Nathan Van As is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins and is a member of the Corporate Department.

He advises strategic investors and private equity funds on cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, and general corporate matters.  

Nathan's experience includes advising: 

  • Nissan Motor Co. on a new framework agreement relating to its strategic alliance with Renault Group
  • Ericsson on its joint venture with some of the world’s largest telecom operators — including América Móvil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Reliance Jio, Singtel, Telefonica, Telstra, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Vodafone — to combine and sell network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) on a global scale to spur innovation in digital services
  • VEON on the sale of its telecommunications tower assets in Pakistan to Engro Corporation for US$562.5 million
  • Viasat Inc., on its US$7.3 billion acquisition of Inmarsat, a leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services
  • SIG on its acquisition of sustainable packaging business Scholle IPN for €1.05 billion
  • Rivulis, a portfolio company of Temasek, on the acquisition of the international irrigation business of Jain Irrigation Systems, an India-based micro irrigation systems company
  • OMERS and APG on the joint acquisition of Groendus from NPM Capital

Bar Qualification

  • Victoria (Australia)

Education

  • Certificate of Transnational Law, King's College London, 2016
  • Juris Doctor, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School, 2016
  • BA, University of Melbourne, 2012

Languages Spoken

  • English