Dara Panahy > Milbank > Los Angeles, United States > Lawyer Profile
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601 SOUTH FIGUEROA STREET
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LOS ANGELES, CA 90017
CALIFORNIA
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Dara Panahy

Work Department
Transportation and Space
Position
Partner; Leader of the firm’s Transportation and Space Group in Washington, DC; Heads the firm’s Space Business practice globally; Chair (and former leader) of the firm’s Global Risk & National Security practice
Career
Mr. Panahy has extensive experience representing clients in the satellite and space infrastructure, aerospace, defense, communications and data services industries. He has advised on a wide variety of financing and corporate transactions, including public offerings, high yield debt, investment grade bonds, project and vendor financings, equity investments, mergers & acquisitions, factoring, securitizations, financial restructurings and in negotiating project contracts, including numerous transactions that have won “Deal of the Year” awards.
He also counsels clients on domestic and international regulatory and cross-border investment matters, including licensing of space and terrestrial communications systems, economic sanctions, regulation of foreign direct investment, anti-bribery and corrupt practices, national security and export control laws and regulations and risk management.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense