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Promotions from counsel embody expert practitioners advising purchasers throughout transactional, litigation, and regulatory issues.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Latham & Watkins LLP1 is happy to announce that 22 counsel have been elected to the partnership, efficient March 1, 2026. The counsel promotions observe the beforehand introduced election of 40 associates to the partnership, efficient January 1, 2026.
“We’re proud to welcome this extremely proficient and completed group to our partnership. They embrace our dedication to shopper service, teamwork, excellence, and drive, and can strengthen our unparalleled platform and guarantee our continued success,” mentioned Wealthy Trobman, Chair and Managing Companion of Latham & Watkins.
The counsel who’ve been elected companions are:
Julian Azran (New York) is a member of the M&A and Non-public Fairness Apply. He represents private and non-private corporations, monetary sponsors, and their portfolio corporations in company transactions, together with M&A, joint ventures, leveraged buy-outs, investments, co-investments, and company governance issues, with a give attention to the leisure, sports activities, and media industries.
Sandra Benjamin (New York) is a member of the Government Compensation, Employment & Advantages Apply. She advises company purchasers on advanced labor and employment points, together with dangers associated to M&A and different transactions, worker and different employee agreements, insurance policies and practices, worker disputes, reductions in power and severance preparations, and compliance with federal, state, and native employment legal guidelines.
Erika Brini Raimondi (Milan) is a member of the Banking & Non-public Credit score Apply. She advises non-public fairness sponsors, monetary establishments, and portfolio corporations on financing transactions, together with acquisition and leveraged buyout financings, public takeover financings, non-public fairness and company financings, financial institution mortgage syndications, debt capital markets, and direct lending and personal credit score transactions.
Corey Calabrese (New York) is a member of the Securities and M&A Litigation Apply. She represents public corporations and monetary establishments in securities class actions, shareholder spinoff fits, and SEC and different regulatory investigations, and he or she additionally represents purchasers in antitrust and complicated business litigation issues.
Emily Corbi (New York) is a member of the Public Firm Illustration Apply. She advises public corporations concerning reporting obligations, company governance issues, and different points associated to public firm standing, together with compliance with proxy rule necessities, insider reporting obligations, and buying and selling restrictions.
Becky Critchley (London) is a member of the Capital Markets Apply. She advises funding banks, company finance homes, regtech and fintech corporations, fund managers, lenders, and on-line buying and selling companies on UK monetary providers rules, notably referring to client protections, structured finance transactions, and benchmark regulation.
Kirstin Scheffler Do (Chicago) is a member of the White Collar Protection & Investigations Apply. She represents healthcare and life sciences corporations in authorities investigations, advanced business litigation, and regulatory proceedings, together with in issues involving the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, and different alleged fraudulent conduct.
Michael Dreibelbis (Los Angeles) is a member of the Setting, Land & Assets Apply. He advises non-public fairness sponsors and different buyers and mission builders on advanced offtake agreements and different investments referring to power transition, with an emphasis on carbon seize and sequestration, low-carbon gas provide and certification, California cap-and-trade compliance, and voluntary carbon offset transactions.
Kelly Gelfand Egers (New York) is a member of the Banking & Non-public Credit score Apply. She represents monetary establishments in leveraged finance transactions, together with non-public credit score amenities, syndicated loans, asset-based financings, cross-border financings, and high-yield debt choices.
Amanda Fortuna (London) is a member of the Banking & Non-public Credit score Apply. She advises sponsors, monetary establishments, and debtors on multi-jurisdictional financings and strategic transactions in core and hybrid infrastructure, together with acquisition and strategic development financings, platform refinancings, joint ventures, and capital construction optimizations.
Intelligent Gallegos (New York) is a member of the Banking & Non-public Credit score Apply. He advises funding banks, non-public credit score funds, asset managers, various financing sources, and company debtors on advanced financing transactions throughout the capital construction, together with acquisition financings, cross-border transactions, asset-based financings, recurring revenue-based financings, GPU financings, in addition to restructurings and legal responsibility administration.
Joachim Grittmann (Frankfurt) is a member of the Connectivity, Privateness & Info Apply. He advises public and personal purchasers in regulated industries on all points of German public and regulatory legislation, with a give attention to digital and power infrastructure regulation, environmental and ESG legal guidelines, and sanctions and export management.
Delyth Hughes (London) is a member of the Capital Markets Apply. She advises buy-side and sell-side purchasers on advanced cross-border OTC spinoff transactions and related regulation throughout asset lessons, together with rate of interest, forex, commodity and inflation-linked hedging, structured deal contingent preparations, repo, whole return swap and stock-lending transactions, and Sharia-compliant spinoff transactions.
Christopher (Topher) Michail (Los Angeles) is a member of the Structured Finance Apply. He advises asset managers, banks, enterprise improvement corporations, giant monetary establishments, and debtors on financing transactions, together with collateralized mortgage obligations, secured and unsecured credit score amenities, acquisition financings, structured automobile financings, asset securitizations, and three way partnership origination platforms.
Paul Moura (New York) is a member of the Advanced Industrial Litigation Apply. He represents US and worldwide purchasers in enterprise disputes and high-stakes insurance coverage issues, together with protection disputes, in addition to advising on international coverages and the dangers related to rising applied sciences, enterprise crises, and company transactions.
Matthew Peters (Washington, D.C.) is a member of the Securities and M&A Litigation Apply. He represents corporations and executives in advanced litigation, together with securities fraud class actions, shareholder spinoff litigation, de-SPAC litigation, SEC investigations, inner investigations, and books-and-records calls for.
Seth Richardson (San Diego) is a member of the Mission Growth & Finance Apply. He advises mission sponsors, buyers, and lenders on the event and financing of renewable and traditional power tasks, petrochemical crops and liquefied pure gasoline terminals, information facilities, resorts and conference facilities, athletic complexes, and different infrastructure tasks.
Gloria Ring (Boston) is a member of the M&A and Non-public Fairness Apply. She advises strategic consumers and sellers, in addition to non-public fairness corporations and their portfolio corporations, on acquisitions, inclinations, recapitalizations, joint ventures, public sale processes, minority investments and financings, reorganizations, asset and enterprise division carve-outs, and company restructurings, with a give attention to the life sciences business.
Tim Scott (London) is a member of the M&A and Non-public Fairness Apply. He represents purchasers in company and transactional issues within the insurance coverage sector, together with M&A, funded reinsurance, sidecars, asset structuring for prudential functions underneath Solvency II and different regimes, insurer insolvency and determination, and company reorganizations.
Philipp Studt (Brussels) is a member of the Antitrust & Competitors Apply. He advises each non-public fairness sponsors and industrial purchasers in relation to all points of antitrust and FDI legislation, with a selected give attention to offering strategic recommendation to purchasers on navigating the rising variety of FDI regimes globally.
Tara Tavernia (Washington, D.C.) is a member of the Antitrust & Competitors Apply. She represents private and non-private corporations and personal fairness corporations in advanced antitrust issues, with a give attention to strategic mergers and authorities conduct investigations.
Jude Volek (Washington, D.C.) is a member of the White Collar Protection & Investigations Apply. He advises corporations, universities, and different purchasers on inner investigations, authorities enforcement actions, regulatory issues, and litigation, together with in issues involving civil rights-related points in addition to synthetic intelligence and different quickly advancing applied sciences.
About Latham & Watkins (lw.com)
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Notes to Editors
1Latham & Watkins operates worldwide as a restricted legal responsibility partnership organized underneath the legal guidelines of the State of Delaware (USA) with affiliated restricted legal responsibility partnerships conducting the observe in France, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, and the UK and as an affiliated partnership conducting the observe in Japan. Latham & Watkins operates in Israel by way of a restricted legal responsibility firm, in South Korea as a International Authorized Marketing consultant Workplace, and in Saudi Arabia by way of a restricted legal responsibility firm.
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