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What the Team is Known For

Latham & Watkins acts for a who's who of the nation's leading public companies on the full range of corporate governance and securities compliance matters. Clients can call upon the team's institutional expertise in acting for large corporates, with expert resources in corporate governance, shareholder activism and SEC-facing matters. The firm also houses a number of former SEC luminaries in its national office to offer tailored guidance in SEC compliance and reporting issues.

Work Highlights

  • Latham & Watkins continued to offer corporate governance advice to Rivian following its $11.9 billion initial public offering in 2021.

Strengths

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Their strengths are that they're extremely practical and have an understanding of our business and the risks we face. They're my go-to firm.

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For any kind of corporate advice, they have people who are real experts and we've been very happy with the team and how fast they move.

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There is a lot of scrutiny of public companies and the complexity of our business is insane, but a firm like Latham can help us address the sheer range of matters that arise.

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They're my first call and our trusted partners on activist, governance and securities issues. They're our go-to in those areas.

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They're obviously an elite firm, they have extraordinary knowledge of this area and a large bench to offer expert, niche advice. They're responsive, they do excellent work and they're practical.

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Notable Practitioners

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Keith Halverstam
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Keith Halverstam chairs the firm's public company and board advisory practice. He offers wide-ranging skills in corporate governance and reporting issues, as well as capital markets transactions and crisis management matters.

Keith is our consigliere. He is extremely pragmatic - no-one that's in-house needs the textbook answer. What's useful is that he is thinking about the law in the context of our company.

On high-profile matters where we want to talk through things with senior leaders, he can speak with real gravitas to the board and the committees; he knows what his audience needs.

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Jenna Cooper
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Jenna Cooper acts for a range of domestic and international clients on corporate governance and compliance issues.

She is a go-to person for us and knows how to navigate us through difficulties. She saves us time and trouble.

Jenna has supported our public company needs and is amazing. She has helped us navigate complex issues with sound, practical advice.

She has been a fantastic partner to us. She's really pragmatic and has taken the time to know our business well, which I really appreciate.

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Joel Trotter
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Joel Trotter is considered a font of wisdom and expertise for SEC-facing corporate governance matters, acting for emerging and mature public companies on a broad range of reporting, compliance and enforcement work.

He not only knows the right answers, he knows that there aren't always right ones, but he can find the balanced response to align our legal needs with our corporate objectives.

He's my go-to SEC lawyer. He learned from the best, including former SEC Commissioners and the like, and he's now at the sweet spot of his career. He's very, very practical.

He is brilliant, and intelligent too, and he has a great practicality to him, with a real sense of the company's needs and the realities we face, with a good sense of the risk too.

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Keith Halverstam
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Jenna Cooper
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Joel Trotter
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