Jason Silvera
Partner; Global Vice Chair of Corporate Department
Latham & Watkins LLP
As the global vice-chair of Latham’s Corporate Department, Jason Silvera drives relationships with key firm clients on their most important and strategic matters. Collaborating closely with his fellow partners, Silvera guides the business direction of the firm’s largest department and its many component practice groups. With particular focus on – and insight into – the West Coast market and its specific legal trends and demands, he helps build and execute department-wide strategies to maintain and grow the firm’s corporate client base, facilitate internal communications and knowledge sharing, determine compensation and career progression, and bolster lateral partner recruiting.
Silvera also maintains a market-leading practice focused on mergers and acquisitions for private equity firms and public and private companies in a range of industries important to the local and national economy – including retail, sports, entertainment and media, internet and technology, real estate, defense, logistics, and manufacturing.