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Our Work
A cross-border, multidisciplinary Latham team led by members of the firm’s asset management M&A and real estate practices represents global alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation in acquiring the international business of GLP Capital Partners, GCP International, in a transaction valued US$3.7 billion, with the potential for an additional $1.5 billion of consideration to be paid subject to the achievement of certain performance metrics. The transaction establishes Ares Real Estate as one of the largest global vertically integrated real assets platforms and nearly doubles its assets under management to approximately US$96 billion.
Latham advised Ericsson on a new 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. The venture aims to implement and provide access to common APIs from multiple telecom providers to a wider range of developer platforms. The new company will unify network APIs globally, enabling new applications to work universally across networks, thus accelerating developer innovation.
A cross-office antitrust litigation team has achieved a precedent-setting victory for Cendyn Group, LLC, defeating “hub and spoke” conspiracy allegations tied to algorithmic pricing recommendations, with wide impact in a hot area of law at the intersection of antitrust and AI. The court’s May 2024 decision marks the first complete defense dismissal in the recent wave of algorithmic pricing antitrust cases.
"Stellar track records"
Five Latham Partners Named Among America's Top 200 Lawyers
Forbes recognizes Kevin Chambers, Robert Ellison, Michele Johnson, Marvin Putnam, and Amanda Reeves for demonstrating outsize influence and achieving an elite level of excellence in private practice, civil rights, and organizational work.
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Six Latham Partners Named to Latin America's Top 100 List
Latinvex recognizes Latham Latin America Practice partners Carlos Ardila, Gianluca Bacchiocchi, Roderick Branch, Antonio Del Pino, Guido Liniado, and Fernando Mantilla-Serrano in its annual rankings.
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