Recognition
Latham Outpaces All Firms in Legal 500 US Guide
June 11, 2025
Latham earns more Tier 1 rankings than any other firm.
Latham & Watkins “tops the table for tier one rankings by a significant distance” and received more total rankings than any other law firm in the Legal 500 US 2025 guide.
Among the firm’s Tier 1 highlights, Latham:
- Debuted at Tier 1 for advice to Direct Lenders/Private Credit, following the firm’s Band 1 premier for Private Credit in Chambers USA last year, building on Tier 1 strength across Capital Markets, Commercial Lending, Restructuring, and other Finance categories
- Continued its Tier 1 dominance across M&A/Corporate categories, including for large M&A deals, Shareholder Activism advice to boards, Private Equity large deals, as well as Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
- Earned Tier 1 status for General Commercial Disputes, and maintained Tier 1 rankings across litigation categories, including Antitrust, Appellate, M&A Litigation, Product Liability, Securities, and White Collar, as well as for CFIUS and National Security advice
- Remains Tier 1 across key Industry Focus categories, including Energy, Projects, and Environmental rankings, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Technology, Media & Entertainment, and Sport
Latham’s 2025 Tier 1 Practice and Industry Rankings
- Antitrust - Cartel
- Antitrust - Civil Litigation/Class Actions: defense
- Antitrust - Merger Control
- Dispute Resolution - Appellate: Courts of Appeal
- Dispute Resolution - Appellate: Supreme Court (federal and state)
- Dispute Resolution - Corporate Investigations & White Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
- Dispute Resolution - Corporate Investigations & White Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
- Dispute Resolution - General commercial disputes
- Dispute Resolution - M&A: litigation: defense
- Dispute Resolution - Product liability, mass tort and class action: defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute Resolution - Product liability, mass tort and class action: toxic tort - defense
- Dispute Resolution - Securities litigation: defense
- Finance - Broker-Dealers
- Finance - Capital markets: debt offerings - advice to underwriters
- Finance - Capital markets: debt offerings - advice to issuers
- Finance - Capital Markets: global offerings - advice to underwriters
- Finance - Capital markets: global offerings - advice to issuers
- Finance - Capital Markets: equity offerings - advice to managers
- Finance - Capital markets: equity offerings - advice to issuers
- Finance - Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings - advice to underwriters
- Finance - Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings - advice to issuers
- Finance - Commercial lending: advice to borrowers
- Finance - Commercial lending: advice to bank lenders
- Finance - Commercial lending: advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Finance - Crypto
- Finance - Energy and Power
- Finance - Fintech
- Finance - Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance - Structured Finance: Derivatives and structured products
- Finance - Structured Finance: Securitization
- Industry Focus - Energy: renewable/alternative
- Industry Focus - Energy transactions: electric power (FKA: conventional power)
- Industry Focus - Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry Focus - Environment: litigation
- Industry Focus - Environment: regulatory
- Industry Focus - Environment: transactional
- Industry Focus - Healthcare: life sciences
- Industry Focus - Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Industry Focus - Sport
- Intellectual Property - Copyright
- Intellectual Property - Patent litigation: full coverage
- Intellectual Property - Patent litigation: international trade commission
- Intellectual Property - Patents: Licensing
- Intellectual Property - Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- International Trade and National Security - CFIUS
- International Trade and National Security - National Security
- Labor and Employment - Employee benefits and executive compensation and retirement plans (transactional)
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial - M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial - Shareholder activism: advice to boards
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial - Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial - Venture capital and emerging companies
- Media, Technology and Telecoms - Cyber law (including data protection and privacy)
- Media, Technology and Telecoms - Technology transactions
- Media, Technology and Telecoms - Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, Technology and Telecoms - Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Media, Technology and Telecoms - Media and Entertainment: transactional
- Media, Technology and Telecoms - Media and Entertainment: litigation
- Real Estate - Land use/zoning
- Real Estate - Real Estate
- Real Estate - Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Tax - US taxes: contentious
- Tax - US taxes: non-contentious