The team at Latham & Watkins has a strong footing in the industry, advising its clients regularly on regulatory investigations, agreement and contract negotiation, strategic advice, M&A and refinancing. Gail Crawford co-heads the team and is an expert in data privacy and advises her clients on compliance programs, product counseling, responding to data breaches and regulatory inquiries, advising on organisational structures, commercial joint ventures, and M&A transactions. Fiona Maclean is a key name on the team, advising clients on data privacy compliance and IT and business processing transactions, with a particular focus on cloud computing and data strategy. Andrew Moyle has now retired.

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Key clients

  • Meta Platforms, Inc.
  • Abu Dhabi Global Market
  • Fidelity National Information Services / Worldpay
  • GTCR
  • Leonard Green & Partners
  • Shift4 Payments
  • Royal London
  • Lithia Motors
  • HSBC
  • PSG Equity
  • Sasol
  • Finbourne
  • Truata
  • Binance
  • Farfetch
  • DigitalBridge Group, Inc.
  • Snap, Inc.
  • Intuit, Inc.
  • NVIDIA Corporation
  • Credit Suisse
  • AllianceBernstein
  • Madison Dearborn Partners
  • Viasat Inc.
  • Virtual1
  • Global Infrastructure Partners
  • KKR
  • TeamViewer
  • Two Circles

Work highlights

  • Advising Meta in relation to a number of highly complex and multijurisdictional regulatory investigations and inquiries regarding alleged data breaches.
  • Advised Savvy Gaming Group on its US$4.9bn acquisition of Scopely, Inc., and its US$400 million acquisition of Vindex LLC.
  • Advised Abu Dhabi Global Market in crafting landmark regulations for Distributed Ledger Technology Foundations.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Gail Crawford

Other key lawyers

Fiona Maclean, Christian McDermott