Latham & Watkins LLP

Premier asset managers and investment funds, including Apollo, Warburg Pincus, and Carlyle, rely on Latham & Watkins LLP‘s ’extremely knowledgeable and highly skilled‘ team for advice across the full array of private equity deals, with the team boasting noteworthy capabilities in take-private acquisitions, SPAC mergers and cross-border M&A in addition to offering integrated fund structuring and financing expertise. The practice is particularly active in handling transactions in the tech, life sciences, and infrastructure sectors, with New York lawyer David Allinson recently leading on Blackstone Infrastructure Partners’ $2.15bn equity investment in the utility company NIPSCO. Alexandra Kelly, who handles public and private M&A in addition to advising sponsors on the buyouts of other asset management funds, is also situated in New York and co-leads the practice with Boston-based growth investments and hybrid capital expert Kristen Grannis. Washington DC-based leveraged buyout and cross-border investment expert Paul Sheridan is a further key member of the team, as are the New York-based practitioners Howard Sobel, who is renowned for his experience with take-private transactions, Justin Hamill, who is adept at handling high-value deals in the TMT, retail, and financial services sectors, and David Beller, who guides clients through complex leveraged deals and carve-out transactions. Daniel Lennon retired from the partnership in December 2023, while New York partner Amber Banks and Washington DC’s Brian Mangino arrived from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in September 2023. New York-based lawyer Justin Rosenberg joined the team in April 2024 following stints at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.