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 close to four decades on a wide range of environmental and sustainability matters. She has a particular focus on environmental issues arising in the context of corporate transactions, including environmental and ESG disclosure obligations and climate-related matters.
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
Recent Work
- Hilton $1 billion senior notes offering
- Automatic Data Processing $1 billion notes offering
- IDEX $500 million notes offering
- Eli Lilly $5 billion notes offering
- Southwest Gas Holdings $340 million at-the-market offering
- Eastman Chemical $500 million notes offering and concurrent cash tender offer
- Plug Power $200 million stock offering
- Sealed Air $400 million senior notes offering and concurrent tender offer
- Home Depot $10 billion notes offering
- Trane Technologies $500 million senior notes offering
- Granite $373.75 million convertible senior notes and capped call transactions
- Velocity Vehicle Group $500 million senior notes offering
- Coty €500 million senior secured notes offering
- Las Vegas Sands $1.5 billion revolving credit facility
- Hilton $1 billion senior notes offering
- Motorola Solutions $1.3 billion notes offering
Insights
News
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
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York