Latham’s Hyatt Legal Fees Spike 57% Amid Hotel Buying Spree

Hyatt Hotels Corp. paid nearly $23.2 million last year to Latham & Watkins, a roughly 57% increase over the more than $14.7 million the global law firm received from the hospitality giant in 2023.

Latham’s fees were revealed by Hyatt in a proxy statement filed Tuesday. The Chicago-based hotel chain disclosed what it paid Latham because a corporate partner at the firm, Michael Pucker, is the brother-in-law of its billionaire executive chairman Thomas Pritzker.

Pucker, who is married to Jean “Gigi” Pritzker and is chairman and CEO of her family office DNS Capital LLC, was part of teams of ...