{"id":156001,"date":"2026-07-08T15:32:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/08\/this-biglaw-firm-is-dangerous-and-the-deal-flow-backs-it-up\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:32:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:32:48","slug":"this-biglaw-firm-is-dangerous-and-the-deal-flow-backs-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/08\/this-biglaw-firm-is-dangerous-and-the-deal-flow-backs-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"This Biglaw Firm Is \u2018Dangerous\u2019 \u2014 And The Deal Flow Backs It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

That combination of product specialization on the IPO and public company side, geographic proximity to the clients and industry knowledge\u2014that\u2019s what we think makes us dangerous<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Ryan Maierson<\/a>, a capital markets and M&A partner at the Houston office of Latham & Watkins, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s incredible strength in Texas when it comes to new market offerings for energy and power companies related to AI data centers. In fact, Maierson says Latham is likely to see its busiest year for U.S. energy IPOs since 2014.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post This Biglaw Firm Is \u2018Dangerous\u2019 \u2014 And The Deal Flow Backs It Up<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

That combination of product specialization on the IPO and public company side, geographic proximity to the clients and industry knowledge\u2014that\u2019s what we think makes us dangerous<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Ryan Maierson<\/a>, a capital markets and M&A partner at the Houston office of Latham & Watkins, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s incredible strength in Texas when it comes to new market offerings for energy and power companies related to AI data centers. In fact, Maierson says Latham is likely to see its busiest year for U.S. energy IPOs since 2014.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post This Biglaw Firm Is \u2018Dangerous\u2019 \u2014 And The Deal Flow Backs It Up<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. That combination of product specialization on the IPO and public company side, geographic proximity to the clients and industry knowledge\u2014that\u2019s what we think makes us dangerous. \u2014\u00a0Ryan Maierson, a capital markets and M&A partner at the Houston office of Latham & Watkins, in comments given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Staci-Zaretsky-WffgDL.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}