Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Environment: Transactional

Sara Webber is a partner in Kirkland’s global Environmental Practice Group, where she has spent more than 20 years advising clients on complex and cutting edge 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, industries and real estate assets. 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 focuses on understanding and achieving the client’s goals and 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.

Sara has been recognized by attorney ranking directories, such as Chambers USA, The Legal 500 and Lawdragon. Lawdragon recognized Sara as a “Leading Environmental Lawyer.” In The Legal 500, Sara is recommended for her experience working on environmental matters in M&A and real estate investments. Chambers USA recognized Sara as “an exceptional attorney with an ability to understand and explain complex environmental risks to non-experts” with clients further noting that she is “incredibly knowledgeable,” “very proactive and solutions-based,” and “fantastic to work with.”

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