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Sina
R.
Hekmat
Partner, New York, Frankfurt
sina.hekmat@hoganlovells.com
Sina Hekmat is a partner in Hogan Lovells' New York and Frankfurt offices. He has extensive experience advising clients on a wide variety of sophisticated corporate, securities, and business transactions, with a particular emphasis on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, involving both U.S. and cross-border transactions.
Sina has represented issuers, shareholders, and underwriters in U.S., European, and global public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities. He has advised a number of issuers in the telecommunications, software, energy, and financial services industries in connection with initial, follow-on, and secondary offerings of equity securities. He has also advised numerous issuers and underwriters in connection with U.S. registered as well as European Prospectus Directive approved sovereign, investment grade and high-yield debt offerings. Sina has represented numerous clients in connection with transactions involving asset backed securities, derivatives and other structured finance products.
Sina has advised strategic and financial acquirers as well as sellers and target companies in a number of U.S., European, and global mergers and acquisitions, including tender offers, exchange offers, and hostile takeovers of publicly traded companies, as well as acquisitions (including management and/or leveraged buyouts) and dispositions (including auction sale) of business units and divisions. He has advised executives and boards of directors of publicly traded companies in connection with fiduciary duty, executive compensation, and other public company concerns. He has advised multinational corporations in connection with cross-border joint ventures. He has also advised various investment firms in connection with acquisitions and dispositions of distressed assets and non-performing loans, real estate portfolios, and portfolio companies.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Representation of underwriters in connection with over a dozen U.S. registered public offerings of more than $15 billion in global debt securities by a sovereign issuer with listings on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the SWX Swiss Exchange.
- Representation of underwriters in connection with over 125 public offerings and private placements of more than $40 billion in investment grade debt securities under a €60 billion Euro Medium Term Note Program approved under the European Prospectus Directive involving 20 currencies, over 50 jurisdictions and listings on the London, Luxembourg, and Frankfurt stock exchanges.
- Representation of a European issuer in connection with its $20 billion U.S. asset-backed commercial paper program.
- Representation of a U.S. manufacturing company in connection with its U.S. registered, and European Prospectus Directive approved, initial public offering and listing on the New York Stock Exchange of over 21 million shares of common stock.
- Representation of a real estate investment firm in connection with the recapitalization of a $450 million real estate portfolio.
- Representation of a European private equity consortium in connection with the acquisition of a global chemical business unit of a U.S. publicly traded company.
- Representation of a financial institution in connection with the issuance and sale of $365 million in asset-backed securities.
- Representation of a Brazilian publicly traded company in connection with the acquisition of an electric energy transmission services business from a U.S. publicly traded company.
- Representation of a hedge fund in connection with the purchase of non-performing corporate loans.
- Representation of a consortium of financial investors in connection with the acquisition of €400 million in non-performing and sub-performing corporate and real estate loans from a state-owned bank in connection with an auction sale.
- Representation of an Austrian publicly traded conglomerate in connection with the acquisition by tender offer of a U.S. publicly traded company in the heavy industries.
- Representation of a U.S. publicly traded electronics company in connection with the acquisition by tender offer followed by the squeeze-out of minority shareholders of a German publicly traded software company.
- Representation of a German publicly traded investment firm in connection with the acquisition by plan of arrangement of a Canadian publicly traded investment firm.
Hogan Lovells Publications
October 2010
"Dodd-Frank Act of 2010: Principal Effects on Non-U.S. Companies.", Hogan Lovells
01 July 2010
"German Rules on Naked Short Selling: Current Regulations and Pending Legislation." Capital Markets Newsletter, Hogan Lovells
Published Works
June 2011
"Aktuelle Entwicklungen bei High-Yield Bonds (Recent Developments in High-Yield Bonds)." Die Aktiengesellschaft, Heft 12/2011, S. 429-468, (co-authored with Michael Schlitt and Roman A. Kasten)
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