Latham advises the world’s leading private equity firms through the full spectrum of transactions from initial investment through to exit. We help our private equity clients and their portfolio companies maximize value time and again, annually steering more than 500 deals representing more than half a trillion US dollars — including many global and regional “deals of the year.”
Drawing on global market-leading experience, we bring together strength in fund formation, private equity finance, M&A, and capital markets to deliver seamless and responsive support to private equity clients at every stage of a fund’s lifecycle. Our global platform and work on sophisticated cross-border carve-outs, tax-free spinoffs, and multi-billion-dollar going-private transactions equip us to execute any transaction anywhere in the world. We cut through a thicket of complex global regulatory environments and decode the jargon of the most dynamic industries to help our clients get any deal done.We have worked with many of our private equity clients for decades, growing together and innovating as a team. Whether industry-focused, growth equity, large cap, or middle market, we work to fully understand each fund’s strategy and anticipate the needs of our clients. This experience also affords us a broad view of the market and the trends that we help shape through the breadth of our work.
Simon Lange and Maarten Overmars recognized among the top 25 private equity lawyers in the UK and Europe.
Michelle Kelban, Global Co-Chair of Latham's Real Estate Practice, is recognized for successfully guiding game-changing real estate deals, such as Ares Management’s US$3.7 billion acquisition of real estate asset manager, GCP International, and Cain International’s US$2 billion financing of the One Beverly Hills project.
Firm earned 118 #1 rankings from Infralogic and LSEG.