LOS ANGELES, March 25, 2024 – Proskauer, a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that partner Sandra Lee Montgomery has been named a 2024 Visionary by Los Angeles Times Banking & Finance: Trends, Updates, & Visionaries magazine. Sandra was recognized for her success across private credit, banking and finance over the last 24 months. This is the second year in a row she has been selected for the award.

A well-known and respected leader in the private capital sphere, Sandra is a recognized force in banking & finance, having closed over US$5.5 billion in transactions for first and second lien senior lenders, mezzanine investors and equity sponsors across the country in 2023 alone. In particular, Sandra has depth in complicated finance structures for alternative lenders. Her areas of focus include acquisitions, recapitalization and other leveraged financings, cash flow and asset-based financings, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, cross-border financings, unitranche and mezzanine financings and restructurings.

Sandra is a recognized leader both within Proskauer and in her professional and personal communities. She is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, the Women Partners Advisory Committee and she was co-Chair of the Firm’s New Business Committee for the last four years. She is an active partner in the firm’s Asian Lawyer Affinity group and is a mentor in the Firm’s Diverse Lawyer Mentoring Circle Program.

Those selected for inclusion in the Los Angeles Times Banking & Finance: Trends, Updates, & Visionaries magazine were selected by the Los Angeles Times’ B2B executive committee based on their successes and accomplishments over the past two years as well as exemplary leadership within their organizations and communities across California.

Read more about Sandra here: 2024 Banking and Finance Visionaries.

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The Firm’s Private Credit Group is made up of cross-disciplinary finance and restructuring experts exclusively dedicated to private credit investors. It includes over 110 finance and restructuring lawyers focused on representing credit funds, business development companies, and other direct lending funds in the restructuring of “clubbed” and syndicated credits, preferred equity, special situations and alternative investments. Over the past five years, Proskauer has been involved in over 1,200 deals for more than 100 private credit clients across the U.S. and Europe with an aggregate transaction value exceeding $350 billion.