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Hogan Lovells advises on three Brazilian IPO closings in two weeks
15 February 2021
Email sina.hekmat@hoganlovells.com
Phone +1 212 918 8264 (New York) +49 69 962 36 202 (Frankfurt)
Fax +1 212 918 3100 (New York) +49 69 962 36 100 (Frankfurt)
LanguagesEnglish, Farsi, French, German
Practice groupCorporate & Finance
"Sina Hekmat of Hogan Lovells US LLP advises issuers and underwriters on a variety of cross-border transactions involving the USA and Europe. He has particular knowledge of matters involving Germany."
Chambers Global 2015
Sina Hekmat has over a quarter century of experience advising clients on cross-border transactions. His particular focus includes sophisticated corporate, securities, and business transactions, with an emphasis on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.
Sina's ability to converse in multiple languages benefits his international clientele. He represents underwriters, issuers, and shareholders in U.S., European, and global public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities, specifically in the automotive, telecommunications, software, energy, and financial services industries. He also advises issuers and underwriters in U.S.-registered and European Prospectus Regulation-approved sovereign, investment grade, and high-yield debt offerings, and represents clients in transactions involving asset-backed securities, derivatives, and other structured finance products.
Sina also advises strategic and financial acquirers as well as sellers and target companies in a number of U.S., European, and global mergers and acquisitions. His experience includes 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 represents multinational corporations in connection with cross-border joint ventures, and advises various investment firms with acquisitions and dispositions of distressed assets and non-performing loans, real estate portfolios, and portfolio companies.
Since 2016, Sina has been a lecturer at the postgraduate program Executive Master of European and International Business Law (E.M.B.L.-HSG) at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.
Finance: Capital Markets: Debt, Recommended
Legal 500 US
Capital Markets: Debt Capital Markets
Legal 500 EMEA
Germany, Corporate/M&A
Chambers Global
USA, Corporate/M&A
Chambers Global
USA, Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Chambers Global
Capital Markets: Debt Offerings
Legal 500 US
Equity Capital Markets
Legal 500 Deutschland
Education
J.D., Vanderbilt Law School, 1993
M.B.A., Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management, 1993
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, cum laude, 1989
Bar admissions and qualifications
New York
Solicitor, England and Wales
Frankfurt (as European attorney)
District of Columbia
California
Texas
Underwriters' counsel in more than 200 European and U.S. public offerings and private placements of over US$60bn in debt securities by a German issuer.
Managers' counsel in over 175 European and U.S. public offerings and private placements of over US$50bn in debt securities by a German issuer.
Issuer's counsel in €500m high-yield debt offering by a U.S. automotive finance company under its Euro Medium Term Note program.
Issuer's counsel in connection with initial public offering of an Eastern European natural gas company.
Issuer's counsel in connection with multiple Rule 144A debt offerings by a Latin American oil company.
Counsel to bidder in issuance of tender offer for approximately US$250m in debt securities of a Latin American natural resources company.
Counsel to a Latin American company in the purchase of an electric energy transmission services business from a U.S. publicly traded company.
Counsel to a U.S. publicly traded software company in the cross-border sale of a business unit.
Counsel to a global investment firm in connection with multiple debt and equity investments in a number of Latin American financial institutions.
Counsel to a conglomerate of investment firms in connection with financing of a Latin American infrastructure project in the form of debt and equity securities.
Counsel to a U.S. private equity firm in connection with the financing of a Latin American aviation company.
Counsel to selling shareholders in connection with an IPO by a Latin American logistics company.
Counsel to selling shareholders in connection with a follow-on equity offering by a Latin American financial institution.
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