Amber Banks
Partner
New York
amber.banks@lw.com
+1.212.906.1221
PRACTICES
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
INDUSTRIES
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Retail & Consumer Products
- Technology
EDUCATION
- JD, Harvard Law School, 2009
cum laude - BBA, University of San Diego, 2004
summa cum laude
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
PROFILE
Amber Banks advises private equity firms, strategic buyers and sellers, and companies on a range of investments, acquisitions, divestitures, and other complex corporate matters.
Drawing on extensive dealmaking experience, Amber represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies across a broad range of industries in:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Joint ventures
- Leveraged buyouts
- Recapitalizations
- Divestitures and spinoffs
- General corporate matters
A recognized industry leader, Amber has been named a David Rockefeller Fellow and has presented at Harvard Business School’s Women in Investing Event and Venture Capital and Private Equity Conference.
Before joining Latham, Amber was a partner at another leading global law firm.
EXPERIENCE
Amber’s experience includes advising:
- Permira on its:
- US$14 billion acquisition of McAfee*
- US$5.8 billion take-private acquisition of Mimecast*
- Participation in an investor consortium in Zendesk’s US$10.2 billion acquisition*
- US $150 million investment in AllTrails*
- Investment in Relativity*
- Participation in Carta’s Series G-1 funding round*
- Simon Properties Group, as part of a consortium of Authentic Brands Group and Brookfield Properties, on acquiring assets of Forever 21 and certain of its subsidiaries that are debtors in a chapter 11 proceeding*
- Jacobs Engineering Group on its:
- US$3.3 billion sale of its Energy, Chemicals, and Resources (ECR) segment to WorleyParsons Limited*
- US$2.9 billion acquisition of CH2M Hill*
- US$815 million acquisition of KeyW*
- Acquisition of Blacklynx*
- Sale of certain assets to LJA Engineering*
- Tapestry (f/k/a Coach) on its US$2.4 billion acquisition of Kate Spade*
- Visual Comfort & Co. on its sale to a consortium led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Leonard Green & Partners*
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham