Sony Ben-Moshe is Co-Chair of the firm's Gaming and Hospitality Practice and a member of the Finance Department of the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins. Mr. Ben-Moshe has significant experience representing clients in financings, acquisitions, and formation of joint ventures in the United States and abroad, including in Latin America. His experience includes:
- The structuring, documentation, and negotiation of financing arrangements for leveraged and secured financing transactions, including LBOs
- Representation of issuers and underwriters in connection with 144A offerings and private placements of debt instruments
- Representation of various parties in connection with the formation of joint ventures
- Development and financing of greenfield construction projects
Mr. Ben-Moshe 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 previously named him one of the Top 20 California lawyers under age 40
Mr. Ben-Moshe's experience includes the representations of issuers and underwriters in connection with:
- US$5.5 billion in senior secured financing in connection with the spin-off of MGM Growth Properties from MGM Resorts International
- US$540 million in senior secured facilities for US Ecology, Inc.
- US$2.4 billion in senior secured financing for Red Rock Resorts
- US$400 million senior secured credit facilities for Omnicell, Inc., in connection with its acquisition of Aesynt Holdings
- Over US$5 billion in corporate credit facilities for Sempra Energy and its subsidiaries
- Sempra Energy in connection with various acquisitions of renewable energy projects
- US$550 million acquisition financing provided to Otter Products, LLC in its acquisition of LifeProof
- Over US$4 billion in senior secured credit facilities and senior unsecured notes for Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. and Penn National Gaming, Inc., in connection with the Opco-Propco separation of these companies
- 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
- US$885 million in senior secured facilities and US$300 million in senior unsecured notes for Pinnacle Entertainment
- US$850 million construction financing and $450 million in senior secured refinancing credit facilities for the Graton Economic Development Authority
- Sempra Energy in connection with the development of a wind farm in Baja California, Mexico
- US$1.3 billion senior secured facilities provided to Bally Technologies, Inc.
- Sempra Energy in connection with the development and construction of liquefied natural 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 and unsecured notes offering for Seneca Gaming Corporation
- 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
- Over US$3 billion in senior secured facilities and notes for Wynn Las Vegas and Wynn Macau
- US$450 million in senior secured facilities for Greenwood Racing, Inc.