Latham & Watkins

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

Latham’s banking and private credit team advises on senior and subordinated loans, bonds, hybrid capital structures, and leveraged and acquisition finance across multiple jurisdictions, including English, New York, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish law. Its capital markets practice is a global leader, representing underwriters and issuers in debt and equity financing transactions, including IPOs, eurobonds, and high-yield debt offerings.

The firm’s derivatives team acts for financial institutions and corporates on OTC and exchange-traded derivative products. Its dispute resolution practice covers cross-border litigation, arbitration, public international law, intellectual property, and white-collar disputes. Latham’s EU and competition team is recognised for merger control, antitrust investigations, criminal cartel defence, and civil antitrust litigation.

Latham has a market-leading M&A and private equity practice, advising corporates, private equity sponsors, funds, and investment banks on complex transactions. Its project finance team is globally ranked, having represented sponsors, lenders, and governments in over 1,000 projects in the last two decades. The restructuring and insolvency team represents debtors and creditors on cross-border workouts, restructurings, and insolvencies, combining finance expertise with knowledge of high-yield bond and private placement markets.

The structured finance group advises financial institutions and issuers on a wide range of asset types, with specialist guidance on Basel II and Basel III. Latham’s tax team provides cross-border tax solutions for M&A, private equity, securities offerings, multinationals, and international tax disputes. The technology and outsourcing team advises on IT acquisitions, licensing, development, protection, and sales.

The environmental practice advises on corporate transactions, contaminated land, regulatory compliance, environmental risks, and climate change issues. The investment funds team works with sponsors and investors on structuring, marketing, and managing funds across strategies such as buyout, credit, infrastructure, and real estate.

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