Latham Practices and Teams Shine in American Lawyer Industry Award Shortlists

Latham & Watkins has been named to the shortlists of six categories in the prestigious The American Lawyer Industry Awards, reflecting the firm’s unparalleled global platform and client service to deliver superior outcomes across markets and industries. The awards recognize those who “set benchmarks for others to follow and contribute significantly to the advancement of the legal profession.” Winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony on November 12, 2026, in New York City.

This year, Latham is a finalist in the following categories:

• Best Corporate Practice of the Year: General, for the firm’s position as an unrivaled transactional powerhouse with the deep cross-disciplinary resources and industry experience to advise on market-defining transactions, including the largest IPOs of 2024 and 2025, the largest all-cash M&A deal in corporate history, and the largest-ever completed leveraged buyout. 
• Best Corporate Practice: Energy, for the Energy & Infrastructure Group’s position as a global leader across oil and gas; LNG; conventional and renewable energy; and digital infrastructure, reflected in nearly 330 #1 industry rankings in 2025. 
• Best Corporate Practice: Tech/Telecom, for advising the innovators, investors, and companies powering the transformation of industries worldwide. The firm has advised on more tech IPOs than any other law firm since 2020 and helped steer over US$1 trillion in digital infrastructure transactions in the first half of 2026.  
• Best Business Team, for the firm’s AI and Legal Innovation team for partnering with practice groups to convert AI strategy in practical capabilities spanning legal engineering, e-discovery, machine learning, automation, and process-improvement capabilities that apply directly to legal workflows. 
• Best Provider Collaboration, for Latham’s work alongside co-counsel King & Spalding and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison securing a complete defense verdict, following a three-week jury trial, clearing ExxonMobil and its former officers in a securities class action challenging ExxonMobil’s 2015 Form 10-K. This is a significant trial win that reinforces the distinction between hindsight disagreement with business or accounting judgments and proof of securities fraud.
• Young Lawyer of the Year (Corporate), for Liliana Paparelli Ranger and her practice advising studios, platforms, creators, and capital providers driving a generational shift across the media and entertainment sector.