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Haim Zaltzman
Position
Haim Zaltzman, Global Vice Chair of Latham’s Emerging Companies & Growth Practice, focuses on private capital, finance, and other corporate transactions, primarily in the healthcare, life sciences, and technology fields. Haim is a member of the firm’s Strategic Client Committee and Private Capital Practice.
Haim frequently represents borrowers/issuers, sponsors, and financial institutions in private capital transactions, including:
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- Technology growth financings (venture, structured, ABL, ARR, CARR/bookings, milestone-based, Up C, SPAC-related, and other structures)
- Direct lending transactions (private equity acquisition financings, cash-flow, ARR, CARR, liquidity, and other structures)
- Life sciences intellectual property monetization transactions (IP-backed debt, royalty buyout, synthetic royalty, revenue participations, R&D financings)
- Leasing, crypto/bitcoin, securitization, and other similar asset-based transactions
- Structured equity, pre-IPO debt and equity financings, and similar private capital transactions
Haim holds leadership positions with the Chinese American International School and the American Jewish Committee.
Haim has also been featured on CNBC, The Information, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, CFO Magazine, The Recorder, Law360.com, The Daily Journal, the International Financial Law Review, and VCExperts.com for his debt experience.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
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 advises emerging companies across their entire lifecycle and is particularly reputed for guiding clients through exit strategies including IPOs, de-SPACs, and M&A. The emerging companies and growth practice is helmed by Benjamin Potter, Brian Patterson, and Haim Zaltzman from Silicon Valley. Potter focuses on sectors including emerging tech, fintech, life sciences, and healthcare, and Patterson, who joined the firm in February 2023 from Gunderson Dettmer LLP, advises emerging growth companies on formation, deal structuring, and financing issues. Stephen Ranere in Boston specializes in early-stage company formations, venture capital financings, and exit strategies, while Alex Voxman in Los Angeles works with a wide variety of high-growth tech companies. John Chory retired from partnership in December 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Government > Government contracts
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism