Alexander David Farris

alex.farris@lw.com

+1.415.395.8101

alex.farris@lw.com

Profile

Alex Farris is an associate in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Tax Department.

Alex represents public and private companies, partnerships, investors, and financial institutions in a wide range of cross-border and domestic tax matters.

Alex graduated from UCLA School of Law, where he was named a Thomas A. Kirschbaum Scholar in Tax Law and awarded the Masin Family Academic Excellence Gold Award. While attending law school, he served as senior editor on the UCLA Law Review and President of the UCLA Tax and Estate Planning Law Association.

Experience

Selected Mergers & Acquisitions representations include:

ArchiMed Group in its US$1.2 billion acquisition of Natus MedicalArea 1 Security in its US$162 million acquisition by Cloudflare
Frontier Airlines in its combination with Spirit Airlines
Intuit in its US$12 billion acquisition of Mailchimp
Obagi in its US$1.2 billion business combination with Waldencast and Milk Makeup
Tower Semiconductor in its US$5.9 billion acquisition by Intel
TPG Capital in its majority investment in Confluent Medical Technologies

Selected Capital Markets representations include:

Reddit in its US$748 million initial public offering
Rivian in its upsized US$11.9 billion IPO
Underwriters of ZipRecruiter’s upsized US$550 million senior notes offering

Selected Financing and other representations include:

Canva in its funding round resulting in a US$40 billion valuation
The Carlyle Group in financing for the acquisition of Tufin by Turn/River Capital
Innocoll Biotherapeutics in its US$125 million term loan from Oaktree Capital