London Partner Yen Sum Named to 100 Most Influential Women in European Finance List 2026
The Global Chair of Latham's Private Capital Practice was recognized in the prestigious list for the fifth consecutive year.
Latham leverages the firm's top-tier strength in the US, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia to seamlessly advise market participants on complex domestic and cross-border private capital transactions, including buyouts, carve-outs, asset M&A, activist transactions, venture capital investments, capital raising, front-end direct lending and leveraged finance, corporate reorganizations, restructurings and insolvencies, distressed investing and special situations, PIPE transactions, preferred equity and convertible debt, asset-backed securitisations and financings, infrastructure financings, and project finance.
With a comprehensive view across different investment strategies, Latham’s lawyers advise clients on all aspects of their business in deploying private capital, from fund formation, fundraising, and regulatory matters to analyzing, structuring, and executing transactions and portfolio management. The video below explains more.
Our global multidisciplinary team works with private capital investors across all liquid and illiquid asset classes, including:
The Global Chair of Latham's Private Capital Practice was recognized in the prestigious list for the fifth consecutive year.
Stelios Saffos, Global Chair of Latham’s Capital Markets, Public Company Representation, and Hybrid Capital practices and a leader of the firm’s Capital Strategies group, recognized as a Distinguished Adviser in Financier Worldwide’s 2026 Debt Capital Markets Power Players report for the second consecutive year, underscoring his leadership in the space.
The firm earned #1 rankings in syndicated loans, equity and debt capital markets, private credit, and restructuring — in the US, Europe, and globally.