Thomas Keim Jr.

Continuing its aggressive expansion into Chicago, King & Spalding has landed its first corporate partner in the Windy City, bringing on former Latham & Watkins Chicago corporate department chair Thomas “Ted” Keim.

Keim comes to King & Spalding after 19 years at Latham, where he also was a member of the firm's finance committee and a former member of its strategic client committee.

He is the sixth partner to join King & Spalding's Chicago office since it was launched in September by former U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon of the Northern District of Illinois, who earlier in his career was a colleague of Keim's at Latham. But the goal is to keep adding more.