Sina R. Hekmat

Sina Hekmat advises clients on complex capital markets and M&A transactions that cross borders and industries. He works with underwriters, issuers, investors, strategic buyers, and financial sponsors on matters across the United States, Europe, and other global markets. Clients across the energy and infrastructure, financial services, technology, and transportation industries turn to Sina for matters requiring sophisticated cross-border coordination.

Sina’s capital markets practice spans public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities, including sovereign, investment-grade, and high-yield debt. He also advises on asset-backed securities, derivatives, and other structured finance products.

In M&A, Sina represents acquirers, sellers, and target companies in leveraged buyouts, tender and exchange offers, hostile takeovers, and cross-border joint ventures. His private equity and private capital experience includes advising financial sponsors and other investors on leveraged buyouts and acquisitions and dispositions involving portfolio companies, distressed assets, and other complex investments. He also counsels investment firms on acquisitions and dispositions involving portfolio companies, distressed assets, and other complex investments.

Sina has served as a lecturer in the University of St. Gallen’s Executive Master of European and International Business Law program.

• Counsel to a global private equity firm in connection with various structured finance transactions in the United States, Europe and Latin America*
• Managers’ counsel in over 400 European and US public offerings and private placements of over $140B in debt securities by a German issuer*
• Issuer’s counsel in multiple SEC registered debt offerings by a European sovereign issuer*
• Issuer’s counsel in €500m high-yield debt offering by a US automotive finance company under its Euro Medium Term Note program*
• Issuer’s counsel to an Eastern European natural gas company in connection with its initial public offering, and the establishment of and issuance under its Euro Medium Term Note Programme*
• 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 $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 US publicly traded company*
• Counsel to a US 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 US 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*

*Matter handled prior to joining the firm

• Chambers Global, Expertise Based Abroad: Capital Markets, 2025; Corporate/M&A (USA), 2014; Corporate/M&A (Germany), 2014 Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (USA), 2014
• Legal 500 US, Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings, Recommended, 2021-2024; Finance: Capital Markets: Global Offerings, Recommended, 2021-2024; Finance: Capital Markets: Debt Offerings, Recommended, 2013, 2020, 2022-2023
• Legal 500 EMEA, Capital Markets: Debt Capital Markets, 2018-2019
• Legal 500 Deutschland, Equity Capital Markets, 2014