A&O Shearman

Financial Restructuring & Insolvency

Partner

Sara provides comprehensive finance advice in financial restructuring and lending in private credit, direct lending, and specialty finance transactions.

Sara’s financial restructuring practice focuses on restructuring and debtor-creditor rights. She represents companies, creditors and creditor groups, acquirers, equity owners and other investors in a wide range of matters, including financing arrangements, risk mitigation and planning, acquisitions of distressed or reorganized companies, liability management transactions, chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings, cross-border insolvencies, resolution planning, and other matters.

Sara’s finance experience includes acting for creditors and agents on a variety of private credit, direct lending and special situation financings, for both acquisition, capital refinancing and liquidity management-related purposes, across a range of sectors, as well as DIP financings and exit financings. Sara’s combination of experience gives perspective into the needs of borrowers and lenders alike, and a unique ability to craft credit solutions to meet a wide range of financial and operational needs of individual businesses.