Latham & Watkins is an international law firm with 30 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Latham is staffed by approximately 2,000 lawyers with US, English, French, German, Hong Kong, Italian, Japanese and Spanish law capabilities, giving the firm one of the few truly full-service, global practices capable of representing companies on a wide range of legal issues both cross-border and local in nature.

Latham & Watkins’ global capital markets practice is dedicated to helping businesses find and secure the cash they need to grow and operate. We have a full-service capital markets practice in equity products (including equity derivatives), convertible bonds and debt products in the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Our capital markets practice is supported by the resources of the approximately 2,000 Latham attorneys around the world, enabling us to represent clients from all corners of the globe. Our clients include companies of all sizes in virtually every industry and nearly all major banks.

Latham & Watkins’ Corporate Governance attorneys are at home in the board room, and regularly counsel directors and senior management on legal strategies, regulatory requirements, evolving trends and best practices in corporate governance and related disclosure and SEC compliance. We bring deeply considered judgment, borne of wide experience and unsurpassed technical expertise to our corporate representation. Our senior attorneys serve as seasoned crisis counselors to corporate clients in high-profile and often high-risk situations such as internal and external investigations, control contests, shareholder activism, accounting restatements and major strategic initiatives. We have the expertise companies need to operate as exemplary corporate citizens, as well as the requisite experience when unforeseen trouble hits.