Latham & Watkins LLP

The firm: Latham & Watkins is a leading international law firm serving multinational companies, start-ups, investment banks, private equity funds, venture capital firms, sovereign wealth funds, governments and other organisations. The firm’s globally integrated platform spans Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the US, and consists of internationally recognised practices across a wide spectrum of transactional, litigation, corporate and regulatory areas. Latham attorneys offer unrivalled legal resources and strategic commercial thinking to provide clients with innovative solutions to complex commercial matters.

Asia practice: Businesses and investors seeking innovative solutions to their most complex corporate, financial, regulatory and litigation challenges turn to Latham in Asia for strategic thinking and experienced counsel. Latham has extensive experience advising on the international aspects of a broad range of corporate and finance transactions for clients across the region, notably Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. With more than 150 lawyers operating from six offices in Asia, Latham provides clients in the region and clients looking to do business in Asia with expert advice under US, English, Hong Kong, Japanese and Singapore law. Latham’s deep roots in the financial and economic markets in the region are further strengthened by the firm’s local language capabilities.

Latham continues to receive awards and acclaim from a number of leading financial and legal publications for landmark and precedent-setting deals.

Areas of practice: The Hong Kong office of Latham & Watkins is one of only a few top-ranked firms able to provide substantive US, Hong Kong and English law advice. The firm’s clients benefit from this combined platform of high-level legal expertise as they develop their business through both inbound and outbound investment activities.

The Hong Kong office offers advice in a broad range of practice areas, including antitrust and competition; banking, leveraged and structured finance; capital markets; data privacy and cyber security; derivatives; energy; entertainment, sports and media; financial regulatory; fintech, foreign direct investment; high-yield; international arbitration; litigation/dispute resolution; mergers and acquisitions; outsourcing; private equity; project development and finance; public company representation; real estate; restructuring, insolvency and workouts; technology transactions and white-collar defence and investigations. Latham’s leading practices have provided the foundation from which the firm has continued to increase its market share in complex, cross-border and precedent-setting deals.

Latham’s Hong Kong team is led by some of Asia’s most experienced transactional and litigation partners. Members of the team draw on more than 25 years of individual experience advising clients doing business in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The team advises US, European, Middle Eastern and Asian financial institutions, companies and investors conducting business throughout Greater China and the rest of Asia, as well as representing Chinese and other Asian companies with their direct investment activities and capital markets transactions overseas, and are fluent in Chinese languages and dialects including Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hakka and Taiwanese.