Lee Saladino

Lee Saladino is counsel in Homburger's Capital Markets and Financing and Investment Products teams. She specializes in capital markets transactions, with a focus on cross-border securities offerings. A significant component of her practice involves advising Swiss banks in connection with the structuring and documentation of their regulatory capital instruments.
 
Prior to joining Homburger, she was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (New York).

• Advised UBS Group AG on the structuring and documentation of its inaugural AT1 capital notes with an equity-conversion feature (November 2023), which constituted UBS Group AG's first ever issuance of regulatory capital instruments with an equity conversion feature and its first issuance of AT1 capital instruments since its acquisition of the Credit Suisse group in March 2023;
• Advised the former Credit Suisse Group AG on the structuring and documentation of all its AT1 write-down instruments and bail-inable (TLAC) bonds, as well as in connection with its other treasury capital markets activity, such as the share capital increases of CHF 4 billion (2022) and the issuance of two series of mandatory convertible notes (2021);
• Advised UBS Group AG on the structuring and documentation of all its bail-inable (TLAC) bonds and AT1 write-down instruments (from 2015 to present), as well as in connection with its other treasury capital markets activity, including UBS Group AG's assumption of Credit Suisse Group AG debt in connection with UBS Group AG's acquisition of the Credit Suisse group in March 2023;
• Advised Nestlé in its 144A/Reg S senior notes offerings, including its USD 1.5 billion senior notes offering in September 2023, its USD 3 billion senior notes offering in March 2023, and its USD 4 billion senior notes offering in 2022;
• Advised Roche in its 144A/Reg S senior notes offerings, including its USD 5.5 billion senior note offering in 2023 and its USD 5 billion senior note offering in 2022; and
• Supported the National Working Group for Reference Rates in Swiss Francs in the development of preferred interest rate provisions for SARON floating rate notes, including sample fallback language (2019).

• Banking

• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Equity
• Financial services regulatory

• Banking

• Financial services
• Food and beverage
• Pharma and life sciences

• New York Bar admission (2005)
• J.D., University of Chicago Law School (2004)
• B.A., Columbia College, Columbia University (1997)