Latham & Watkins Advises Platinum Equity in Sale of Livingston International to Purolator, Inc.

Platinum Equity announced the sale of Livingston International, an international trade services firm specializing in customs brokerage, freight forwarding, and trade consulting, to Purolator, Inc., a leading integrated freight, package, and logistics solutions provider.

Latham & Watkins LLP represents Platinum Equity and Livingston International in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by Washington, D.C. partner David Brown, with associate Monica Hernandez. Advice was also provided on tax matters by New York partner Matthew Dewitz; on benefits matters by Washington, D.C. partner Matthew Conway; on antitrust matters by Washington, D.C. partner Patrick English, with associate Ben Bouwman; on hedging matters by New York partner Carlos Alvarez, with associate Tiiu Lemsalu; on real estate matters by Chicago counsel Jeffrey Anderson; on English law matters by London partners Tom Evans and Maarten Overmars and London counsel James Leslie, with associates Jia Yan Ng, Angus Baird, and Thomas O’Malley; on Spanish law matters by Madrid partner Ignacio Pallares, with associate Lucia de Bustos; on French law matters by Paris partner Simon Lange; on German law matters by Frankfurt partner Maximilian Platzer, with associate Dominique Brieger; on Chinese law matters by associate Vincent Jiang; and on Hong Kong law matters by associate Bonnie Tse.