Caroline Hughes

Caroline Hughes is an associate in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins.

Caroline advises public and private companies and investment banks in a broad range of corporate and financing transactions. 

Prior to joining Latham full-time, Caroline was a summer associate in the firm’s Chicago office, where she served as an Emerging Companies Scholar.

Caroline joined the firm in 2023 after graduating from the University of Chicago Law School and Booth School of Business. While in law school, Caroline advised startups and entrepreneurs through the Arthur Kane Center’s Innovation Clinic and was a venture capital associate at the Polsky Center’s Innovation Fund Associates Program, performing due diligence on new ventures coming out of the University of Chicago ecosystem. She is a recipient of the Doctoroff Business Leadership Certificate and of the 2022 Illinois Women’s Bar Foundation Scholarship.

Prior to law school, Caroline worked as an e-commerce category specialist for a major retailer.