"Gives great strategic advice on how to get deals done in the right way. He is also a very creative thinker."
Chambers USA 2025
"Provides great client service and is phenomenal at client management."
Chambers USA 2025
“A talented practitioner.”
Chambers USA 2025
Leading Partner – M&A/Corporate & Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts: Large Deals ($500m+)
Legal 500 US 2025
"Perhaps the finest attorney I have ever had the pleasure of working with. He's incredibly knowledgeable, enormously helpful and brings tremendous business acumen."
Chambers USA 2024
MVP – Private Equity
Law360 2025
"A consistent pleasure to work with. He provides both deft legal advice and practical business advice."
Chambers USA 2024
"Extremely bright, knowledgeable and has very good market intelligence."
Chambers USA 2024
"David is a brilliant lawyer. He's always there when I need him and can come up with novel and interesting ways to look at things."
Chambers USA 2023
"David deeply embraces his client's interests and his experience and acumen allow him to be an unparalleled resource and problem solver."
Chambers USA 2022
Profile
David Allinson, Global Vice Chair of Latham & Watkins’ Corporate Department, counsels leading private equity firms and public companies on a range of complex M&A transactions and general corporate matters.
David draws on more than two decades of experience serving as a strategic advisor to clients. He applies a commercially focused approach to help clients structure and execute transactions involving diverse industries, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure, healthcare, and technology sectors. His clients include private equity firms as well as public and private companies.
David’s practice encompasses:
Leveraged buyouts
Take-private transactions
Joint ventures
Carve-outs
Co-investments
Corporate governance matters
David previously served as Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Practices.
David has received broad industry recognition as a leading corporate practitioner. Among his honors, he was recognized as a 2025 Private Equity MVP by Law360. Additionally, David was featured in the Financial Times’ US Innovative Lawyers Report for representing The Blackstone Group in its US$1.5 billion equity investment in Cheniere Energy Partners. He has been profiled by BTI Consulting Group as a Client Service All-Star, and by The New York Times in the publication’s Facebook of Wall Street’s Future list. David is also regularly cited by Legal 500 US and Chambers USA for his transactional work.
Experience
David’s experience includes representing:
CPP Investments and Encino Energy in the US$5.6 billion sale of Encino Acquisition Partners to EOG Resources
Consortium of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Global Infrastructure Partners in the US$6.2 billion acquisition of ALLETE, Inc.
CPP Investments in its joint venture with GIC and Equinix, Inc. to raise over US$15 billion to build hyperscale data centers in the US
Aera Energy, CPPIB, and IKAV in Aera's US$2.1 billion all-stock merger with California Resources Corporation
Inovalon, a leading provider of cloud-based platforms empowering data-driven healthcare, in its US$7.3 billion take-private sale to an equity consortium led by Nordic Capital
T-Mobile in its agreement with DISH to divest Sprint’s prepaid businesses and Sprint’s 800 MHz spectrum assets for approximately US$5 billion
ArcLight Capital Partners in a number of transactions, including its:
Sale of Lightstone Generation, an owner of coal-fired and gas-fired power plants
US$2 billion sale of Great River Hydro, the largest hydropower fleet in New England, to Hydro-Québec
US$1.92 billion acquisition of PSEG’s 6,750-megawatt fossil generating portfolio
US$2.1 billion acquisition with the Blackstone Energy Group of four power plants from American Electric Power
Acquisition and sale of Leeward Renewable Energy
The Blackstone Group in a number of transactions, including its:
Sale of Hotwire Communications to Brookfield Infrastructure
Equity investment in Western LNG to fund liquefied natural gas projects in Western Canada
US$2.15 billion equity investment in NIPSCO
US$7 billion sale of its stake in Cheniere Energy Partners
US$1 billion equity financing of FirstEnergy
Searchlight Capital Partners in its take-private acquisition of Hemisphere Media Group, a leading US media company targeting the US Hispanic and Latin American markets
Consonance Capital Partners in a number of transactions, including its acquisitions of PMC, Priority on Demand, Sellers Dorsey, Orsini, and Enclara Healthcare
Carlyle Power Partners and Cogentrix Energy in a number of transactions, including the US$3 billion sale of Cogentrix Energy to Quantum Capital
ReNew Power, an India-based pure-play renewable energy producer, in its US$8 billion business combination with RMG Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC
Property Solutions Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, in its US$3.4 billion business combination with Faraday Future, a developer of electric vehicles
Blue Road Capital in a number of transactions, including its acquisitions of NatureSweet, Keany Produce, B&W Quality Growers, and Diamond of California
Bridgepoint Advisors Limited in its acquisitions of RoC Skincare and Kyriba Corporation
CVC Capital in a number of transactions, including the acquisition of The Alpha Corporation of Tennessee
Romeo Power in its stock-for-stock merger with Nikola Corporation
IFM Investors in its acquisition of interests in Global Container
Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking division in its acquisition of Capital Vision Services from Atlas Partners and CDPQ
Ribbon Communications in a number of transactions, including the merger of Sonus Networks and Genband, and its acquisition of ECI Telecom Group
Dubai International Capital in its US$1.7 billion sale of Mauser Group to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Global Crossing in its merger with Level 3 Communications
Entain Holdings in its creation of BetMGM with MGM Resorts
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
New York
Education
JD, New York University School of Law, 1995
BA, Colgate University, 1992 magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
New York partner David Allinson, Global Vice Chair of the Corporate Department, was named a 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVP for leading numerous high-profile private equity M&A deals in the past year, including Blackstone’s sale of Hotwire Communications to Brookfield Infrastructure and CPP Investments’ US$15 billion JV to expand hyperscale data centers in the US.
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