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Sara Couling
Work Department
Derivatives & Structured Products
Position
Partner
Career
Sara Couling is a partner in the Derivatives & Structured Products practice of Shearman & Sterling’s London office.
She has extensive experience of the full range of English law derivatives transactions, together with experience in bank finance, structured finance and debt capital markets. Her practice includes advising borrowers and lenders on fixed income and FX derivatives in connection with leveraged, acquisition and project financing transactions, in both Europe and the Middle East, equity-linked derivatives, including TRSs, prepaid variable forwards and funded collar structures, acting for investors, financial institutions or hedge fund investors, ISDA Master Agreements and collateral and security arrangements, credit default swaps, stock lending and repos, margin lending, clearing documentation, prime brokerage arrangements, debt trading and regulatory requirements relating to over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives transactions.
Sara is ranked as a “Next Generation Partner” for Derivatives and Structured Products for Legal 500 UK 2023.
Memberships
Admissions
England and Wales
Education
The College of Law, Guildford, LPC (With Distinction)
University of Exeter, LL.B. (Hons)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products
(Next Generation Partners)At Shearman & Sterling LLP, the derivatives and structured products practice has gone through some changes of late, with former practice head James Duncan moving to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and key partner Leona McManus joining Squire Patton Boggs. The firm nevertheless retains significant expertise thanks to of counsel Patrick Clancy, who is a widely acknowledged expert in both English law derivatives and complex and bespoke structured finance products, and counsel Sara Couling, who is ‘delightful to work with and a great problem solver‘. Couling was a key member of the team that advised Ardagh Group’s treasury team on hedging matters arising from its recent issuance of high yield green notes, as well as many other parts of the company’s complex multibillion-euro financing structure. Clancy recent assisted IFC with derivatives aspects of the $652.3m financing of the Central Termica de Temane power project in Mozambique.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Derivatives and structured products London > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
Firm Rankings
- Finance > High yield
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency