Associate – Corporate - Derivatives

About Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins is one of the world’s leading global law firms advising the businesses and institutions that drive the global economy. We are the market leaders in major financial and business centers globally and offer unmatched expertise and resources to help you grow from an intellectually curious self-starter into an exceptional lawyer. If you aspire to be the best, this is where you belong.
About the Practice Group

Latham helps sophisticated market participants achieve their business objectives through careful and commercially focused attention to structuring, documenting, and negotiating the full range of derivative, strategic equity, and structured product transactions. We bring vast experience advising on transactions involving traditional assets, such as interest rates, currencies, commodities, securities, and credit, as well as innovative and complex structured products and asset classes, such as crypto, ESG, private equity, weather, longevity, and real estate. Whether clients are looking to hedge, invest, manage their balance sheet, monetize, or arbitrage, we bring an experienced and strategic perspective. Latham advises investment banks, family offices, public and private companies, and sovereign wealth funds to execute the most sophisticated and complex transactions. Our experience spans the full lifecycle of a transaction, from structuring and legal risk assessment, to negotiation, ongoing legal risk management, restructurings and defaults. Our global team has close working relationships with regulators in key markets, and represents clients facing complex investigations, enforcement, and private litigation involving derivatives and structured products. We work seamlessly across disciplines, leveraging the firm’s global platform to deliver incisive counsel to clients on the full breadth of transactional, regulatory, enforcement, and risk management aspects of strategic transactions across all key global financial markets.
About the Role

The Financial Regulatory and Derivatives practice groups of the NY office is seeking a highly qualified mid-level associate with a minimum of 3 years of experience covering a mix of transactional commodities, futures and derivatives matters to join our 3rd to 6th year associate class. Working with investment managers, financial institutions and emerging companies, the group covers a dynamic mix of Dodd-Frank, CFTC and SEC regulations coupled with derivatives transactions involving commodities, IRS, FX, and credit derivatives, futures, and FinTech and crypto trading. Candidates with expertise in transactional matters who are looking to expand their skill set are encouraged to apply.
Main Contact Details

If you have any questions about the application, please contact: Lateral Recruiting — Corporate [email protected]
Additional Information

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Pay Range

Associate Base Salary

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

Class of	US Payroll
2026	$225,000
2025	$225,000
2024	$235,000
2023	$260,000
2022	$310,000
2021	$365,000
2020	$390,000
2019	$420,000
2018	$435,000