Latham & Watkins has hired a duo of laterals, boosting its private equity practice in San Francisco with Cooley partner Eric Schwartzman, and adding former Obama White House lawyer Michael Bosworth to its white collar litigation practice in New York.
Schwartzman, who previously practiced at Latham, advises private equity sponsors, strategic corporate acquirers, and target companies on a wide array of deals. His clients have included The Sovereign Wealth Fund of Oman and Carlyle, and he has represented clients in successful exits to KKR and Vista, among other investment firms.
His lateral move comes amid a shakeup of the Silicon ...