ALENA THOMAS focuses her practice on leveraged finance transactions, representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, public and private companies, and lenders. She has extensive experience across acquisition financings, cross-border transactions, debt restructurings, and complex liability management over a range of industries and financing structures, including first-lien, second-lien, unitranche, asset-based, recurring-revenue, back-leverage, and high-yield.
Prior to joining Sidley, Alena worked as a finance associate and served on the Associates Committee at other top-tier international law firms, and founded and built the first SaaS-based contract management system for companies with complex debt documents.