Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

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Sarah Ries-Coward

Sarah Ries-Coward

Work Department

Corporate & ESG

Position

Sarah is a corporate partner, advising clients on corporate finance transactions and projects, including ECM, public M&A and ESG.

Career

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.

Languages

English