Industries
Latham’s interdisciplinary communications team advises many of the world’s leading providers of communications services, including broadband internet access providers, cable operators and content providers, mobile and fixed telecommunications carriers, and satellite companies, as well as investors and lenders, on the full spectrum of regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters that are shaping the industry.
Drawing on deep experience working across sectors, before major trial and appellate courts and regulatory bodies, and in markets around the globe, we provide clients unparalleled insight and practical counsel on their toughest matters. Our industry and government experience allows us to help clients see around regulatory and market corners and meet their strategic goals. With globe-spanning capabilities across the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, we can effectively counsel clients on communications matters virtually anywhere in the world.
Latham lawyers are grounded in decades of experience across all sectors of entertainment, sports and media. During recent years, these industries have continued to rapidly evolve, overlapping with each other more and more and increasingly focusing on technology and complex global transactions. Reflecting this changing landscape, Latham entertainment, sports and media lawyers provide sophisticated counsel to industry clients — including motion picture studios, production companies, sports teams and leagues, venues, events, marketers, broadcasters and industry associations — on acquisitions, content licensing, technology and new media agreements, and more.
Latham regulatory and technology lawyers support fintech startups in navigating strategically important issues in the markets that matter to them. The firm provides emerging companies, at all stages of development, access to a truly integrated global Fintech Industry Group that not only understands the innovative technology, but the financial markets in which it is being deployed. Latham has a vast and long-standing track record dealing with financial and data regulators across the globe in relation to both new business models and new financial products. Latham lawyers also help fintech startups collaborate and form consortiums with leading participants in the fintech ecosystem to develop and bring their financial products and services to market.
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Latham’s global tech platform scales to meet the needs and ambitions of our clients, so they can make faster, smarter, and stronger moves.
Latham combines an unrivaled global platform with deep tech experience — serving clients from Silicon Valley to Hong Kong, garages to boardrooms, scaling to meet each client’s unique needs and ambitions. We understand the tech sector’s evolving complexities and opportunities, which allows us to deftly guide clients through legal and commercial challenges on the path to achieving their goals.
We advise startups, tech giants, traditional businesses transforming through technology, and the investment banks, venture capital firms, and private equity sponsors that serve them. We consistently deliver deep sector knowledge, legal expertise, as well as commercial and government insights.
We draw on our widely recognized market-leading capabilities in key areas, including venture capital, capital markets, M&A, data privacy and security, IP litigation, and public company representation to help clients deliver on their vision.
Our clients have complex needs, and we’re there with them at every step, anticipating the unexpected, and ready to rise to any challenge.
The Internet-driven economy creates complex legal challenges that require expertise in multiple disciplines. At Latham & Watkins, we offer an integrated solution to those challenges — one that tracks the ways that companies confront them, regulators address them, and judges consider them.
Our Connectivity, Privacy & Information Practice brings together a global team of lawyers with wide-ranging experience addressing the critical legal issues arising from digital technology and services, in disciplines including communications, privacy and cyber, and copyright. Our team handles high-profile litigation, regulatory investigations and counseling, internal investigations, and technology transactions for clients in a diverse array of industry sectors. Our deep bench of counselors and litigators enables us to handle matters requiring extensive experience in particular areas of the law governing digital commerce, as well as matters that cut across legal silos.
Latham offers life sciences and healthcare industry leaders deep sector knowledge, legal expertise, and commercial and government insight to meet client needs.
Latham’s cross-disciplinary healthcare and life sciences team delivers insightful, practical guidance and sophisticated representation to a full spectrum of companies across the globe, on every type of transaction or dispute a company may face. Many of us hold advanced scientific degrees and have served in senior positions as government regulators, C-Suite executives in leading healthcare and life sciences companies, as well as serving as primary outside counsel for key industry associations.
We regularly navigate commercial and regulatory issues related to the Food and Drug Administration, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board, the European Medicines Agency, the European Commission, and other state, and federal agencies in the US and across Europe.
The semiconductor industry plays a central role in today’s technology-based economy. Latham & Watkins offers semiconductor industry clients resources only a global firm specifically targeting the semiconductor industry can deliver.
Latham’s Semiconductor Industry Group counsels public and private semiconductor companies at all stages of development, including semiconductor technology start-ups and mature public companies.
What sets Latham apart is its significant presence in key semiconductor markets, including Silicon Valley, London, Washington, D.C., Munich, Tokyo, Singapore and Shanghai. In addition, the breadth of the practice provides semiconductor clients with legal expertise to meet the challenges of growing a semiconductor business in a crowded global marketplace, whether those needs are financing, intellectual property licensing or commercial transactions, strategic alliances, litigation, regulatory, bankruptcy, environmental, tax or employment.
The firm’s semiconductor clients include companies engaged in the design, manufacture and commercialization of ASICs, programmable logic devices and memory ICs. Latham regularly works with companies engaged in design automation and design tools supply, semiconductor design services and semiconductor process technology. Latham advises semiconductor manufacturing tool companies and businesses involved with packaging and testing equipment and services.
Latham also works with microprocessor companies, as well as board and component-level businesses that require semiconductor devices. Representative examples of our clients include AMD, Broadcom, Dialog, Spansion, Marvell, Mentor Graphics, and MPS among many others.
Latham’s digital assets and Web3 team works at the leading edge of blockchain-enabled innovation, often setting legal and regulatory precedents that govern new assets and industries.
We help innovators and investors bring to market new digital assets, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), crypto derivatives and structured products, market infrastructure solutions, and blockchain-based protocols and organizations. We advise clients across the digital asset and Web3 ecosystem, including venture capital and investment funds, tech companies and protocol developers, exchanges and marketplaces, entertainment, sports, and media organizations, ventures developing decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), cryptocurrency miners, as well as institutional infrastructure providers and financial institutions.
Latham combines a sophisticated understanding of the technology underlying digital assets and Web3 with a commercial sensibility and ahead-of-the-curve insight into the regulatory direction of travel.
As part of the firm's dedication to innovation in the tokenization space, Latham collaborated with ConsenSys to develop the Automated Convertible Note, an OpenLaw-based document generator that helps startups raise capital with customizable market standard terms and optional digital token provisions.
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