Partner
John Slater advises market-leading public and private companies on the full spectrum of complex corporate finance and capital markets transactions, with a special focus in the retail and technology sectors.
John leverages a commercial mindset and comprehensive understanding of the debt and equity capital markets to advise clients on:
Beyond his transactional work, John helps clients navigate day-to-day life as a public company or a company in the process of going public. John collaborates across Latham’s multidisciplinary platform to connect companies with the internal and external resources they need to achieve their business goals.
As a native Spanish-speaker, John also provides both commercial and cultural fluency to clients in matters with a Latin America nexus, including companies pursuing dual listings on local markets and the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq, as well as private securities offerings to US investors.
John's experience includes representing:
Firm honored by Law360 for advising startups, financial institutions, VCs, digital asset and Web3 participants, and corporations on their most innovative and complex transactions, investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters.
Firm honored for steering record-breaking and innovative transactions and general excellence.
Chambers USA recognized the firm as a “powerhouse in the capital markets space.”