Latham’s securities litigators advise and defend the world’s major accounting firms and their affiliates across matters and jurisdictions.
Our market-leading team has earned an impressive reputation for defending the Big 4 and other major accounting firms, law firms, and other professional services firms in their most high-profile professional liability matters across venues. Our record of success includes winning rare jury trials of major civil securities fraud cases, as well as before the US Supreme Court. We routinely defend firms, as well as individual accountants, skillfully handling matters that may include multiple prongs, such as civil and criminal litigation, and investigations on a full range of topics, including:
We also frequently represent US accounting firms in non-US proceedings around the globe, as well as international accounting organizations in both US and global matters.
Brandon Anderson, Roderick Branch, and Ed Siskel recognized by Crain's Chicago Business for their leadership, world-class legal practices, and commitment to the Chicago community.
Two wins and seven finalist honors in the NYLJ’s annual awards program — including for Large Law Firm of the Year — reflect the firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory prowess, innovative office and practice leadership, and clear market leadership in New York.
A Latham litigation team secured a full dismissal for Morgan Stanley in a stockholder lawsuit challenging the US$4.5 billion take-private sale of Envestnet.