Latham & Watkins LLP

Blair Connelly is Global Vice Chair of the Securities Litigation & Professional Liability Practice and former Co-Chair of the Litigation Department in the New York office. He focuses his practice on M&A litigation, securities lawsuits, and corporate governance disputes.

Blair has represented directors, officers, boards, committees, corporations, financial institutions, and individuals in numerous high-profile merger and takeover litigations, securities class actions, derivative lawsuits, and complex internal investigations. He has successfully litigated some of the largest stockholder lawsuits involving mergers and acquisitions and other corporate governance issues. Blair has argued and won precedent-setting decisions in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the Delaware Supreme Court, and other jurisdictions on cutting-edge issues of corporate law. He also leverages his expertise to advise clients as deals are being put together to avoid litigation pitfalls.

Blair is widely recognized as a premier legal practitioner in securities and M&A litigation.

Blair has served on the firm’s Finance Committee, Associates Committee, Paralegal Administration Committee, and its Training and Career Enhancement (TACE) Committee, where he ran the firm’s Deposition and Trial Advocacy training programs.