Litigation Department of the Year Winner: Latham & Watkins

What are some of the department’s most satisfying successes of the past year and why? Nearly 200 of Latham’s 1,000+-lawyer Litigation and Trial Department call New York home, and the elite team delivered high-profile victories for clients across industries, geographies, practice areas and specialties. Notably, American Lawyer has honored our teams with Litigators of the Week: Winner six times in the last 16 months—four of which were led from New York on behalf of:

• Oracle Chairman, CTO, and cofounder Larry Ellison and CEO Safra Catz in one of the largest acquisitions—$9.4 billion—to face a stockholder challenge through trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery. • Former Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussmann in a high-profile federal criminal jury trial, securing a headline-making complete acquittal over an alleged false statement to the FBI during the 2016 presidential election. • Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals in a cross-border Chapter 11 restructuring at the intersection of mass tort, antitrust and bankruptcy law. • Poultry industry sales executive Timothy Mulrenin in successfully extracting him from a high-profile criminal antitrust case in which the Department of Justice alleged 10 poultry executives were involved in price fixing and bid-rigging for broiler chicken products.

Our New York litigators are at the forefront of a number of areas of law, resolving complex and high-value disputes, including:

• A rare complete defense verdict for Cantor Fitzgerald in the Delaware Court of Chancery under Delaware’s exacting entire fairness standard, beating a derivative challenge to BGC Partners’ $875 million acquisition of Berkeley Point Financial. • Seamlessly becoming, as New York Law Journal put it, “Peloton’s outside counsel of choice in a range of litigation,” resulting in significant victories on behalf of the at-home fitness brand. • A headline-making global settlement for J&J Surgical Vision in its global patent and copyright infringement dispute against Alcon over competing laser eye-surgery technology. • Successfully defending BitMEX co-founder and former CTO Sam Reed in a high-profile cryptocurrency enforcement matter, resolving a first-of-its-kind criminal prosecution and civil enforcement action.