Dechert Welcomes Leveraged Finance Partner Soo-ah Nah in New York

Dechert LLP announced today that Soo-ah Nah has joined the firm’s global finance practice as a partner based in the New York office, focusing on leveraged finance.  

Ms. Nah’s practice focuses on leveraged financing and various other types of financing transactions, representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, other public and private companies across industries and institutional lenders.  Ms. Nah received a J.D. from Columbia School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Northwestern University.

Mark Thierfelder, chair of Dechert’s corporate and securities group and chair of the global private equity practice, commented: “Soo-ah’s diversified and extensive experience will complement our leveraged finance capabilities. In addition, her significant experience advising on a variety of private equity transactions will be a great asset to our many PE clients around the world.”

Ms. Nah commented: “I’m very excited to join Dechert’s outstanding PE and global finance teams and very much look forward to contributing to the continuing growth and success of those practices and the firm.”

Dechert’s responsive, interdisciplinary, and multi-jurisdictional global finance team addresses the complexities of modern finance transactions across categories and geographies. With more than 150 lawyers in the world’s major financial centers, Dechert’s internationally recognized global finance practice provides our clients with innovative deal structuring, creative financing strategies and efficient execution.

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