Ari Blaut is a partner in S&C’s Finance & Restructuring Group and is co-head of the Firm’s U.S. Credit & Leveraged Finance practice. Ari maintains a broad corporate practice advising clients on a wide range of financing, liability management and debt restructuring transactions. Public companies, private capital providers and creditors often turn to Ari for their most important and complex financing matters, ranging from many of the largest acquisition financings of all time to the most significant debt restructurings.
Ari is widely regarded for his work on the full scope of financing transactions and related debt restructurings and has received numerous recognitions and awards for his work. Ari is recognized by Chambers (Global and New York), with clients noting he is “fantastic,” “smart” and “commercial.”
In addition, Ari has received many of the most significant legal awards, including:
- Dealmaker of the Year – The American Lawyer
- Top Financing Lawyer in North America – MergerLinks
- Finance, Banking, & Capital Markets Trailblazer – National Law Journal
Ari lives on the Upper West Side in New York City with his wife, two daughters and labradoodle.