Dealwatch: Lathams, Linklaters and HSF lead on $700m Dealogic sale Legal Business Lathams & Watkins, Linklaters and Herbert Smith Freehills have all won roles advising on The Carlyle Group and Euromoney Institutional…
Dealwatch: Latham & Watkins, Macfarlanes and Travers Smith lead on £200m Gorkana sale Legal Business Latham & Watkins, Macfarlanes and Travers Smith have all landed key roles on the £200m sale of media database Gorkana…
Leadership: Latham elects Bill Voge to take over from Bob Dell after eight-month selection process Legal Business Following a rigorous eight-month selection process, London-based projects partner Bill Voge has been elected to take over from Latham &…
Linklaters corporate heavyweight Charlie Jacobs leads on Carlyle’s circa £2bn RAC exit talks Legal Business Linklaters senior corporate partner Charlie Jacobs is leading for Carlyle Group on the US buyout house’s early stage discussions to exit…
Latham goes green with latest City hire of Macfarlanes environmentalist Paul Davies Legal Business In the latest of a series of heavyweight City hires, Latham & Watkins is to bring in Macfarlanes’ environmental specialist Paul…
Latham recruitment spree continues with key arbitration and private equity hires David Stevenson It’s been another week and another set of significant acquisitions for Latham & Watkins, with the global elite firm announcing…
Asia: Latham hires V&E ex China co-head in HK; NRF hires DLA’s Singapore corporate head; Clayton Utz ends HK association David Stevenson The past week has seen global top three firm Latham & Watkins hire Vinson & Elkins’ former China co-head David Blumental…
Latham bolsters City arm with hire of partner Lucy Oddy as BLP finance departures keep coming David Stevenson Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) structured finance partner Lucy Oddy is set to join Latham & Watkins, representing a further City partner…
US financial results 2013: Latham sees moderate growth in PEP and revenue David Stevenson Still basking in London in the news that it has hired leading Clifford Chance (CC) private equity partner Kem Ihenacho, Latham…
Taking London – Latham on the offensive in the Square Mile with hire of third private equity partner from CC David Stevenson As our Taking Manhattan cover feature underlines, the Los Angeles-bred Latham & Watkins continues to make major inroads in the key…
M&A: Davis Polk and Latham advise on Smith & Nephew’s $1.7bn acquisition of Arthrocare David Stevenson In the third largest M&A deal in the UK this year after Liberty Global’s $10bn takeover of Ziggo and Amec’s…
Revolving doors – Weil, Latham, Freshfields and Dentons among the firms opening 2014 with senior recruits Francesca Fanshawe Increasing confidence in the transactional market has contributed to a rash of senior partner moves at the start of 2014,…
Latham sets pace for 2014 as expansive City arm hires Weil private equity partner David Stevenson For many watchers of the upper reaches of City law, Latham & Watkins has in recent years established a profile…
Some eye watering growth statistics later and its goodbye from Latham’s Bob Dell Legal Business When the ordinarily press-shy chair and managing partner of Latham & Watkins, Robert Dell, gave Legal Business his first-ever in…
Deal watch: drugs are working as Covington and Latham lead on $2.6bn pharma acquisition David Stevenson The lucrative pharmaceutical sector continues to provide a corporate boon to Global 100 firms, with Covington & Burling and Latham &…
Rising star: Latham hires Clifford Chance private equity partner Tom Evans David Stevenson Latham & Watkins has secured another heavyweight hire in London with the announcement that Tom Evans, a newly made up partner…
Trainee retention: Macfarlanes & Latham reveal numbers Legal Business Macfarlanes has become the latest City firm to decide on its trainee retention rates, with 18 out of 24 trainees –…
Latham, Sidley and Skadden lead the US pack in Legal 500 research Legal Business Often hailed as one of the greatest US success stories of the last 25 years, new research underlines the elevated…
And the most upwardly mobile law firm is? Client feedback pushes Latham to the top of Legal 500’s US edition Francesca Fanshawe Often hailed as one of the greatest US success stories of the last 25 years, new research underlines the elevated…
Global 100: Latham & Watkins Mark McAteer Despite facing considerable reverses in the wake of the 2008 banking crisis – which saw a sharp fall in revenues…
