Jim Morrone represents high-growth public and private companies as well as domestic and foreign strategic and financial investors and intermediaries.
Jim advises clients on a broad spectrum of transactions, including:
He draws on several years of experience as Principal and Senior Counsel at Weston Presidio, a middle-market leveraged buyout firm focused primarily on leveraged buyout and minority investments in retail, consumer, and industrial segments.
Jim has routinely worked collaboratively with regulators and parties around the table to develop novel and innovative solutions to issues of first impression. He leverages his broad business and legal experience, an intuitive sense of clients’ needs, and resources across the firm’s platform to facilitate successful transactions.
Jim's representative experience includes:
More than two decades of experience representing targets and acquirers in public and private transactions with aggregate consideration in the billions of dollars.
Full lifecycle representation of private and public high-growth companies from garage to unicorn across technology and life sciences, including Alder Energy, Bitly, Bolt Threads, Car IQ, Cheq, Celestial AI, Cruise, Energy Vault, Fandom, Fantex, Hearsay Systems, hitloop, Intermolecular, Luxwall, K&L Wines, MAP Pharmaceuticals, Marine Layer, NextRoll (f/k/a/ AdRoll), Oath, Opendoor, PLACE, Soraa, Tarana Wireless, Unagi, and Wise Sons.
Accel, BTIG, Citi, Deutsche Borse, GI Partners, Intuit, Intuitive Surgical, IVP, Khosla, Riverwood, Sapphire, Sequoia, Temasek, TPG, Trinity Capital, USVP, and Weston Presidio.
Representing both issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of debt and equity, including with and for BAML, BTIG, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Jefferies.
Chambers USA recognized the firm as a “powerhouse in the capital markets space.”
Chambers USA recognized the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice for “world class expertise when it comes to the most challenging transactions.”
Latham also honored as top Global M&A firm and places two partners among trusted advisors named by The Recorder.