Overview
Sasha Belinkie is a partner in Paul Hastings’ Executive Compensation, Employee Benefits & ERISA practice in the firm’s New York office. Sasha helps clients navigate the most urgent issues they encounter, solving problems that are often deeply personal in the midst of complex and fast-paced corporate events. Sasha advises companies, boards of directors and senior executives on executive compensation and employee benefits issues that arise in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spinoffs and other major corporate transactions, serving as a central resource across the deal life cycle. Her work also includes guiding companies on governance considerations, securities law compliance and compensation related disclosures, as well as counseling clients on employment, severance, retention, incentive and equity based arrangements.
Sasha is ranked in Legal 500 US for Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional. Clients say, “Sasha Belinkie demonstrate[s] an extraordinary work ethic and an exceptional command of detail and execution. She maintain[s] real-time awareness of status, dependencies, and outstanding items, ensuring precise coordination and follow-through at every stage. It is rare to encounter someone who pairs this level of operational rigor and task management with equally strong judgment and interpersonal effectiveness.”
Sasha received her J.D. from Cornell Law School, graduating cum laude. During her time at Cornell, she held editorial roles with both the Cornell Law Review and the Moot Court Board, and was honored as a Pro Bono Scholar, Furman Scholar, Celeste Mercer Scholar and Charles Evans Hughes Fellow. She completed her undergraduate studies at The George Washington University, also cum laude. Before attending law school, she taught science in Miami as part of Teach for America.
She co-chairs the New York City Bar Association’s Subcommittee on Executive Compensation and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation and contributes to several nonprofit and professional organizations. Her board service includes the Ethical Shareholder Initiative, Latino Justice PRLDEF and the executive board of Cornell Law School’s Latino Lawyers of Cornell Alumni Association.
Accolades
- Key Lawyer, Legal 500 US for Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- Rising Star, Super Lawyers
- On the Rise - Top 40 Young Lawyers Award, American Bar Association
- Fellow of the Council of Urban Professionals NY
Education
- Cornell Law School, JD (cum laude), 2015 (Editor, Cornell Law Review)
- George Washington University, BA (cum laude), 2010
Representations
Healthcare & Life Sciences M&A
- Amedisys on its sale to UnitedHealth Group-backed Optum for $3.3 billion
- BD on its spinoff of Embecta
- GSK on its all-cash acquisition of BELLUS Health for approximately $2 billion
- Hologic on its $1.65 billion acquisition of Cynosure and subsequent $205 million sale of Cynosure to CD&R
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals on its acquisition of GW Pharmaceuticals for $7.2 billion
- Masimo Corporation on its $9.9 billion acquisition by Danaher
- Pfizer on its $11.4 billion acquisition of Array BioPharma
- Regnology on its acquisition of Moody’s regulatory reporting & ALM solutions business
- SOFIE Biosciences on connection with Trilantic’s investment
- Summit Partners on its investment in Dreampath Diagnostics
- Sun Pharma on its entry into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Organon for an enterprise value of $11.75 billion
- Varian Medical Systems on its $16.4 billion sale to Siemens Healthineers
Financial Services & Investment Management M&A
- Angelo Gordon's sale to TPG for $2.7 billion
- Apollo Global Management's affiliated funds on their $2 billion acquisition of West Corp and ongoing corporate matters for Intrado (formerly West Corp)
- Apollo Global Management's affiliated funds on their $6 billion acquisition of Tech Data
- Apollo Global Management's affiliated funds on their $7.1 billion acquisition of Tenneco
- CoinShares’ $1.2 billion initial U.S. listing
- CompoSecure's spinoff of Resolute Holdings Management
- Nomura Holdings America on its $1.8 billion acquisition of Macquarie's U.S. and European public asset management business
PrivateBancorp on its $5 billion acquisition by CIBC - TD Ameritrade's Strategic Development Committee on the $26 billion merger of TD Ameritrade with Charles Schwab
Technology & Media M&A
- Adopt, a U.S.-based leading branding agency, on its sale to Publicis Groupe, S.A.
- Broadcom on its $18.9 billion acquisition of CA Technologies, $10.7 billion acquisition of the enterprise security business of Symantec, $950 million sale of Veracode to Thoma Bravo, divestiture of its Cyber Security Services business to Accenture and global preferred services partnership with HCL Technologies
- Digital Currency Group's sale of CoinDesk to Bullish
- Nielsen Holdings on its $16 billion sale to a private equity consortium led by Elliott and Brookfield
- Samsung Electronics in its acquisition of Xealth, a healthcare integration platform
- Samsung Electronics on its €1.5 billion acquisition of FläktGroup
- Shutterstock in connection with its acquisition by Getty Images
- Square on its $29 billion acquisition of Afterpay Limited
- T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom on the $146 billion combination of T-Mobile and Sprint
- Industrials & Manufacturing M&A
- Anadarko Petroleum on its $60 billion acquisition by Occidental Petroleum
- Anadarko Petroleum on its agreed $50 billion acquisition by Chevron, which Anadarko terminated in order to accept a superior proposal from Occidental Petroleum
- Analog Devices on its $21 billion acquisition of Maxim Integrated Products
- Apollo's acquisition of Everi and IGT's Gaming & Digital business in a $6.3 billion deal
- Arconic Corporation on its separation into two public companies
- Cove Kaz Capital Group on the acquisition of majority ownership in Tungsten Joint Venture in Kazakhstan
- Lakeshore Recycling Systems, a portfolio company of Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, on its acquisition of GHW Waste Services
- Medline on its $31 billion sale to a private equity consortium including Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman
- Toyota Tsusho Corporation on its landmark $1.34 billion acquisition of Radius Recycling
- XPO Logistics on its separation into two public companies
Consumer & Retail M&A
- Fertitta Entertainment on its agreement to acquire Caesars Entertainment for approximately $17.6 billion
- Special Committee of the Directors of International Speedway Corporation on its $2 billion acquisition by NASCAR
- Office Depot on its $1 billion acquisition of CompuCom Systems
- Penn National Gaming on multiple transactions, including its investment in Barstool Sports and its $575 million divestiture of four casinos to Boyd Gaming
- SUPERVALU on its $2.9 billion sale to United Natural Foods
- Sycamore Partners’ on its acquisition of Chico's FAS for $1 billion
Matters may have been completed prior to joining Paul Hastings