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.
• Fraud
  "Top-tier skills representing both individual and corporate clients in major criminal investigations and administrative enforcement, with strengths in areas including healthcare fraud, insider trading and FCPA violations."
• 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
  "[Latham's] team offers its clients unparalleled legal expertise, strategy and unfailing availability. It knows to give access to all business law departments to finalize cases, something extremely rare on the market."
• Antitrust
  Former Global Co-Chair of the Antitrust & Competition Practice Christopher Yates was named a Sports & Betting MVP by Law360 for his work on precedent-setting cases across the US, with particular focus on monopolization and sports antitrust litigation.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Latham & Watkins LLP represents Wolfspeed in the transaction with a finance team led by partners Kenneth Askin, Elizabeth Oh, and Haim Zaltzman, with associates Erin Cusenbary and Axel Magnusson. Advice was also provided on corporate matters by partners Tad Freese, Greg Rodgers, and Arash Aminian Baghai, with associates Andrew Bentz, Ryan Gold, and Zuzanna Gruca; on tax matters by partner Grace Lee, with associate Jacob Meninga; on real estate matters by partner Dara Denberg, with associate Lucas Fernandez-Rocha; on government contract matters by partner Kyle Jefcoat; on finance matters by partner Ted Dillman; and on German law matters by partner Jan Penselin, with associates Anastasia Dressler and Verena Birke. This follows Latham’s representation of Wolfspeed in multiple private capital transactions totaling up to US$4 billion in 2023.

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  The Latham team was led by Hong Kong partner Steve Kang, Singapore partner Rajiv Gupta, and Seoul counsel Diona Park, with associates Esha Goel, Bijun Huang, Jae Lee, and Chaitrika Bellana. Advice on US tax matters was provided by Chicago partner Rene de Vera and New York partner Jiyeon Lee-Lim, with associate Jay Khurana; and on regulatory matters by Boston counsel Joel Cavanaugh, with associate Ruchi Sharma.