Chaliz Taghdis focuses her practice on finance, with a particular emphasis on the music, media and entertainment and affordable housing industries. She has broad experience representing financial institutions, issuers, borrowers, asset managers, investors, media and entertainment companies, music publishers and record companies in a variety of financing transactions, including asset-backed financings, warehouse and secured credit facilities, private placements and other structured transactions.
Her experience spans a range of asset classes, including music royalties and other intellectual property rights, film and television receivables, affordable housing cash flows, data center revenue streams and other esoteric assets. She also maintains an active pro bono practice.
Chord Music Partners, a leading global independent music rights platform managed by Dundee Partners in partnership with Universal Music Group, on its US$500 million securitization, secured by royalties from a catalog of more than 3,750 works from artists and songwriters including $uicideboy$, Morgan Wallen, Ryan Tedder, Diplo and Twenty One Pilots
Concord, a global leader in music publishing, recorded music and theatrical rights licensing, on its record-breaking US$1.8 billion music royalty-backed securitization and subsequent refinancing securitization transactions
A media company in connection with multiple secured credit facilities and refinancing transactions supporting the acquisition and monetization of intellectual property assets, including a US$1.0 billion senior secured credit facility
A media company in connection with a US$300 million subordinated financing facility secured by intellectual property assets
A music financing platform in connection with its US$200 million debt financing
A leading entertainment-focused asset manager on multiple music royalty-backed securitization issuances and warehouse credit facilities
An institutional investor group on a CAD $1.320 billion Canadian data center revenue securitization
Institutional investors on multiple private placement securitizations backed by U.S. data center revenue streams
An institutional investor group on a US $177 million private placement securitization backed by automobile warranty receivables
An institutional investor group on US$1.4 billion private placement securitization backed by home warranty receivables
The Issuer in the private placement of US$100 million ABS notes backed by solar assets
Institutional investors on multiple private placement affordable housing securitizations
Education
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles School of Law 2021
B.A., University of California, Berkeley 2017 Highest Distinction
