Associate - Corporate - Investment Funds

Latham & Watkins LLP

$225K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum of three years' experience in private investment fund formation
  • Deep understanding of fund operational matters
  • Experience handling regulatory and compliance issues
  • Ability to support a diverse range of asset classes
  • Demonstrated creativity and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

  • Advise fund sponsors on structuring and fundraising of private investment funds
  • Handle internal sponsor arrangements and co-investments
  • Manage regulatory compliance and operational issues
  • Provide insights on evolving market and regulatory environments
  • Support seasoned managers and first-time sponsors in transaction processes

Benefits

  • Comprehensive resources through the 'LiveWell Latham' program
  • Support for building a family and managing health
  • Focus on employee well-being and work-life balance
  • Equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity
  • Commitment to maintaining confidentiality and legal compliance
Full Job Description
About the Practice Group

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.

About the Role

The Investment Funds Practice is seeking to add highly qualified associates with a minimum of three years of experience in private investment fund formation 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, handling all aspects of the structuring and fundraising of private investment funds across a broad spectrum of asset classes, as well as internal sponsor arrangements, co-investments, fund operations, and regulatory and compliance matters.

Main Contact Details


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Additional Information

Investing in the well-being of our lawyers and staff is among the firm's highest priorities. Through our "LiveWell Latham" program, we offer best-in-class benefits and comprehensive resources designed to support you and your loved ones through all life's moments - from building a family and taking care of loved ones, to managing your health and saving for the future.

Pay Range

Associate Base Salary

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

Class ofUS Payroll2026$225,0002025$225,0002024$235,0002023$260,0002022$310,0002021$365,0002020$390,0002019
$420,000
2018$435,000

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