Latham Adds Ex-Baker Botts Capital Markets Partner in Austin

Latham & Watkins has added corporate partner Mollie Duckworth in Austin, Texas, where she formerly served as partner in charge of Baker Botts’ office, ramping up the growth of the firm’s newest office in a competitive market for talent.

Duckworth advises clients on M&A transactions, public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities. She also advises master limited partnerships, known as MLPs, a corporate entity common in the energy industry that has been a large part of Latham’s Texas practice dating back to its Houston launch in 2010.

Duckworth’s hire adds to the three partners who launched Latham’s ...