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About the Role
The Director of the Strategic and Tactical Opportunities team is a key member of Latham’s Global Finance team, responsible for expanding the group’s presence across the United States. This role involves managing the U.S.-based team, establishing strategic priorities, leading projects, allocating resources, and fostering a high-performing culture in close collaboration with senior internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Partnering closely with senior partners, client teams, and firm leadership, providing informed perspectives on market developments, emerging opportunities, and themes relevant to their practices, clients, and strategic priorities.
- Maintaining a continuous view of the market, identifying early signals, structural shifts, and emerging themes across financial markets, industries, and products, and assessing their potential relevance to the firm and its clients.
- Translating complex market and industry developments into differentiated, commercially relevant insights, and actionable recommendations, drawing on quantitative analysis, qualitative research, proprietary intelligence, and external perspectives.
- Identifying and evaluating opportunities across sectors, geographies, products, and transactions, connecting market developments with the firm’s capabilities, relationships, and strategic priorities.
- Leading high-profile and strategically important projects from inception through delivery, defining the analytical approach, mobilizing resources, and ensuring rigorous, high-quality outputs.
- Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains.
Requirements
- Demonstrate exceptional analytical, strategic and commercial judgment, with the ability to synthesize complex market, financial and industry information into clear, actionable insights.
- Exhibit deep knowledge of financial markets, industries and products, with the ability to identify emerging trends and opportunities.
- Possess outstanding communication and executive presence, with the credibility to engage effectively with senior management, partners, clients, investors, and other external stakeholders.
- A minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience in investment banking, investment management, equity research, management consulting, strategic advisory, corporate finance, or a related field.
- Demonstrated progression into senior roles with responsibility for leading complex, high-impact work and advising senior stakeholders.
- Proven experience developing market, investment or strategic analysis and translating complex information into clear, actionable insights.
- A minimum of ten (10) years of cumulative experience.
- Experience working with law firms, professional services firms, institutional investors or sophisticated corporate clients.
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- JD
- MBA
Salary/Compensations
- USD $350,000.00 - USD $400,000.00 /Yr.
Benefits
- Healthcare, life and disability insurance
- A generous 401k plan
- At least 11 paid holidays per year
- PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
- Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
- Professional development programs
- Employee discounts
- Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff
About the Company
- 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 around the world.
- Our investment in people, commitment to innovation, and focus on the future empower you to build an incredible career and thrive as an exceptional professional in a supportive culture.
- If you aspire to be the best, and work with the best, this is where you belong.
Equal Opportunity
- The Firm prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status (including veterans of the Vietnam era), gender expression, marital status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by applicable statute.