Sarah Winter > Ashurst > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Ashurst regularly works with both lenders and borrowers on real estate-backed loan financings, often cross-border in nature. Ruth Harris and Sarah Watkinson co-lead the firm; Harris specialises in investment, development, and structured lending, while Watkinson – a member of the firm’s global loans practice – regularly works with some of the world’s largest asset managers on high-value transactions. A ‘disciplined, focused and delivery-oriented practitioner’, Sarah Winter ‘s recent engagements saw her acting as lead counsel on the financing of a large entertainment asset. Stuart Blacklock, ‘both commercially astute and an excellent project manager’, recently acted as lead counsel for a Korean sovereign wealth fund on the refinancing of debt facilities in London. Both Winter and Blacklock were promoted to partner in May 2023.