Mahira Dayal

Latham Tops Kirkland for M&A Crown in Year Marked by Megadeals Latham & Watkins expects the brisk pace of deals work to continue in the new year after dethroning Kirkland & Ellis as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2025. “I al... See more

Lawyers from Paul Weiss and Cooley LLP advised on International Business Machines Corp.'s plan to buy data-streaming platform Confluent Inc. for about $9.3 billion. The transaction is the latest AI takeover as technology companies race to bolster their ec... See more

Paramount Skydance Corp. turned to lawyers from Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Latham & Watkins to make a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. days after Warner Bros. reached to a deal with Netflix Inc. The Cravath team assisting Paramount inc... See more

The country’s top law firms are guiding the $72 billion deal for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is guiding Netflix on the deal, announced Friday after a contentious bidding process. Warner Bros. turned to attorneys from two firms—Wachtell Lipton... See more

As Proskauer Rose celebrates 150 years, the New York law firm’s leader is trying to position it for the “equivalent of the Industrial Revolution” being brought on by the rise of artificial intelligence. “We can’t hide from it, and we’re running towards it... See more