Sarah is a corporate finance lawyer with experience advising on domestic and cross-border, secured and unsecured, syndicated and bilateral financings, mainly acting for banks. She is particularly experienced in sponsor-driven leveraged and acquisition financing, and has experience in restructuring and workout situations.
Expertise
Sarah advises lenders and corporates on complex acquisition finance transactions, including high-profile leveraged buyouts and cross-border deals, with experience acting on both sponsor-backed and strategic acquisitions.
Experience
Acted for the banks on the senior facilities for CVC’s acquisition of the Ahsell Group.
Acted for the banks in KKR’s acquisition of Pages Jaunes Group, and subsequent amend and extend.
Acted for Vedanta Resources on the term loan, bridge to high yield and bridge to equity for the acquisition of Cairn India Limited.
Other deals include eDreams, Endemol, Casema/Ziggo, Cognis, Matalan, OCI/Orascom and Blackstone’s acquisition of Alton Towers & Madame Tussauds.
Sarah handles corporate finance matters including subscription agreements, refinancing structures, and bridge financing, with particular expertise in high-value transactions involving syndicated facilities and cross-border funding arrangements.
Experience
Acted for the banks on the super senior RCF for Cinven’s refinancing of Ontex.
Acted for the banks on the US$45bn facility and subscription agreement for BHP Billiton’s hostile bid for Potash Corp of Saskatchewan.
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Sarah qualified as a solicitor in 2005. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2019, she worked at the following firms:
