Family Law

• Adoption
  In Los Angeles, lawyers dedicate significant pro bono time to causes including individual adoptions and guardianships, fair housing and tenants’ rights, Holocaust reparations, Innocence Project cases, and special education.
• Guardianship
  In Century City, lawyers dedicate significant pro bono time to causes including individual adoptions and guardianships, fair housing and tenants’ rights, Holocaust reparations, Innocence Project cases, and special education.

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  As one of the world’s largest pro bono providers, Latham takes on matters in nearly every area of public interest law. In Paris, our pro bono causes include working with social entrepreneurs and not-for-profit organizations, including the French humanitarian organization Droits d’Urgence to run a biweekly clinic at a hospital in the north of the city. Together, we help indigent clients address the legal, cultural, social, and linguistic hurdles that arise when navigating complex government bureaucracies. Our lawyers advise on asylum and immigration, debt, labor and employment, as well as criminal law, and assist with applications to public benefit programs. We also advise many Ashoka Fellows to help them establish their projects within an appropriate legal framework.
• Money Laundering
  Our lawyers rank among the very top practitioners in the region. We regularly advise on the most transformative capital markets offerings, private equity, and M&A transactions in every major jurisdiction. We act for financial institutions, sponsors, and major corporates on complex disputes, and guide multinationals through the increasingly complex web of anti-money laundering, sanctions, and export controls regimes. We represent sponsors and lenders in the region’s landmark project finance matters and infrastructure projects. And increasingly, we advise on the emerging ESG and sustainability issues affecting companies with operations in Asia.

Business and Corporate Law

• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Massachusetts Powerhouse: “The office's anchor practice areas — including mergers and acquisitions and private equity, emerging companies and litigation — are humming with no signs of slowing down.”
• Business Disputes
  China Business Law Journal highlighted Latham’s work on landmark M&A, capital markets, restructuring, venture capital, and litigation matters.
• Intellectual Property
  We work with a diverse array of Israeli accelerators and companies at every stage of the corporate life cycle, providing access to an international network of investor relationships, and sophisticated counsel that draws on one of the world’s largest private equity and venture capital practices, trailblazing IPO experience, and a formidable track record in high-stakes M&A and technology transactions. When disputes and crises arise, our seasoned litigators bring insightful representation to matters ranging from highly technical intellectual property litigation to rapid data breach and cyberattack response.
• Unfair Competition
  China’s SAMR published a draft amendment to the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, which overhauls the commercial bribery provisions for giving, instructing, and accepting bribes.
• Antitrust

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Latham & Watkins LLP represents Silver Lake in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by New York partners Justin Hamill and Michael Anastasio, Chicago partner Max Schleusener, and Century City partner Andrew Clark, with associates Sašo Kraner, Megan Staub, Kevin Uhler, Daniel Weissman, Shelton Taylor, Jay Trewn, and Junhan Zhang. Advice was also provided on tax matters by Bay Area partner Katharine Moir, with associate Christine Mainguy; on intellectual property matters by Bay Area partner Tony Klein and Washington, D.C. partner Morgan Brubaker, with associates Andrew Abokhair and Caroline Omotayo; on benefits and compensation matters by New York partner Erin Murphy, with associates Courtney Thomson and Vanessa King; on data privacy matters by Bay Area partner Robert Blamires, with associates Jennifer Howes and Alice Brunning; on private equity finance matters by New York partners Joshua Tinkelman and Seniz Yakut, with associate Michael Wright; on capital markets matters by New York partner Benjamin Cohen, with associate Adam Johnson; on investment funds matters by New York partner David Sherman; on securities matters by Washington, D.C. partners Michele Anderson and Brian Miller; on real estate matters by Chicago counsel Jeffrey Anderson, with associates Michael Nieberg and Lucas Fernandez-Rocha; on antitrust matters by Washington, D.C. partner Amanda Reeves, New York partner Katherine Rocco, Frankfurt partner Max Hauser, Brussels partner Sven Völcker, and Washington, D.C. counsel Peter Todaro, with associates Caitlin Fitzpatrick, Charlie Beller, Karen Kim, Carla Palma, and Victoria Pfaff; on sanctions matters by Washington, D.C. partner Les Carnegie and London partner Robert Price, with associates Zachary Eddington, Elizabeth Annis, and Amarlyllis Bernitsa; on anti-corruption matters by New York partner Benjamin Naftalis and Washington, D.C. counsel Timothy McCarten, with associate Ragad Alfaraidy; and on litigation matters by Orange County partner Michele Johnson and New York partner Blair Connelly.

Finance Law

• Tax Law