"Latham & Watkins has a well-established presence in the French market, offering a range of IT, data protection and telecommunications services."Chambers France 2025
"Latham is a go-to firm in Paris for restructuring, particularly for the most complex international situations."The Legal 500 EMEA 2025 (France)
"Experienced in representing French and foreign clients, with particular expertise in the telecommunications, technology, healthcare and retail sectors."Chambers France 2025
"[Latham's] team offers its clients unparalleled legal expertise, strategy and unfailing availability. It knows to give access to all business law departments to finalize cases, something extremely rare on the market."Chambers Europe 2023 (France)
"Latham & Watkins has an excellent level of service and responsiveness: the lawyers can take charge of an entire case and lead it with a strong ability to anticipate and manage difficulties as early as possible."Chambers Europe 2024 (France)
"Impressive teams in Milan, Paris and Frankfurt that handle a range of cross-border high-yield matters as well as high-profile debt offerings, including sustainability-linked bonds."Chambers France 2025
"Well placed to advise clients on complex transactions, regulatory matters, and data protection issues."The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 (France)
"Latham & Watkins stands out for its combined French-US capabilities."The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 (France)
"I think they're very efficient, pragmatic, commercially minded, and really understand the issues at stake."Chambers Europe 2022 (France)
Band 1 – Banking & FinanceChambers France 2025
Few global firms can match the depth of Latham's practice in France, or the reach of the firm’s global platform.
Our in-depth understanding of the legal, regulatory, financial, and commercial dynamics that shape our clients’ industries — from financial services to life sciences, from energy and retail to sports and media — allows us to navigate the most complex domestic and cross-border deals and disputes. Connecting investors, private equity firms, and multinationals with opportunities in France, Europe, and around the globe, our Paris-based team provides unmatched transactional advice and litigation counsel across practices.
As one of the world’s largest pro bono providers, Latham takes on matters in nearly every area of public interest law. In Paris, our pro bono causes include working with social entrepreneurs and not-for-profit organizations, including the French humanitarian organization Droits d’Urgence to run a biweekly clinic at a hospital in the north of the city. Together, we help indigent clients address the legal, cultural, social, and linguistic hurdles that arise when navigating complex government bureaucracies. Our lawyers advise on asylum and immigration, debt, labor and employment, as well as criminal law, and assist with applications to public benefit programs. We also advise many Ashoka Fellows to help them establish their projects within an appropriate legal framework.
Pierre-Louis Cléro and Mathilde Saltiel are part of the ranking.
The firm and three lawyers were honored with major awards, including Deal of the Year and Lawyer of the Year.
Global Competition Review’s list honors the world’s leading antitrust practitioners, recognizing their influential contributions and achievements in the field.
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