Ashley Latham

Ashley is a senior associate in Linklaters’ U.S. Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations Practice. Ashley has experience in white-collar criminal defense, sensitive internal investigations, and contentious regulatory matters, including antitrust and cartel matters. Ashley regularly advises clients on a broad array of cross-border regulatory issues, including U.S. antitrust laws, False Claims Act, economic sanctions, anti-boycott laws, and anti-bribery laws. She also advises on crisis management and assists in conducting pre-acquisition regulatory due diligence.

Ashley serves as Vice Chair of the ABA Antitrust Law Section’s Cartel and Criminal Practice Committee. Ashley also has an active Pro Bono practice focused on supporting civil rights, which has included working closely with the Human Rights Campaign and the National Women’s Law Center.

Ashley is qualified to practice law in New York and Ontario, Canada.

Work highlights

Representative legal matters include:

• Executive of a global fragrance house: defending an individual in parallel cartel investigations being conducted by the DOJ and other antitrust authorities.
• Sports union: conducting a sensitive internal investigation focused on corporate governance matters.
• Non-U.S. energy company: advising on pre-acquisition anti-corruption, economic sanctions, and anti-money laundering due diligence.
• Non-U.S. aerospace company: advising on anti-boycott laws and implications in the event of expanded export restrictions.
• Individual: representing an individual in parallel insider trading investigations by the DOJ and SEC.
• Individual: successfully representing an individual in a de-listing petition for the removal of economic sanctions.
• Various clients: conducting internal investigations into allegations of price-fixing and related antitrust violations.
• Various clients: advising on regulatory compliance and the establishment of regulatory compliance programs addressing various types of financial crimes.

Ashley completed the JD/MBA program at Western University in Canada in 2017. Ashley was recognized on Western Law’s Dean's Honor List and was awarded the Bernard and Bessie Wolf Scholarship for attaining the highest average in the JD/MBA program. During the program, three of Ashley’s course papers were published in peer-reviewed academic journals. 

Today, Ashley is member of Western Law’s Young Alumni Advisory Council, which is comprised of identified committed and knowledgeable leaders in the legal profession tasked with lending their experiences and perspectives to further the law school’s mission.

Ashley’s publications include:

• Co-author, “Competition Tribunal Procedure”, 4th edition of Fundamentals of Canadian Competition Law, edited by James Musgrove
• Co-author, “Mitigating Risk Exposure to Forced Labour in the Supply Chain” (2021), Canadian Corporate Counsel, Vol. 30, No. 6
• “Airline Alliances: Justifying the Bureau’s Intervention” (2016) 41:6 Air & Space Law 475