Latham & Watkins LLP¹ is pleased to announce that Ryan J. Maierson has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner in the Corporate Department. Maierson’s practice includes advising on mergers and acquisitions, representing sponsors and portfolio companies in private equity investments, representing issuers and underwriters in securities offerings, and advising on corporate governance matters.

Maierson has a diverse corporate practice, having advised numerous companies and financial sponsors in public and private M&A transactions and securities offerings. He has also represented a number of master limited partnerships (MLPs) and board special committees in connection with related party M&A transactions. In securities matters, Maierson also represents underwriters in both equity and debt offerings for both corporate and MLP issuers. Latham’s Houston office now has 11 partners among a total of 36 attorneys, after launching a year ago with eight founding partners (see: http://www.lw.com/News.aspx?page=FirmNewsDetail&office=35&publication=3411)

“Latham’s energy industry practice focuses on highly sophisticated matters that are vital to our clients. The addition of Ryan enhances our deep industry experience and supports our mission to provide high-quality expertise and guidance to clients with respect to all of their legal needs,” said Michael Dillard, Office Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins in Houston.

Sean Wheeler, Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department in the Houston office, added: “We regularly advise midstream, upstream oil and gas, oil field services manufacturing and shipping companies on complex partnership, tax and business issues. In Ryan, we have added to our energy practice group an attorney with stellar capital markets and M&A experience who, in concert with lawyers in our tax, employee benefits, environmental and regulatory practices, will provide premier services to clients in the energy sector.”

“Latham & Watkins has demonstrated a strong commitment to growing its energy industry practice, and I am pleased to join this outstanding team at a very exciting time for the firm as a whole and for my personal practice,” said Maierson.

Maierson joins the firm from Baker Botts LLP, where he had been a partner since 2007. He received his JD with honors from The University of Texas Law School in 1996 and graduated with a BS in economics, magna cum laude, in 1992 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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