A report from the International Law Office titled September’s Private Practitioner Moves shows a list of lawyers moving into different companies including the United States law firm Latham & Watkins taking in Kirt Switzer in its San Francisco and Silicon Valley Offices, and Tim Ross in its Dubai office.

Manda Deals released a report titled Private Equity Firm Acquires BARTEC illustrating the internationally-renowned law firm Latham & Watkins as the lead legal and tax adviser for the acquisition of BARTEC, an industrial safe technology provider, by Capvis, a Swiss private equity firm, providing finance advice, tax due diligence, acquisition structure, and negotiation of the agreement.

A report form the International Financial Law Review titled “Latham Helps Etisalat Invest in Swan” describes how the international law firm Latham and Watkins represented Etisalat, the largest telecom services provider in the Middle East, in its acquisition of a 45% stake in the Indian operator Swan Telecom.

An article from the San Francisco Business Times titled Genentech Forms Committee to Look at Roche Offer reports that the international law firm Latham and Watkins form part of the special board committee put up by Genentech Inc., a leading biotechnology corporation based in South San Francisco, in looking into the $44 billion offer of Roche Holding to purchase the remainder stocks of the company especially since they already own 55.9% of Genentech.

A report from the Law.com titled “Former Head of DOJ Criminal Division Returns to Latham & Watkins” announces the return of Alice Fisher, former head of the criminal division of the Justice Department, to the Washington office of the international law firm Latham and Watkins, where Fisher previously served as the firm’s partner from 2003 to 2005 and will now serve in the litigation department and as global co-chair of the white-collar and government investigations practice group.

An article from the Los Angeles Times titled “Law Firms Turning to a Family-Friendly Culture to Keep Female Attorneys” describes how international law firms, including Latham and Watkins, one of the largest law firms in the world, implement ways to take personal lives into consideration, such that female attorneys would want to stay with their companies amidst the high attrition rate of women in the profession.

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