Associate – Corporate – Investment Funds; Liquidity Solutions

About Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins is one of the world’s leading global law firms advising the businesses and institutions that drive the global economy. We are the market leaders in major financial and business centers globally and offer unmatched expertise and resources to help you grow from an intellectually curious self-starter into an exceptional lawyer. If you aspire to be the best, this is where you belong.

Latham’s preeminent Investment Funds Practice draws on deep experience and global reach to advise the world’s most sophisticated fund sponsors and investors. We work across the full spectrum of private capital managers, serving as long-standing advisors to many of the most well‑established global PE firms and asset management firms. We are also counsel to a broad range of emerging managers in the buyout, venture, and credit funds space.

Latham helps clients form and structure a diverse array of private investment vehicles, leveraging capabilities across practices and across the firm to navigate the global securities, tax, and regulatory aspects of such funds. As an integral part of our relationships with asset managers we also advise on a full range of day‑to‑day compliance and corporate issues. Given our global platform, we provide funds clients with unique insights into the evolving regulatory and market environments in which they operate — regularly advising asset managers on complex or novel regulatory issues.

As one of the most active firms advising on secondary transactions, we have extensive experience representing both sponsors and strategic investors across the full range of these dynamic transactions. We bring an exceptional track record and creativity to all our engagements, whether advising a seasoned manager, a first‑time sponsor, or a large‑scale institutional investor in the private capital space.

The Investment Funds Practice is seeking to add highly qualified associates with a minimum of three years of experience in liquidity transactions, secondaries markets, and related fund operational matters, to join our 4th through 6th year associate class. The practice group acts as counsel for fund sponsors around the globe, comprehensively handling liquidity transactions including but not limited to continuation funds, recapitalizations, traditional LP portfolio sales, fund‑level and GP‑level preferred equity investments, and investments in firm sponsors.

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Associate Base Salary. Discretionary bonuses may be available depending on application circumstances and position.

• 1st Year: $225,000
• 2nd Year: $235,000
• 3rd Year: $260,000
• 4th Year: $310,000
• 5th Year: $365,000
• 6th Year: $390,000
• 7th Year: $420,000
• 8th Year: $435,000

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