Seth Gottlieb, Global Vice Chair of the Technology Industry Group, represents private and public companies, entrepreneurs, and venture capital investors in a broad range of corporate transactions.

Seth counsels high-growth companies throughout their life cycle, guiding them from their first financing as a startup through IPO and beyond. He advises clients on corporate governance, financing, securities, and M&A transactions in multiple cutting-edge sectors, including:

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cybersecurity
  • Consumer products
  • Digital health
  • Medical device
  • Biotechnology
  • Fintech

A trusted advisor to boards and management teams with deep corporate and securities law experience, he helps companies navigate their most significant business and legal matters. Seth also advises venture capital and growth-focused private equity firms on their strategic investments, and he works closely with investment banks to facilitate their underwriting of public offerings.

Seth is an adjunct professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law, where he teaches on venture capital and corporate governance.

Before joining Latham, he was co-chair of the emerging companies and venture capital practice at another global law firm. 

Seth has advised on hundreds of private financings and M&A transactions, as well as IPOs and follow-on offerings, including for high-profile companies:

Software, Cybersecurity & Enterprise Technology

  • Cashew Systems
  • CVT
  • Dayforce
  • Fastly
  • Flower Ave
  • Persona Identities
  • Pico MES
  • Pure Storage*
  • Rox Data Corporation
  • ServiceNow*
  • Snap
  • Snowflake*
  • Snyk
  • Symphony AI
  • Vir Reality Labs
  • W00W00
  • YeshID
  • Zinier

Artificial Intelligence

  • Cartesia AI
  • Cognition AI
  • HeyGen Technology
  • IngredientAI
  • Long Lake Management
  • Mellis
  • Neo4j
  • Supermaven
  • Together Computer
  • Weka.IO

Consumer Products

  • Cometeer
  • Control4*
  • Fantagic Holdings
  • Meow Wolf
  • Roku*

Digital Health, Medical Device, and Biotechnology

  • Codeable Therapeutics
  • Eight Sleep
  • Inventure Group
  • Latent
  • NeuroPace*
  • Pulmonx*
  • Wild Truth

Fintech

  • Ramp Business Corporation

Venture Capital and Private Equity

  • HF0 Fund
  • Lac Leman Groupe
  • Lightrock Climate Impact Fund
  • Next47
  • Nokia Growth Partners
  • Taubman Capital Management

*Client represented prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • California

Education

  • JD, Santa Clara University School of Law, 2007
    cum laude
  • BA, George Washington University, 2004