Prewitt, Elizabeth

Sony Ben-Moshe

Partner

    Ben-Moshe, Sony

    Sony Ben-Moshe

    Partner

    sony.ben-moshe@lw.com
    Mr. Ben-Moshe is “highly recommended by clients who say ‘he offers commercial, sound solutions, and he's very good at the real estate part of the work’.”

    Chambers USA 2012

    Profile

    Sony Ben-Moshe is partner in our Finance Department and Co-Chair of the firm's Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Industry Group, and former Co-Chair of the Latin America Practice. Sony has significant experience representing clients in financings, acquisitions, sale-leasebacks, and formation of joint ventures in the United States and abroad. His experience includes:

    • Structuring, documentation, and negotiation of banking and private credit finance transactions for leveraged and secured financing transactions, including LBOs
    • Representation of issuers and underwriters in connection with 144A offerings and private placements of debt instruments
    • Structuring and negotiation of various transactions involving private equity sponsors
    • Representation of various parties in connection with the formation of joint ventures
    • Development and financing of greenfield construction projects
    • Sale-leaseback transactions

    Sony has been recognized as a leading lawyer in:

    • Chambers USA for his work in Gaming & Hospitality
    • The Legal 500 Latin America for his work in Banking and Finance
    • The Legal 500 USA for his work in Real Estate and in Latin America
    • IFLR100 Energy and Infrastructure: Latin America
    • San Diego Daily Transcript as a Top Attorney for Real Estate & Construction
    • California Law Business, where he was previously named one of the Top 20 California lawyers under age 40

    Experience

    Sony's experience includes the representation of sponsors, lenders, and underwriters in connection with:

    • US$750 million senior secured financing for Fitness International LLC (aka, LA Fitness)
    • Eldorado Resorts Inc. in its US$27 billion acquisition and financing of Caesars Entertainment
    • Senior secured facilities for Apria Healthcare Group 
    • Senior secured faciltiies for Ingenovis Health Inc.
    • Portfolio acquisitions and financings for Lucky Strike Entertainment
    • US$8.7 billion in senior secured financing for Caesars Entertainment
    • Various senior secured facilities for Pinnacle Service Brands
    • Over US$3.0 billion senior secured financings and high yield offerings for Bally’s Corporation
    • Over US$2.5 billion senior secured financing and high yield offerings for Red Rock Resorts
    • Various senior secured credit facilities for Omnicell, Inc.
    • Various corporate credit facilities for Sempra Energy and its subsidiaries
    • Sempra Energy in connection with various acquisitions and depositions of renewable energy projects
    • Multi-billion construction financing and various refinancings for Resorts World Las Vegas
    • US$120 million senior secured acquisition financing for AZZ, Inc.
    • Various sale leaseback transactions in the hospitality, gaming and entertainment industries 
    • Over US$4 billion in senior secured credit facilities and senior unsecured notes for Penn Entertainment
    • Various note offerings for Hudson Pacific Properties in excess of US$500 million
    • Senior secured credit facilities and note offerings for Store Capital Corporation
    • American Assets Trust in connection with its corporate credit facilities
    • US$433 million in senior secured facilities for the Cowlitz Development Authority
    • Various senior secured and high yield financings for Boyd Gaming Corporation
    • Sempra Energy in connection with the development of a wind farm in Baja California, Mexico
    • Sempra Energy in connection with the development and construction of liquefied natural gas projects in the United States and Mexico
    • Major oil and gas companies in connection with various crude oil projects in Latin America
    • US$500 million senior secured credit facility for Pasha Shipping company
    • US$1.5 billion senior secured financing and unsecured notes for Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority
    • US$1.05 billion senior secured financing for Jack Entertainment
    • US$450 million in senior secured facilities for Greenwood Racing, Inc.

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • California

    Education

    • JD, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 1994
      Order of the Coif
    • BBA, University of San Diego, 1990
      summa cum laude

    Languages Spoken

    • English
    • Hebrew
    • Spanish

    Practices

    Industries