LARRY SEYMOUR
Latham & Watkins
Larry Seymour, office managing partner of Latham & Watkins’ Los Angeles and Century City offices, represents both public and private clients in the design of equity-based and other incentive compensation arrangements, severance, transaction incentive, and other executive arrangements and programs – an increasingly critical aspect of mergers and acquisitions. Seymour rose to lead the firm’s founding office this year in part on the central role his executive compensation practice plays in the major corporate transactions the firm shepherds in California and around the world. His leadership duties include strategic planning, guiding compensation and progression decisions, mentoring partners, financial performance and budget, client intake, and lawyer recruiting and integration.
In 2018, Seymour advised on the benefits and compensation aspects of major mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, initial public offerings, and other corporate transactions, and he regularly represents employers and executives in connection with the negotiation of executive employment agreements.
Among his key recent achievements has been his work counseling Cotiviti Holdings on the executive compensation aspects of its $4.9 billion acquisition by Verscend Technologies.
Seymour also advised the Committee of Independent Directors of T-Mobile US, Inc. on the definitive purchase agreement and negotiated the executive compensation, severance, and equity incentive compensation arrangements of the all-stock merger of T-Mobile with Sprint Corp. He and his team also provided general representation to T-Mobile in connection with the transaction on corporate, benefits and compensation, tax, financing, regulatory, and compliance matters. The firm represents the committee of T-Mobile’s independent directors on corporate, finance, communications, antitrust, CFIUS, intellectual property, and compliance matters. The merger would create the nation’s second-biggest wireless carrier with roughly 100 million customers.
