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Latham & Watkins has a pre-eminent high-yield practice that regularly acts on market-leading transactions. The firm offers the largest team in Europe and is a first port of call for both sponsors and issuers. In addition, it has a standout equity offering that is able to draw upon international resources to advise on transactions throughout Europe, the USA and emerging markets.
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Latham & Watkins advised ASDA (Bellis Finco) on the financing of its acquisition of EG Group's UK&I operations. This had an enterprise value of £2.27 billion.
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The Latham team brings excellent problem-solving abilities and has excellent awareness of the market.
The partners are extremely commercially minded.
Latham is a highly specialist and capable team which is solutions-oriented and client-focused.
Latham & Watkins is very helpful and deals with issues that come up very quickly.
The team is very strong, broad and has a client-centric approach to find the best solutions.
The Latham team brings excellent problem-solving abilities and has excellent awareness of the market.
The partners are extremely commercially minded.
Latham is a highly specialist and capable team which is solutions-oriented and client-focused.
Latham & Watkins is very helpful and deals with issues that come up very quickly.
The team is very strong, broad and has a client-centric approach to find the best solutions.
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Brett Cassidy is a leading high-yield practitioner who regularly advises a mixture of corporates and financial institutions across a spectrum of transactions. His practice is market-leading and he routinely works on the largest deals in the space.
Brett delivers practical and digestible advice, with good execution.
Brett Cassidy is a high-yield savant.
Jennifer Engelhardt is highly respected for her work for underwriters and corporate groups. She comes highly recommended for advising oil and gas clients on bond issuances.
Jennifer is extremely targeted in her advice.
Jennifer is amazingly responsive and thinks a few steps ahead to anticipate what may be helpful. She is a leader in the practice area.
Mark Austin is widely recognised as a leading capital markets lawyer. He is equally at home advising issuers and underwriters, and regularly works on some of the largest transactions in the market.
He brings expertise, judgement and creativity to everything he does.
Christopher Horton brings a wealth of experience to his advice and representation on ECM matters. He regularly represents financial institutions and companies on IPOs and secondary listings.
Christopher has incredibly deep experience.
Christopher is very hands-on in the details, always knows what the issues are and gets to the bottom of things very quickly.
He is a great and thoughtful lawyer.
Jocelyn Seitzman is a prominent player in the high-yield space and often represents issuers on high-yield bonds issuances.
Jocelyn is very smart and in the details.
She is an exceptional individual with a commercial mindset who delivers every time.
Francesco Lione regularly advises a mix of corporate issuers and financial institutions in the high-yield space. He has experience on cross-border mandates, with particular expertise on European and US matters.
James Inness serves as co-leader of Latham's English law ECM practice. He is best known for his work advising underwriters on equity offerings.
He is an exceptional lawyer.
James is extremely commercially minded.
He is easily able to distil issues and has a very pragmatic approach.
David Stewart is noted for his emerging markets practice. He is experienced at advising sovereign issuance work, especially in the CIS region.
David is very aware of all historic and current developments and is very business-oriented.
He is very commercially-minded and very client-friendly.
Manoj Tulsiani capably advises underwriters, dealers and issuers on an array of debt transactions.
Manoj is very smart, technically brilliant and commercial.
Anna Ngo is a talented equity capital markets practitioner. She is noted for her experience in reverse takeovers and cross-border transactions.
She is thorough and knowledgeable.
Anna helps navigate through tricky and unusual situations.