Biography
Sasha Belinkie is a partner in the Firm's Employment, Compensation and Benefits practice. Her practice focuses on the executive compensation and benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, divestitures and other corporate transactions. She also regularly advises companies on governance matters, securities laws and compensation disclosure, and assists companies and executives on employment, severance, retention, incentive, equity and other compensation arrangements.
Sasha received a J.D. degree, cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 2015. While in law school, she was an Articles Editor of the Cornell Law Review and a Bench Editor of the Moot Court Board. At Cornell, she was an inaugural Pro Bono Scholar, a Furman Scholar, a recipient of the Celeste Mercer scholarship and a Charles Evans Hughes fellow. She received an undergraduate degree, cum laude, from The George Washington University in 2010. From 2010 to 2012, Sasha taught science with Teach for America in Miami, Florida.
Sasha is Co-Chair of the New York City Bar Association Subcommittee on Executive Compensation and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation. She serves on the board of the Ethical Shareholder Initiative, the Líderes Board of Latino Justice PRLDEF and the executive board of Cornell Law School's Latino Lawyers of Cornell Alumni Association.
Experience
Healthcare & Life Sciences M&A
Amedisys' sale to UnitedHealth Group-backed Optum for $3.3 billion*
GSK in its all-cash acquisition of BELLUS Health for approximate total equity value of $2 billion*
Jazz Pharmaceuticals on its acquisition of GW Pharmaceuticals for $7.2 billion*
Varian Medical Systems in its $16.4 billion sale to Siemens Healthineers*
Pfizer in its $11.4 billion acquisition of Array BioPharma* Hologic in its $1.65 billion acquisition of Cynosure and subsequent $205 million sale of Cynosure to CD&R*
BD in its spinoff of Embecta Corp.*
SOFIE Biosciences in connection with Trilantic's investment*
Summit Partners on its investment in Dreampath Diagnostics
Financial Services & Investment Management M&A
Nomura Holdings America Inc. on its proposed US$1.8 billion acquisition of Macquarie's U.S. and European public asset management business Angelo Gordon's sale to TPG for $2.7 billion*
Apollo Global Management's affiliated funds in their $7.1 billion acquisition of Tenneco*
Apollo Global Management's affiliated funds in their $6 billion acquisition of Tech Data*
Apollo Global Management's affiliated funds in their $2 billion acquisition of West Corp and ongoing corporate matters for Intrado (formerly West Corp), now a portfolio company of Apollo*
TD Ameritrade's Strategic Development Committee in the $26 billion merger of TD Ameritrade with Charles Schwab*
PrivateBancorp in its $5 billion acquisition by CIBC*
CompoSecure's spin-off of Resolute Holdings Management*
Technology & Media M&A
Adopt, LLC, a US-based leading branding agency, in its sale to Publicis Groupe, S.A.
Samsung Electronics on its €1.5 billion acquisition of FläktGroup
Nielsen Holdings in its $16 billion sale to a private equity consortium led by Elliott and Brookfield* Square, Inc. in its $29 billion acquisition of Afterpay Limited*
Broadcom in its (1) $18.9 billion acquisition of CA Technologies, (2) $10.7 billion acquisition of the enterprise security business of Symantec, (3) $950 million sale of Veracode to Thoma Bravo, (4) divestiture of its Cyber Security Services business to Accenture, and (5) global preferred services partnership with HCL Technologies*
Digital Currency Group's sale of CoinDesk to Bullish*
T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom in the $146 billion combination of T-Mobile and Sprint*
Industrials & Manufacturing M&A
Toyota Tsusho Corporation on its landmark US$1.34 billion acquisition of Radius Recycling, Inc. (Nasdaq: RDUS)
Lakeshore Recycling Systems, a portfolio company of Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, on its acquisition of GHW Waste Services
Apollo's acquisition of Everi and IGT's Gaming & Digital business in a $6.3 billion deal*
Medline in its $31 billion sale to a private equity consortium including Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman*
Analog Devices in its $21 billion acquisition of Maxim Integrated Products*
Anadarko Petroleum in its $60 billion acquisition by Occidental Petroleum*
Anadarko Petroleum in its agreed $50 billion acquisition by Chevron, which Anadarko terminated in order to accept a superior proposal from Occidental Petroleum*
XPO Logistics in its separation into two public companies*
Arconic Corporation in its separation into two public companies*
Consumer & Retail M&A
Sycamore Partners' acquisition of Chico's FAS for $1 billion*
SUPERVALU Inc. in its $2.9 billion sale to United Natural Foods, Inc.*
Office Depot in its $1 billion acquisition of CompuCom Systems*
Penn National Gaming in multiple transactions, including its investment in Barstool Sports and its $575 million divestiture of four casinos to Boyd Gaming*
Special Committee of the Directors of International Speedway Corporation in its $2 billion acquisition by NASCAR*
*Matters prior to joining White & Case