Latham Named Finalist for Multiple Honors in Financial Times Innovative Lawyers — North America Awards
Firm shortlisted for Most Innovative Law Firm, highlighting our pioneering leadership in law and technology.
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Brittany Ruiz handles prominent equity and debt capital markets transactions on behalf of globally recognized brands, major investment banks, and private equity firms. She advises on matters involving a range of industries, with a particular focus on the digital assets, technology, consumer retail, and healthcare sectors.
Her transactional work includes advising on:
Taking a process-driven approach to each matter, Brittany empowers clients to achieve their commercial objectives. Her experience and educational background working at a large accounting firm allows her to understand the financial issues that may arise at every phase of a transaction.
She is a board member of Claremont McKenna College’s Randall Lewis Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and a member of the Hispanic Lawyers Group in New York and Los Angeles. She previously worked in the firm’s London office.
Brittany helped pioneer direct listings in the groundbreaking Spotify transaction in 2018. She has co-authored numerous articles on direct listings, including a case study on Spotify’s direct listing. She also contributed to the chapters on direct listings and IPOs in the most recent edition of Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs, a best-selling book on deal-making and definitive resource for investment banks, private equity, investment firms, and corporations.
Brittany has represented sponsors, issuers, direct lenders, and underwriters in numerous debt and equity offerings across various industries, including IPOs, direct listings, and high yield offerings. Select issuers and sponsors include:
Firm shortlisted for Most Innovative Law Firm, highlighting our pioneering leadership in law and technology.
Firm’s Capital Markets Practice once again earns top legal advisor league table rankings across debt and equity products and industries globally in Bloomberg, Dealogic, Deal Point Data, and LSEG.
Firm honored by Law360 for advising startups, financial institutions, VCs, digital asset and Web3 participants, and corporations on their most innovative and complex transactions, investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters.