Latham & Watkins has a strong reputation for ITO transactions and regulatory matters affecting the outsourcing market, and it is also involved in some high-value BPO deals, notably in the education technology sector. The firm also has market-leading expertise in the digital health area, where it handles outsourcing, regulatory and contentious matters. The firm’s global data and technology transactions team, led by Ghaith Mahmood in LA, has a standout outsourcing specialist in Morgan Brubaker, who assists clients of the firm’s corporate group with complex and cutting-edge transactions both in the US and globally. She frequently works with other emerging band established technology companies, as well as private equity firms, in major projects focused on the adoption of new technologies, and is highly experienced in core areas of ITO, notably AI and cloud infrastructure.
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Clients clés
- Ares Management Corporation
- Amphenol Corporation
- Bending Spoons SpA
- Cadence Design Systems
- CoStar Group, Inc.
- Endeavor
- Hilton Worldwide
- Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (“IMCO”)
- MicroStrategy Incorporated
- Permira
Points forts
- Advised Silver Lake Partners, an American global private equity firm focused on technology and technology-enabled investments, on intellectual property and technology matters in connection with its US$9.2 billion equity investment (along with DigitalBridge Group) in the North America business of Vantage Data Centers, an IT service management provider for the world's well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers, AI companies and large enterprises.
- Advised IMCO, one of Canada's largest institutional investors, on the technology aspects of its US$500 million investment in Scala Data Centers, a leading hyperscale sustainable data center platform in Latin America.
- Advised Amphenol Corporation, one of the world’s largest designers, manufacturers and marketers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable, on the technology aspects of its: |US$2 billion acquisition of the Carlisle Interconnect Technologies business of Carlisle Companies, a leading global supplier of harsh environment interconnect solutions primarily to the commercial air, |defense| and industrial end markets.||US$2.1 billion acquisition of Mobile Networks Businesses From CommScope including the purchase of CommScope’s Outdoor Wireless Networks segment|,| as well as the Distributed Antenna Systems business which resides in CommScope’s Networking, Intelligent Cellular and Security Solutions segment.
Avocats
Les grands avocats de demain
Jeunes associés disposant d’une reconnaissance montante sur le marché, jouant régulièrement un rôle clé dans des dossiers majeurs.
Responsable de la pratique
Ghaith Mahmood; Gail Crawford
Autres avocats clés
Morgan Brubaker