Lisa G. Watts

Lisa Watts, Vice Chair of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, focuses on the development of the firm’s strategic direction and manages its global presence. In addition, she advises clients on corporate and partnership taxation. Lisa brings more than two decades of experience with complex transactional tax issues to her work advising clients.

Lisa regularly serves private equity firms, US-based and foreign public and private companies, REITs and UPREITs, partnerships and limited liability companies, as well as investment banks.

Specifically, Lisa helps clients navigate the tax aspects of significant US and cross-border transactions, including:

- Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures

- Joint ventures

- Recapitalizations

- Public financings, including initial public offerings

- Corporate restructurings

Lisa handles a broad range of transactional tax matters, with experience advising clients on all matter of M&A transactions, through the dual-track process, offering enhanced flexibility when planning an exit transaction, as well as clients contemplating an up-C structure. Lisa also has considerable experience advising on sophisticated transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies (SPAC).