Jennifer St. John Yount

Practice Areas

Jennifer St. John Yount is the co-chair of the Paul Hastings Global Finance practice and is based in the firm’s New York office. While Ms. Yount has a strategic focus on private credit and specialty lenders in both cross-border and U.S.-focused transactions, Ms. Yount also represents a wide range of traditional and investment banks. Her work for both banks and nonbanks includes acquisition financings, cash-flow, asset-based lending, distressed credit, special situations, and restructurings. She represents clients in all parts of the capital structure – senior, junior, first lien, second lien, first out, last out, super-senior, and preferred equity.

Ms. Yount has industry expertise in a variety of business sectors, with a special focus on global software, technology and payment systems businesses, healthcare, retail, aircraft, automobiles, and in-transit inventory. Ms. Yount is a thought leader in the finance industry and speaks widely on the market challenges facing both traditional and nonbank lenders. She regularly participates on panels for prominent finance associations and is widely recognized in the market as a leading lawyer.