Latham & Watkins

Highly regarded partners Grace Huang and Edward Freeman will join Latham in our Hong Kong office. Grace will join the Capital Markets Practice, while Edward will join the M&A and Private Equity Practice. Cindy Kwong will also join as counsel with a focus on equity capital markets and listed company compliance. Widely recognized as among a small group of elite practitioners in their respective fields, their arrival marks a significant milestone in the expansion of the firm’s preeminent transactional platform in Asia. https://lw.link/TFWLXa

A Latham #capitalmarkets team led by partners Byron Rooney and Jennifer Ying Lan represented the initial purchasers in the agricultural seed business’s investment grade notes offerings. https://lw.link/7kbafL

A Texas-based team, including partners Ryan Maierson, David Miller, Clayton Heery, Nick Dhesi, and Samuel Rettew, has advised ONEOK on three transactions. • US$9 Billion Minority Equity Investment: https://lw.link/dTbn7r • US$4.425 Billion Acquisition of Brazos Midstream: https://lw.link/SCYVkO • Cash Tender Offer in Connection With US$5 Billion Debt Repayment Plan: https://lw.link/FGDRCx

A Latham team led by Munich corporate partner Rainer Traugott advised leading European construction and services company Goldbeck on establishing a joint venture with US contractor M.A. Mortenson Company to support Goldbeck's expansion into the US market. https://lw.link/46RFb8

A Latham team led by partners Chirag Dedania and Haim Zaltzman represents the leading alternative asset manager in the financing supporting the expansion of AI infrastructure in Canada. #LathamTECH https://lw.link/NdBJP5

A Latham team led by partners Sharon Lau and Michael D. Rackham represented ST Telemedia on the completed S$13.8 billion acquisition of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. The transaction represents one of the largest digital infrastructure transactions in Southeast Asia to-date. https://lw.link/UpmyL4

A Latham team led by London and Paris restructuring partners Yen Sum, Thomas Doyen, and Jack Isaacs advises Ingenico on comprehensive recapitalisation. https://lw.link/S5nzPh

Latham was proud to sponsor several events as part of Chicago Tech Week in partnership with Drive Capital and Damn Gravity. This year’s events brought together nearly 1600 founders, investors and operators from across the Chicago tech ecosystem to come together and take on the most urgent issues of our time. Thanks to those who attended and participated. We look forward to continuing conversations. #LathamTECH

Latham team led by partners Chirag Dedania, Josh Holt, Robert Katz, and counsels Joshua Chao and Juan Carlos Olivares represents the arranging banks in the asset-backed financing supporting the deployment of GPU infrastructure for artificial intelligence workloads. #LathamTECH https://lw.link/zmgOcA

Congratulations to Boston Managing Partner Wesley Holmes, named a Go-To Life Sciences Lawyer by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly for helping clients achieve their most ambitious objectives on a broad range of transactions. #LathamHCLS https://lw.link/jKaQHc