Kirkland & Ellis LLP

As a partner in Kirkland’s Global Environmental Practice Group, Sara advises clients on a wide variety of complex environmental issues, primarily in the context of corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and real estate investments in the U.S. and around the world. Sara has managed the environmental aspects of more than one thousand transactions involving all types of businesses and operations. Sara is the go-to environmental transactions counsel for many private equity firms, real estate investment firms and public companies who rely on her to identify and evaluate environmental liabilities and develop creative, practical and commercial solutions to allocate, mitigate and manage the risks associated with those liabilities. Sara’s business-minded support spans the entire course of the transaction from pre-deal counseling to pursuing post-closing resolution of identified environmental compliance and contamination issues. Sara has extensive experience in managing the environmental due diligence process, negotiating environmental indemnities, and securing environmental insurance coverage for environmentally sensitive businesses and contaminated real estate portfolios.

The George Washington University Law School, J.D., with Honors, 2004; Cornell University, B.S., with Honors, 2001