Recognition
Latham Leads All Firms in Chambers USA 2026 Guide
June 4, 2026
Chambers USA
Latham earns more rankings than any other firm for the 12th consecutive year, dominating the market once again in both practice and individual rankings.
Latham & Watkins dominates the Chambers USA 2026 rankings, which spotlight America’s leading business lawyers and law firms, with more rankings than any other firm. Latham received more practice and lawyer rankings than any other firm for the 12th consecutive year, including Band 1 recognition across a full range of transactional, disputes, regulatory, and industry categories.
Latham’s results include 98 Band 1 practice and industry rankings — more than any other firm — 108 Band 1 lawyer rankings, as well as the highest number of lawyers ranked in the guide — all-time highs for the firm in this directory. Among these, the firm:
- Maintained Band 1 in Banking & Finance, Derivatives, Private Credit, Restructuring, and numerous Capital Markets categories, underscoring Latham’s unrivaled reputation for excellence across the full capital structure
- Premiered at Band 1 in the new nationwide Asset Management M&A rankings and maintained Band 1 status among elite Corporate/M&A firms nationwide, with Band 1 local practices coast to coast
- Maintained its Band 1 Corporate Governance ranking, reinforcing the firm’s position as a premier public company advisor, representing more than 1,100 public companies
- Premiered at Band 1 in the inaugural nationwide rankings for both General Commercial Litigation (Elite) and National Security, achieved a Band 1 ranking for International Arbitration, and maintained Band 1 status across litigation practices, including Antitrust, Appellate, Privacy & Data Security Litigation, Securities, and White Collar categories
- Maintained Band 1 rankings across Artificial Intelligence, Technology (Nationwide, California, and Massachusetts), Privacy & Data Security Litigation, and Trade Secrets, and achieved Band 1 for Venture Capital in California, solidifying Latham’s position as the leading Band 1 advisor to the Technology industry
- Remains the only firm to achieve Band 1 status across all nationwide Energy categories: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation), Electricity (Transactional), Energy Transition, Offshore Energy, and Oil & Gas (Transactional); all Project categories: LNG, Oil & Gas, Power, Power & Renewables (Transactional), and Renewables & Alternative Energy; as well as Climate Change and Environment
- Continues to lead as a Band 1 Life Sciences firm in the innovation hubs of Massachusetts and California, as well as nationwide
Latham’s 2026 Nationwide Band 1 Practice and Industry Rankings
- Antitrust
- Antitrust: Cartel
- Appellate Law
- Arbitration (International)
- Artificial Intelligence
- Asset Management M&A
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring: Elite
- Capital Markets: Convertible Debt
- Capital Markets: Equity: Issuer Representation
- Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Representation
- Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt
- Capital Markets: Investment Grade Debt: Issuer Representation
- Capital Markets: Securitization: ABS
- Climate Change
- Corporate Crime & Investigations: Elite
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate/M&A: The Elite
- Derivatives
- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Energy Transition
- Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
- Energy: Electricity (Transactional)
- Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
- Environment
- Environment: Mainly Transactional
- Government Contracts: Highly Regarded
- Government: National Security
- Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets
- International Trade: Intellectual Property (Section 337)
- Leisure & Hospitality
- Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial
- Litigation: General Commercial (Elite)
- Offshore Energy
- Privacy & Data Security: Lit
- Private Credit
- Product Liability: Tobacco
- Projects: LNG
- Projects: Oil & Gas
- Projects: Power
- Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional
- Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy
- REITs
- Retail: Corporate & Transactional
- Securities Litigation
- Tax: Controversy
- Tax: Corporate & Finance
- Technology