FORMER FACEBOOK GENERAL COUNSEL JOINS LATHAM & WATKINS – PR Newswire

Colin Stretch joins the Washington, D.C., office as Of Counsel in the Public Company Representation and Emerging Companies Practices, /PRNewswire/ — Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Colin Stretch, Facebook Inc.’s (now Meta Platforms, Inc.) General Counsel from 2013-2019, has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as Of Counsel, with a focus on the Public Company Representation and Emerging Companies Practices. He will provide strategic counsel to clients, including pre-IPO and public companies and boards of directors, on a wide range of issues, spanning transactional, regulatory, public policy, and litigation matters across the globe. Colin Stretch “We are honored to welcome such a distinguished and outstanding talent to the firm,” said Daniel Lennon, Office Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins’ Washington, D.C. office. “Colin is a superb strategist with exceptional regulatory, litigation, and corporate governance experience, and he will prove an asset to clients addressing the various high-profile and complex situations that he routinely encountered at Facebook.” As General Counsel, Stretch oversaw Facebook’s legal and compliance functions and corporate legal affairs. He joined Facebook in 2010 and during his time there worked on matters ranging from litigation over the company’s founding to the IPO and its aftermath;…
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