Latham & Watkins LLP announced today that it has opened a new office in Boston, adding six new partners and one counsel with extensive experience in the Boston market. These attorneys represent a broad array of public and private companies in the technology, clean technology and life sciences industries. Latham’s newest office, located in the John Hancock Tower, will offer clients advice on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets and other financing transactions including: leveraged recapitalizations, management buyouts, public and private mergers and acquisitions, growth equity investments, early and late stage private equity investments and securities offerings.
Latham & Watkins Chairman and Managing Partner Robert M. Dell said: “We’re delighted to be opening our newest office in Boston, a market that is rich in public and private companies focused on evolving technologies and the venture capital firms and investment banks that fuel and support their growth. Boston is home to one of the most dynamic private equity markets in the United States, and we see significant opportunities in Boston to expand our global private equity practice. Latham’s experience in helping emerging companies grow and thrive as well as our global reach and substantial depth in private equity, capital markets and mergers and acquisitions are perfectly complemented and enhanced by this group of Boston-based attorneys who have joined us.”
The group includes:
Partners John Chory, Peter Handrinos, Susan Mazur and Phil Rossetti, who offer substantial experience working with emerging companies, venture funds and investment banks, and whose practices, collectively, cover the broad range of needs of emerging companies, including: initial and late-stage venture financings and other financing transactions; mergers and acquisitions; capital markets; and general company representation. Chory and Mazur join Latham from the Waltham office of WilmerHale. Rossetti and Handrinos join Latham from the Boston office of WilmerHale.
Private equity Partner Hans Brigham and counsel Julie Scallen, who join Latham from Bingham McCutchen’s Boston office. Both are principally engaged in M&A and growth equity and venture investing for private equity and venture funds, as well as for strategic buyers.
Private equity partner Alex Temel, joining Latham from Proskauer Rose’s Boston office, who offers substantial experience advising clients in connection with leveraged recapitalizations, management buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, early and late stage private equity investments and secondary transactions.
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Patrick Pohlen, Global Co-Chair of Latham & Watkins’ Emerging Companies Practice Group and partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office, said: “Latham & Watkins has developed a leading emerging companies practice by combining a global platform with a network of attorneys equipped to support a company’s full life cycle, from raw startup to Fortune 100 company. Our emerging companies group provides services to the technology, life sciences and cleantech industries. We have a strong presence in the technology markets of Silicon Valley and Southern California and are now thrilled to be opening an office in Boston with these experienced attorneys who will complement and extend our practice and add depth in the region for our clients.”
Phil Rossetti, who serves as the Office Managing Partner for the Boston office, said: “The region’s long history of innovation is a large part of what attracted me to practice in Boston many years ago and I’m pleased to be part of Latham’s entry into this important market. The firm’s clients will be well-served by the extensive experience of the attorneys in our new Boston office and by Latham’s outstanding global experience in life sciences, clean technology and information technology.”
Alex Temel, who serves as the Chair of the Corporate Department for Latham’s Boston office, said: “I am looking forward to working with my new colleagues to build a strong private equity, growth equity and mergers and acquisitions practice representing fund clients, investment banks, strategic buyers and portfolio companies in all aspects of investments, acquisitions and dispositions. It will be a significant advantage for our clients to work with a Boston-based team complemented by global resources who know the clients’ businesses and have the depth of talent to serve the clients no matter the issue or market. ”
