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Sarah’s considerable and varied experience makes her a natural addition to the Halebury team. Halebury’s clients will benefit from Sarah’s experience in terms of general corporate and commercial advice for businesses, funds and family offices.
Sarah also specialises in non-contentious commercial art law. Sarah can assist art funds, collectors, galleries, museums and artists with legal advice and support in connection with all aspects of the commercial relationships in this sector. This includes consignment contracts, part share agreements, acquisition agreements, loan agreements, finance agreements, referral agreements, confidentiality and non-circumvent agreements and artists’ management agreements.
Sarah practiced corporate and commercial law at leading international law firm Herbert Smith LLP for 7.5 years. She specialised in M&A, private equity, funds work, corporate finance, the corporate aspects of real estate transactions and financial services. She worked on a wide variety of transactions, and led a large number of high value transactions from qualification onwards.
Sarah advised a range of clients including Resolution Plc (on its £1.54bn rights issue), Blackstone (on its investment into Spirit Group and its subsequent £2.5bn acquisition of the Scottish & Newcastle managed pub estate), Providence, Carlyle, Permira, Hollinger International Inc (on its £729.5m sale of the Telegraph Group), The State Government of Qatar, British American Tobacco Plc, Ferrovial Servicios SA (on its €646m purchase of Swissport), Lonmin Plc, Capita Plc and Friends Provident.
In 2001, Sarah was a member of the “Legal Business” M&A Team of the Year for work on the HBOS merger. In 2005 Sarah was chosen by Herbert Smith LLP to undertake an ambassadorial secondment to Cuatreacasas, one of Spain’s leading law firms.
From Herbert Smith LLP, Sarah founded and ran a business consultancy for the commercial arts sector; thereby gaining an in-depth understanding of the intricacies of the industry and its key players. Within this capacity, Sarah helped to launch a Fine Art Opportunistic Art Fund and she advised various prominent London art galleries on, inter alia, preparing businesses for sale, potential acquisitions, business development, and international sales strategy. She was also involved with negotiations in connection with various agreements including consignment agreements with a major auction house and the drafting of a fine art asset backed loan agreement.
Sarah has written for “Computer Law Review International”, and she is a committee member of a charitable Arts and Heritage Committee. Sarah is also a member of the Institute of Art and Law. Sarah loves art, architecture, photography and design, and she enjoys playing tennis and attending drawing classes at the Royal Academy.
Philip Hoffman, CEO of the Fine Art Fund, was “very impressed by the quality and speed of [Sarah’s] work”.
Brenda Van Camp, Senior Director, International Head of Marketing Strategy for Christies, “Sarah's incisiveness, industry know-how and savoir faire are a rare and valuable mix.”
Anna Ogundehin, Selfridges PR Manager for Fashion & Beauty: "Sarah is a rare combination of intelligence, drive...[and] charisma,…coupled with complete discretion and a steely calm under pressure...."
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