"Haim does an excellent job in support of our company. He is very user-friendly, is very commercial and has extensive industry and market knowledge."
Chambers USA 2022
"He is exceptionally sharp and has a deep understanding of corporate law."
Chambers USA 2021
Profile
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:
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)
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.
Experience
Haim's representative transactions include:
Hundreds of growth companies and their sponsors in every kind of financing
Multiple direct lenders and investors in the life sciences space, including venture, structured, royalty, and other IP-related financings
Various investors in late stage, growth capital, including pre-IPO converts, SPAC financings, redeemable and non-redeemable preferred, SPAC-related structures, and other secured and unsecured financings, to technology companies
Various private equity and venture capital firms in debt and equity financings of all types
Multiple technology and life sciences companies and sponsors in deSPAC transactions
Multiple lenders and companies in securitization-related transactions
Prior Professional Experience
Former Editor of the Stanford Journal of International Relations
Fulbright Scholar in Russia
Prior to Latham & Watkins, attorney in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Thought Leadership
Extending Your Reach: New Approaches to Values-Based Compliance and Contracting, January 5, 2023
Emerging Growth Debt, Venture Capital General Counsel Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, March 29-30, 2017
Financing Emerging Growth Companies with Debt, Webcast, May 4, 2017
The Healthcare & Technology Industries’ Burgeoning Emerging Growth Debt Market, March 13, 2015
When Venture Funding is Debt, Not Equity, June 22, 2011
After the Credit Crunch: Venture Credit Facilities at the Term Sheet Stage, June 20, 2011
Data Technology & Transactions Practice Vice Chair Ghaith Mahmood shortlisted for Innovator of the Year, and two firm initiatives earn recognition in ALM’s annual tech-focused awards program.
Multidisciplinary team represents leading private capital investor in debt restructuring, structured equity investment, corporate governance and other general corporate matters in connection with the transaction.
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