Associate
Austin Pierce is an associate in the Houston office of Latham & Watkins. He helps clients across industries to navigate ESG matters – including climate change, biodiversity and natural capital, human rights, Indigenous rights, and corporate culture – both individually and where such matters intersect with each other or other topics.
His experience is global, having advised clients on matters involving every inhabited continent and many sub-regions thereof.
Mr. Pierce regularly works with public and private companies, funds, and their boards on issues regarding:
Mr. Pierce serves on the international human rights committees for several bar associations. He regularly speaks and authors articles on ESG-related topics for a variety of industry publications.
Mr. Pierce’s experience includes advising:
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham
Leading French competition publication selects two Latham articles as winners at the 2024 Antitrust Writing Awards.
Leading French competition publication Concurrences selected three Latham articles from among more than 1,200 academic, business, and soft law pieces submitted globally.