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Sina R. Hekmat

Partner
New York
Frankfurt

Sina R. Hekmat
Email
sina.hekmat@hoganlovells.com
Phone
+1 212 918 8264 (New York)
+49 69 962 36 264 (Frankfurt)
Fax
+1 212 918 3100 (New York)
+49 69 962 36 100 (Frankfurt)
Languages
English, French, German, Farsi

Sina Hekmat has nearly 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.

His ability to converse in multiple languages benefits Sina's 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 Directive-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.

Practices

Industries

"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

Areas of Focus

Representative Experience

Underwriters' counsel in connection with 25 U.S. registered public offerings of over US$30bn in debt securities by two European sovereign issuers.

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.

Education and admissions

Education

  • J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School, 1993
  • M.B.A., Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management, 1993
  • B.A., cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989

Bar admissions and qualifications

  • New York
  • England and Wales
  • District of Columbia
  • California
  • Texas
  • Frankfurt (as foreign attorney)

2014

Germany, Corporate/M&A

Chambers Global

2014

USA, Corporate/M&A

Chambers Global

2014

USA, Capital Markets: Debt & Equity

Chambers Global

2013

Capital Markets: Debt Offerings

Legal 500 US

2014

Equity Capital Markets

Legal 500 Deutschland

Latest thinking and events

Published Works

Aktuelle Entwicklungen bei High-Yield Bonds (Recent Developments in High-Yield Bonds)

Die Aktiengesellschaft, Heft 12/2011, S. 429-468
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