LOS ANGELES, February 19, 2026 – Proskauer is honored to share that partner Sandra Lee Montgomery has been named to Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2026 “Women of Influence: Finance” list, which recognizes stellar female advisors in the Los Angeles banking and finance space.
Sandra is co-chair of the Firm’s Corporate Department and a partner in the Private Credit & Leveraged Finance Group. She is a premier advisor to private credit institutions, with nearly three decades of experience leading high-value transactions that have shaped today’s financial markets. Sandra is known as a trailblazer across the private capital and finance landscape. Her practice encompasses the full spectrum of financing transactions, including acquisitions, recapitalizations, leveraged finance, cash-flow and asset-based facilities, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, cross-border deals, unitranche and mezzanine structures and restructurings.
Sandra’s exceptional skill and impact have earned her repeated recognition. Most recently, she was included in Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Leaders of Influence: Minority Attorneys” list, and has been named a “Banking & Finance Visionary” by the Los Angeles Times since 2023.
Read more in Los Angeles Business Journal: Women of Influence: Finance
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The Firm’s Private Credit Group is made up of cross-disciplinary finance and restructuring experts exclusively dedicated to private credit investors. It includes over 110 finance and restructuring lawyers focused on representing credit funds, business development companies, and other direct lending funds in the restructuring of “clubbed” and syndicated credits, preferred equity, special situations and alternative investments. Over the past five years, Proskauer has been involved in over 1,600 deals for more than 100 private credit clients across the U.S. and Europe with an aggregate transaction value exceeding $420 billion.