading international law firm with distinguished practices across transactional, litigation, corporate, and regulatory areas. The firm’s London office is recognised for handling complex cross-border matters for corporates, investment banks, private equity houses, and governments both in the UK and globally.

Latham & Watkins’ finance practice is highly regarded for its work in banking and private credit, advising on senior and subordinated loans, bonds, hybrid capital structures, and leveraged and acquisition finance under English, New York, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish law. Its capital markets team is among the world’s most active, representing underwriters and issuers in debt and equity financing transactions, including rights offerings, IPOs, eurobond financings, senior note offerings, high-yield debt, and other global equity and debt matters. The firm’s derivatives practice provides both transactional and advisory services to financial institutions and corporate clients on over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivative products.

The London dispute resolution team specialises in complex cross-border litigation, arbitration, public international law, intellectual property, and white-collar disputes. The EU and competition practice operates at EU and member state levels, handling merger control, antitrust investigations, criminal cartel defence, and civil antitrust litigation. Latham’s M&A and private equity practice advises corporates, private equity sponsors, funds, and investment banks on complex cross-border transactions.

Latham & Watkins’ project finance team is consistently ranked among the top global practices, representing sponsors, lenders, and governments in a wide range of projects over the past two decades. The restructuring and insolvency practice advises debtors and creditors on workouts, restructurings, and insolvencies, combining finance expertise with high-yield bond and private placement market knowledge. Its structured finance group represents financial institutions and issuers in complex transactions across diverse asset types, including Basel II and III compliance.

The firm also provides multi-jurisdictional tax services, advising on cross-border M&A, private equity, securities offerings, multinational planning, and international tax controversies. Its technology and outsourcing practice advises clients on IT outsourcings, technology acquisition, development, licensing, protection, and commercialization. The environmental team addresses corporate transactions, contaminated land, regulatory compliance, product-related issues, environmental risk, and climate change. The investment funds practice supports sponsors and investors in structuring, marketing, and operating funds across strategies such as buyout, growth, credit, infrastructure, and real estate in multiple jurisdictions.

Other offices: Austin; Beijing; Boston; Brussels; Century City; Chicago; Dubai; Düsseldorf; Frankfurt; Hamburg; Hong Kong; Houston; Los Angeles; Madrid; Milan; Munich; New York; Orange County; Paris; Riyadh; San Diego; San Francisco; Seoul; Silicon Valley; Singapore; Tel Aviv; Tokyo; Washington D.C.