Achievements
Latham & Watkins advises the businesses and institutions that power the global economy.
We bring together world-leading talent, with deep sector knowledge and experience, to make our clients’ most ambitious goals a reality. In today’s highly complex and ever-changing world, Latham stands out as a steady market leader capable of assembling at a moment’s notice the exact right team across any set of jurisdictions to seamlessly respond to and execute on client needs.
This broad and diversified platform helps us anticipate and address any legal or business challenge anywhere in the world – with flawless execution. With a resilient culture imbued with a spirit of teamwork and innovation, Latham’s work at the cutting edge of commercial, financial, and legal innovation helps our clients thrive.
Our Work
A Latham London team represented a private equity consortium led by Astorg and Epiris on the £1.6 billion UK Takeover Code offer for Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc, a leading financial news and information business. The consortium will separate Euromoney into two businesses, with Fastmarkets becoming a stand-alone unit owned by Astorg. The remaining Euromoney businesses will be majority controlled by Epiris.
A multidisciplinary Latham team represented the lenders in gas infrastructure company Fluxys and institutional investor EIG's completion of the acquisition of an aggregate 80% equity stake in GNL Quintero S.A. (Quintero). Quintero is a key energy infrastructure business supporting Chile’s decarbonization strategy with a bridging fuel that allows for the reconciliation of economic growth by fostering the uptake of renewables and phasing out coal. Quintero is the largest terminal in Chile for receiving and unloading LNG as well as for its storage and regasification capacities.
Music duo’s 5,000 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) tied to streaming royalties from new album “So Far So Good,” will allow the band’s fans to share music streaming royalty share rights with The Chainsmokers. Latham Los Angeles team-led transaction is unique in demonstrating a viable and transparent Web3 method.
BenevolentAI, a leading, clinical-stage AI-enabled drug discovery company, combined its business with Odyssey Acquisition S.A., a Euronext Amsterdam-listed special purpose acquisition (SPAC) company. We advised BenevolentAI on the €1.5 billion transaction, the largest-ever biotech listing on Euronext Amsterdam.
Latham acted as the lead legal counsel to a consortium led by Todd Boehly, chairman and CEO of Eldridge, and Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., on its acquisition of the superstar Chelsea Football Club. The landmark £4.25 billion transaction represents one of the largest sports M&A deals in history.
Representing ZF Automotive US, Inc., a cross-border team of Latham Supreme Court & Appellate, Complex Commercial, and International Arbitration lawyers collaborated to successfully deliver a unanimous US Supreme Court win in ZF Automotive US, Inc. v. Luxshare, Ltd. The Court agreed with Latham that a private commercial arbitration seated outside the US is not a “foreign or international tribunal” under Section 1782, a decision that will have wide-reaching effects for businesses and individuals with arbitration agreements worldwide.
Latham advised on the largest-ever financing for a Colombian 4G toll road, which includes several "first-of-its-kind" features: the first to include a project-level letter of credit facility for a project in Colombia, the first local currency project bond investment by the IDB Group, and the largest-ever financing for a 4G project.
Latham’s Latin America Practice advised American Airlines on an investment agreement with GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A., Brazil’s largest airline, deepening the commercial partnership between the two carriers to create the broadest network in the Americas. The agreements are also expected to create the largest joint frequent flyer program in the Americas under American’s AAdvantage® and GOL’s SMILES loyalty programs.
After more than 13 weeks in court in front of two separate juries, our all-woman litigation team persuaded the DOJ Antitrust Division to give up its case against our client, a former Tyson sales executive, in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for broiler chicken products.
A team led by Latham’s Seoul office represented the underwriters on The Export-Import Bank of Korea’s US$3 billion issuance of SEC-registered green bonds to foreign investors. The transaction represents the largest-ever non-government issuance of foreign currency bonds among local institutions in South Korea.
We advised Adani Group on its US$10.5 billion acquisition of Holcim Ltd.’s stake in Ambuja Cements and ACC, India’s leading cement companies. The deal also represents Adani’s largest-ever acquisition.
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