LEILA SAYEGH
Partner
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
As a newly named partner in Skadden’s Los Angeles office, Leila Sayegh leads innovative financing transactions that are critical to a company’s survival, enabling game-changing acquisitions and recapitalizations and facilitating their available credit. She has advised clients in multiple industries on financings for multiple billion-dollar deals, multi-currency cross-border senior secured credit facilities and complex restructuring financings, among others. The more complicated the financing need, the more frequently she is called on.
Among Sayegh’s significant transactions has been her work representing Convera. Sayegh led the financing for the acquisition of Western Union Business Solutions by Goldfinch Partners and The Baupost Group for $910 million in an intense effort navigating tax, regulatory and multiple international jurisdictional issues. Also, for Dole Plc, Sayegh led the $1.44 billion financing in connection with the merger of Total Produce PLC and Dole Food Company, Inc. and the initial public offering of the combined company.
