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Sarah Dyke

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020 7320 5457 [email protected]

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 ‘approachable’ team at Dentons has ‘extensive know-how of different financing structures’, ensuring that it remains well-placed to advise both borrowers and lenders across a broad swathe of new money and refinancing mandates in the transportation space. Clients from the aviation sector continue to generate most of the deal flow, with the four-partner London-based team being very well-placed to handle cross-border mandates by dint of its vast international network, including a rapidly growing Dublin office which has been particularly useful for leasing-related work. Stephen Temple has excellent insight in the sector, informed by his eclectic client mix which includes airlines, lenders and lessors; he continues to advise a core airline client on multiple financing and leasing transactions. Paul Holland provides ‘a commercial perspective to the points of law’ for a Middle Eastern-focused client base. James Francis is recognised as a ‘fabulous asset to the team’, regularly working alongside Holland on matters for a longstanding airline client as well as for other airlines and lessors, where he brings particular expertise in export credit financings. Sarah Dyke co-heads the team alongside Temple and handles some corporate jet, helicopter and yacht financing work alongside her broader commercial aviation offering. The vastly experienced Serge Sergiou also handles some fee-earning work in his role as consultant.

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