Hilary R. Sledge-Sarnor is a Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig's Los Angeles office. She represents businesses and financial institutions in a range of legal matters. Hilary has over 15 years of experience representing financial institutions, corporate borrowers, funds and fund sponsors in a broad range of syndicated cross-border and domestic financings. Hilary is experienced in a wide range of industries, including technology, fund finance retail and entertainment. She regularly provides counsel on secured transactions and UCC Article 9.
Hilary regularly counsels foreign and U.S. financial institutions, as well as their holding companies, on a wide range of financial regulatory, corporate governance and compliance matters. As the former executive counsel to the general counsel of MUFG Americas, she was instrumental in the negotiation of the definitive documentation and governance and regulatory aspects of the $8.0B sale of the assets of MUFG Union Bank, N.A. Hilary also served as the general counsel proxy supporting multiple bet-the-bank regulatory remediations to improve the effectiveness of MUFG America’s risk management practices.
Hilary served as the Chair of the Digital Assets Working Group within the MUFG Americas Legal Department.
Hilary is also the past Chair of the ABA’s Loan Documentation Subcommittee and frequently speaks at conferences relating to commercial finance, blockchain and digital assets matters and diversity, equity and inclusion.
