Jeremy Waitzman

Practice Areas

Jeremy calls on years of corporate legal experience to help his clients achieve their No. 1 goal: seeing their businesses thrive. He advises on a wide range of matters, from day-to-day operational issues to significant transactions.

Described by clients as “an essential advisor” and “a partner in the success of my business,” Jeremy represents businesses of all types and sizes. He is a trusted counselor throughout a company’s lifecycle, from inception to major growth phases and often through ownership’s exit. His clients include privately held middle-market and emerging growth companies, family offices and funds, investors, C-level executives, boards of directors, family-owned businesses, and entrepreneurs.

Having trained as an M&A attorney at a large firm, Jeremy brings transactions-intensive experience that spans several areas of corporate law. His practice includes business and capital structure matters, mergers and acquisitions, private placements and securities offerings, corporate governance, and the full range of contracts and agreements.

Jeremy's years of experience in the areas of corporate law, corporate finance, and working for and with private equity as a counterparty, serve as a backdrop for his commercial litigation funding practice. Leveraging his position as a trusted legal advisor to provide borrowers and funders with key insights into the evolving landscape of litigation finance, clients rely on Jeremy’s experience to navigate and negotiate complex contractual issues as they seek or provide financing for litigation matters. His commercial litigation funding work centers around guiding clients through transaction structure issues and deal terms, document preparation and negotiation, post-closing compliance, and dispute resolution.

With an intimate knowledge of best practices beyond the legal and ethical considerations in litigation financing, Jeremy is adept at aligning investor’s interests with the needs of the claimant to balance the need to protect his client with the desire to deploy capital, allowing cases to move forward with the expectation of a successful outcome and capital return for the investor.

Jeremy also advises on private equity and venture capital matters, venture and angel financing, investor rights and preferences, and strategies for the creation of enterprise value.

Industry sector experience includes software, health care, specialty chemicals, mobile, information technology, ecommerce, transportation, insurance, marketing and public relations, construction, specialty consumer, real estate, manufacturing, distribution, and tech-enabled services.

Professional Memberships

-American Bar Association

-Illinois State Bar Association

-Chicago Bar Association

-ProVisors

Education