Platinum Equity announced the sale of Livingston International, an international trade services firm specializing in customs brokerage, freight forwarding, and trade consulting, to Purolator, Inc., a leading integrated freight, package, and logistics solutions provider.

Latham & Watkins LLP represents Platinum Equity and Livingston International in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by Washington, D.C. partner David Brown, with associate Monica Hernandez. Advice was also provided on tax matters by New York partner Matthew Dewitz; on benefits matters by Washington, D.C. partner Matthew Conway; on antitrust matters by Washington, D.C. partner Patrick English, with associate Ben Bouwman; on hedging matters by New York partner Carlos Alvarez, with associate Tiiu Lemsalu; on real estate matters by Chicago counsel Jeffrey Anderson; on English law matters by London partners Tom Evans and Maarten Overmars and London counsel James Leslie, with associates Jia Yan Ng, Angus Baird, and Thomas O’Malley; on Spanish law matters by Madrid partner Ignacio Pallares, with associate Lucia de Bustos; on French law matters by Paris partner Simon Lange; on German law matters by Frankfurt partner Maximilian Platzer, with associate Dominique Brieger; on Chinese law matters by associate Vincent Jiang; and on Hong Kong law matters by associate Bonnie Tse.