Loyti Cheng
Head of Environmental practice. Extensive experience advising clients on the environmental aspects of financings, M&A and other transactions.
Loyti is head of our Environmental practice and has advised clients for over three decades on a wide range of environmental matters. She has a particular focus on environmental issues arising in the context of corporate transactions, including disclosure obligations and climate change matters. In addition, Loyti provides advice with respect to sustainability matters, in particular with respect to ESG-linked financings and green bond issuances.
Loyti has represented U.S. and international companies, financial institutions, private equity firms and other entities in transactions including debt and equity offerings, acquisition financings, bank lending transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.
Among other accolades, Loyti is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers USA, where sources describe her as “responsive, thoughtful and skillful” and having “a phenomenal understanding of environmental risk.” She is a member of the steering committee of the Environmental Law Institute Leadership Council.
Experience highlights
Recent Representations
- Las Vegas Sands $1.5 billion revolving credit facility
- Hilton $1 billion senior notes offering
- Motorola Solutions $1.3 billion notes offering
- Hormel Foods $500 million notes offering
- LYB International Finance III $750 million guaranteed bond offering
- REV Group $289.9 million secondary offering
- Eastman Chemical $750 million notes offering
- Eli Lilly $6.5 billion notes offering
- Smith Douglas Homes $186 million IPO
- Constellation Brands $400 million senior notes offering
- Home Depot $2 billion notes offering
- Sealed Air $425 million senior notes offering and concurrent tender offer
- J.M. Smucker $3.5 billion notes offering
- Bain Capital financing for Harrington Industrial Plastics acquisition
- J. M. Smucker $800 million term loan facility
- Coty €500 million senior secured notes offering
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Credentials
Recognition
Chambers USA – Environment: Mainly Transactional, New York, Band 1
Legal 500 U.S. – Environment: Transactional, Hall of Fame
Who’s Who Legal – Environment, Thought Leader
Best Lawyers – “Lawyer of the Year: Environmental Law,” 2020
Best Lawyers – Environmental Law, New York
Euromoney LMG Americas Women in Business Law Awards – “Best in Environment,” 2018
Education
- Executive Research Editor, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics
- cum laude
- Phi Beta Kappa
Professional history
- Counsel, 1996-present
- Davis Polk since 1986
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York