Linklaters advised Latitude.sh, a leading global Compute-as-a-Service company, on its acquisition by Megaport Limited (ASX: MPT1), an Australian Network as a Service provider.
The acquisition will combine Megaport’s private, high-speed connectivity fabric with Latitude.sh’s compute infrastructure, enabling enterprises to rapidly deploy and connect critical workloads across more than 1,000 data centers in 26 countries.
Spanning São Paulo, New York, Washington, D.C., and London, the Linklaters team was led by Corporate Finance Partner
Matthew Poulter and M&A Partner
Pierre-Emmanuel Perais, and included Corporate Finance Senior Associate
Thomas Lemouche, M&A Associate
Lauren Wells, and Staff Attorney Letícia Correia.
The team also included Antitrust and Foreign Investment support from Partners
Antonia Sherman and
Mark Daniel, Senior Counsel
Jonathan Gafni, and Associate Erasmia Petousi; Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits support from Partner
Andrew Gaines, Senior Counsel
Janet Lee, and Associate
Sonia Bennett; TMT/IP support from Partner
Ieuan Jolly, Counsel
Shruti Chopra and
Kris Ekdahl, and Associates
Moses Kim, Noah Geoghegan, and Olivia Williams; Tax support from Partner
Gabriel Grossman, Counsel
Sean McKeever, and Associate
Reuven Rosen; Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations support from Counsel
Caio Campello; and additional Corporate Finance support from Foreign Attorney Francisco Algorta, Staff Attorney Juan Ignacio Itzaina, and Legal Intern Lucas da Riva.
Linklaters has practiced in Latin America for decades and the firm was one of the first international firms to open an office in Brazil in 1997. With a growing team of Latin America-focused lawyers across the firm’s New York, Washington, D.C., and São Paulo offices, the firm continues to increase its presence in the Latin America region and deepen existing relationships with leading local law firms. Linklaters is highly ranked across key Latin America legal directories including Chambers, Legal 500, and Latin Lawyer.