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Sarah Dyke

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020 7320 5457 sarah.dyke@dentons.com

Position

Sarah Dyke is a partner in the Banking and Finance department of the firm’s London office specialising in asset finance. Sarah has broad domestic and cross-border asset finance experience and acts for UK and overseas financiers, banks, leasing companies, lessees, airlines, borrowers and high net worth individuals and family offices. Sarah specialises in:

  • all types of leasing and financing involving assets in transport, infrastructure, energy, medical equipment, plant and machinery, equipment, media, IT and telecommunications;
  • general asset finance work including receivables financing, invoice discounting, trade facilities and factoring;
  • financing and leasing of commercial aircraft, corporate jets and helicopters as well as advising on defaulting borrowers and lessees, repossession of aircraft and restructuring of deals;
  • construction and delivery financing and sale and purchase of super yachts involving a variety of jurisdictions;
  • structured financing transactions involving films, computer games and intellectual property rights;
  • financing and sale and purchase of assets such as aircraft, super yachts and property for high net worth individuals.

Career

Trainee lawyer Dentons UKMEA LLP (formerly SNR Denton LLP) 1999-2001; lawyer SNR Denton Tokyo (formerly SNR Denton Tokyo) 2000-01; senior lawyer Dentons UKMEA LLP (formerly SNR Denton LLP) 2001-07; partner Dentons UKMEA LLP (formerly SNR Denton LLP) 2007-09, partner Dentons UKMEA LLP 2009-present..

Education

University of Exeter (LLB Hons 1997); The College of Law (LPC 1998).

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Transport finance and leasing

The ‘very responsive and strong’ four-partner team at Dentons is best-known for its aviation-related work, where it has a ‘great awareness of the  commercial sensitivities’ unique to a myriad different stakeholders, including banks, lessors and operators. In addition to the firm’s core asset finance prowess, the team is also able to draw upon broader competences within the firm, as well as to leverage vast international resources, a one-stop-shop service which is particularly appreciated by major airlines. Paul Holland  is conversant with a broad array of financing transactions (including those utilising commercial and export credit-backed debt), and has provided vital support to several major airlines, including Emirates, during fraught financial and operational times during the pandemic. Stephen Temple has a deep understanding of the commercial sensitivities of clients in the operating leasing market, work which he combines with a strong airline practice that includes TAP Portugal, which he advises across a myriad work alongside Serge Sergiou . Temple co-heads the team alongside Sarah Dyke , whose broad-based asset finance expertise also covers work in the maritime field. Senior associate James Francis  is also a key member of the team and ‘has extensive experience in JOLCOs and ECA financings’, while at the other end of the seniority spectrum, Nick Chandler  has a consultancy role, having recently retired from the partnership.

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