Kenneth D. Askin is Regional Department Chair of Latham & Watkins’ Finance Department in California.

Kenneth represents corporate borrowers, banks, direct lenders, REITs, private equity sponsors, and other financial institutions, in a wide range of complex financing transactions, with a particular focus on the gaming and hospitality industries.

He has experience structuring, negotiating, and documenting various financial transactions, including secured, unsecured, and asset-based credit facilities, leveraged acquisition financings, construction financings, working capital financings, private placements, and cross-border financings.

Kenneth’s recent experience includes:

  • Aristocrat Leisure Limited’s senior secured credit facilities
  • Eldorado Resorts Inc. in connection with the financing of its US$17 billion acquisition of Caesars Entertainment Corporation and numerous subsequent secured credit facilities and secured bond offerings for Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
  • Lead arrangers in connection with the financing of Bally’s Corporation’s acquisition of Gamesys plc
  • Boyd Gaming in all of its secured credit facility financing transactions since 2019
  • Caesars Entertainment, Inc. in connection with its acquisition and financing of William Hill
  • Citizens Bank as lead arranger in several financings of private equity acquisitions and portfolio companies
  • Playtika Holding Corp. in connection with its senior secured credit facilities
  • Resorts World Las Vegas in its US$2.6 billion construction financing
  • Realty Income in its senior unsecured multicurrency revolving credit and term loan facilities and unsecured private placements
  • A leading single family home rental platform in its SFR warehouse financings
  • Santander and Citizens Bank as lead arrangers for the financing of the Catawba Nation’s Two Kings Casino
  • Red Rock Resorts in its senior secured credit facilities
  • Antares Capital in numerous acquisition financings for private equity sponsors
  • Extra Space Storage in its senior unsecured credit facilities and unsecured private placements
  • Sculptor Real Estate in acquisition financings, construction financings, and refinancings of gaming properties in California, New York, and Mississippi
  • New Regency Productions in its senior secured asset-based revolving production credit facility and library term loan facility 

Bar Qualification

  • California

Education

  • JD, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 2006
  • BA, Rice University, 2003