Biography
Yan Li is an associate in Weil’s Banking & Finance practice and is based in New York. Yan participates in advising borrowers, private equity sponsors, banks and other financial institutions in a variety of financing transactions, including first and second lien credit facilities, middle market and large cap financings, cross-border and domestic acquisition financings and debt restructuring transactions.
Yan has been part of the teams advising:
- The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. in a $2.5 billion senior unsecured multicurrency revolving credit facility to replace, and increase commitments under, its existing facility
- PAI Partners in $605 million term and revolving facilities to finance its acquisition of HKA Global Inc. from Bridgepoint Development Capital
- Subsidiaries of Steward Health Care System LLC, as borrowers, under a bridge loan facility
- Sunlight Financial Holdings Inc. in its $100 million senior secured term loan facility for Sunlight Financial LLC
- WEX Inc. in its $500 million incremental senior secured revolving facility and its $1.4 billion incremental senior secured term and revolving facility
Yan joined Weil as a summer associate in 2020.
Yan received her J.D. from Cornell Law School, where she made the Dean’s List and served as an Editor of the Cornell International Law Journal, and her B.A., summa cum laude, from New York University Abu Dhabi. She is a native Mandarin speaker.