Sarah is a corporate partner, advising clients on corporate finance transactions and projects, including ECM, public M&A and ESG.
Sarah specialises in advising listed companies on major transactions and projects, from equity capital markets and public M&A, to managing the new and rapidly evolving ESG landscape.
Sarah has extensive experience advising listed companies and investment banks across IPOs and secondary capital raises, including rights issues, open offers and placings, as well as advising on public and private M&A and board-level corporate advisory matters.
With the ever growing and evolving ESG regulatory regimes, Sarah supports companies navigate the increasingly complex disclosure and governance requirements, stakeholder engagement and risk management. Sarah advises on ESG regulation, soft law standards and voluntary compliance frameworks, as well as ESG issues in transactions, supply chains and diligence.
Recommended as being "consistently excellent in all respects" and Sarah has been named as a Rising Star in the Legal 500: Equity Capital Markets for the last 3 years.
Background
Sarah has a Natural Sciences degree from St Catharine's College, Cambridge and a LLB from BPP University. Sarah has spent time on secondment at British American Tobacco and Credit Suisse.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
ECM and M&A
- OneWeb on its £3.4 billion merger with Eutelsat and London listing of the new combined group
- Capital & Counties Properties on its £3.5 billion all share merger with Shaftesbury
- easyJet on its £1.2 billion rights issue
- Hammerson on its £552 million rights issue and sale of substantially all of its 50% interest in VIA Outlets for €301 million
- Hotel Chocolat on its £550m takeover by Mars
- Synthomer on its US$1 billion acquisition of Eastman's adhesives resins business and US$824 million acquisition of ONMNOVA solutions and associated capital raises
- WH Smith on its US$400 million acquisition of Marshall Retail Group and related £155 million placing
- British American Tobacco on its $49.4 billion cash and share merger with Reynolds American Inc
- Sky on its £30 billion contested takeover by Comcast
- London Stock Exchange on its US$27 billion proposed all share acquisition of Refinitiv Inc and €27 billion proposed all share merger with Deutsche Börse (for the banks)
ESG
- an international industrial client on CSRD/ESRS and IFRS S1-S2 eligibility, readiness and implementation, preparation and review of climate, annual and sustainability reports
- a confidential client in relation to an FCA investigation pertaining to climate change statements and disclosures
- a UK-listed multinational client on the requirements and recommendations set out under the Transition Plan Taskforce's Disclosure Framework, the ISSB’s Climate Related Disclosures (IFRS S2) and the related sector specific guidance, the gaps in its current reporting and its first Transition Plan Taskforce-aligned Transition Plan.
- a UK-headquartered international consumer sector company on extensive ongoing advice relating to ISSB, CSRD/ESRS and CS3D, including governance, materiality assessment, and impact and risk assessment
- a UK-headquartered aviation company with a substantial presence across the EU in relation to all aspects of CSRD / ESRS and ISSB compliance
- a UK-headquartered global software company with a substantial EU presence in relation to CSRD applicability
- a US-listed global software company with substantial EU presence in relation to CSRD / ESRS readiness and implementation
- other listed clients in relation to disclosure and reporting matters, including the preparation and review of climate, annual and sustainability reports and advising on regulatory matters, including under CSRD and ISSB
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