Jessica Purohit is an associate in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins.

Jessica represents banks, financial institutions, corporate borrowers, and private equity firms in a variety of domestic and cross-border financing transactions, including in connection with leveraged buyouts, acquisition financings, recapitalizations, and refinancings across a wide range of industries.

Jessica is a member First Generation Professional Lawyers, Women Enriching Business and Asian & Middle Eastern Lawyers affinity groups.

Prior to joining Latham, Jessica was a Public Interest Law Initiative Graduate Fellow with the Equip for Equality of the State of Illinois and served as a judicial extern to Judge Michael T. Mullen in General Chancery Division for the Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois in Chicago. 
 

Bar Qualification

  • Illinois

Education

  • JD, John Marshall Law School
    Valedictorian

Practices