Latham & Watkins and Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer are advising Boston-based Aura Consolidated Group on its merger with Australia’s Qoria to create a digital safety group with a combined value of $2.1 billion. Australian firm Thomson Geer is advising long-standing client Qoria, with partner Hedley Roost leading a team that includes partner Sanushka Seomangal. “This is a genuinely transformational transaction that brings together two global leaders in digital safety at a time when online trust, protection and wellbeing have never been more important,” Roost said in a statement. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is advising Qoria as U.S. counsel, Macfarlanes as U.K. counsel, and Uría Menéndez as Spanish counsel. The HSF Kramer team advising Aura includes partners Michael Ziegelaa, Kam Jamshidi and Alex Mackinnon. Latham partners Ian Schuman, Stelios Saffos, and Sarah Axtel are also advising. The deal will be implemented by way of an Australian scheme of arrangement under which Aura will acquire 100% of Qoria, with Qoria shareholders receiving equity in Aura via CHESS Depositary Interests. Aura will seek to list on the Australian Securities Exchange.