Katherine Cody is a corporate associate in the New York office of Latham & Watkins.

Katherine represents private and public companies, and private equity funds in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, and general corporate law matters. Prior to joining Latham, Katherine worked in the New York office of another leading international law firm.

Prior to law school, Katherine worked at a Big Four accounting firm.

Katherine’s representative experience includes advising:

  • Siemens AG in its US$10 Billion Acquisition of Altair Engineering
  • Raymond James as the financial advisor to the Conflicts Committee of Capital Products Partners L.P.
  • CyberArk in its acquisition of Venafi from Thoma Bravo
  • London Stock Exchange Group in the divestiture of its BETA, Maxit and Digital Investor businesses to affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group L.P. and Motive Partners
  • Environmental Growth Opportunities Corp. in its business combination with Fast Radius Inc. 
  • L’Oréal in its acquisition of Youth to the People
  • Rosecliff Acquisition Corp. in its business combination with GT Gettaxi Limited (Transaction terminated)
  • ArcLight Capital Partners in numerous transactions, including its:
    • Acquisition of Clean Energy Future Lordstown, LLC, which operates a 940 MW combined cycle gas-fired power facility in Ohio
    • Acquisition of a minority interest in Kleen Energy Systems, LLC, which operates a 620 MW natural gas-fired power plant in Connecticut from Sojitz Corporation of America
    • Divestiture of Great River Hydro to HQI US Holding, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hydro Québec
    • Acquisition of a 6,750 MW fossil generating portfolio from Public Service Enterprise Group
  • Avangrid in its US$2.5 billion acquisition by Iberdrola
  • Energy Capital Partners in its US$2.555 billion acquisition of Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure 

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, St. John's University School of Law, 2019
    magna cum laude
  • Master of Taxation, University of Denver, Graduate Tax Program, 2013
  • BS in Accounting, Binghamton University, School of Management, 2012
    summa cum laude

Languages Spoken

  • English