Sara Coelho > A&O Shearman > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

A&O Shearman
599 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022-6069
NEW YORK
United States

Work Department

Financial Restructuring & Insolvency

Position

Partner

Career

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.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate

A&O Shearman offers a full service across restructuring matters both globally and domestically for a range of clients including borrowers, financial institutions, hedge funds and ad hoc groups. Dallas-based Luckey McDowell is experienced in representing energy sector clients, especially on buy-side clients and focuses on capital restructuring. In New York, Mark Shapiro has worked on company-side out-of-court restructurings, as well as representing creditors. Frederic Sosnick, also in New York has assisted debtors and official creditors’ committees, while Sara Coelho, in New York and Ian Roberts, based in Dallas, are key names.