Ms Sarah Porter > Baker McKenzie > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Baker McKenzie
280 Bishopsgate
London
EC2M 4RB
England
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Work Department

Banking & Finance

Position

Sarah Porter is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Structured Finance Group in London.

Sarah advises arrangers, originators, trustees, issuers, rating agencies and other market participants on securitisation transactions across numerous asset classes, including residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, trade receivables, consumer loans and leases, corporate loans and synthetic structures.

She has acted for arranging banks and originators in both commercial paper conduit and term issue securitisations, for a major rating agency in their review of European CMBS transactions for rating purposes and for trustees and issuers on term deals. In addition, she has acted for Issuers on straight debt capital market transactions, LPN transactions and on MTN Paper Programmes.

Sarah has been recognised as “one to watch” and a “rising star” in the Legal 500, with reference to her being ” smart, pragmatic, and a delight to work with”. In 2017 and 2018 she has also been listed as a “Next Generation Lawyer” in Legal 500.

Languages

English

Memberships

  • The Law Society of England & Wales – Member

Education

  • Nottingham Law School (L.P.C.) (2002)
  • University of Bristol (LL.B.) (2001)

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Securitisation

(Next Generation Partners)

Sarah Porter – Baker McKenzie

Baker McKenzie‘s London securitisation group has a ‘strong, well-staffed team providing excellent client service‘, and clients report that the lawyers are ‘approachable, easy to work with, and can describe complex structures simply‘. Simon Porter leads the structured capital markets group and the corporate trust practice, in which Sarah Porter and Jeremy Levy are highly recommended. Levy recently advised a European e-bikes and bicycle parts company on a €100m trade receivables securitisation. Global chair of derivatives Matthew Dening and emerging talent James Tanner also play crucial roles in the practice.