Cary Hyden
Co-Founder, President and Chief Legal Officer
Mr. Hyden served as Chair of the Latham Orange County Corporate Department for a decade and is regarded as one of the nation’s leading boardroom advisors with four decades of experience guiding public companies in their most important strategic, transactional, and governance matters. As a leading corporate partner at Latham & Watkins from 1994-2022, he led and completed well over 200 merger and acquisition transactions and over 75 public offerings while representing over 100 public companies. He was recognized by American Lawyer as “M&A Deal Maker of the Year” for helping lead the successful takeover defense of Allergan and its subsequent $73 billion sale.
Mr. Hyden has also been a leader in many charitable, business, and community organizations including Chair of The Forum for Corporate Directors, Chair of the CHOC Foundation Board of Directors, Chair of the $500 Million Capital Campaign for CHOC, Member of the Board of Trustees for the University of Dallas, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters (incoming Chair, effective January 2024), and many others. He has been recognized by the Orange County Business Journal multiple times in the OC 500 Directory of Influence publications as one of the top 500 influencers in Orange County.