Sara Couling

Practice Areas

Sara is a derivatives and structured finance specialist. She has extensive experience of the full range of English law derivatives transactions, together with experience in bank finance, structured finance and debt capital markets.

Her practice includes advising borrowers and lenders on fixed income and FX derivatives in connection with leveraged, acquisition, infrastructure and project financing transactions, equity-linked derivatives (including strategic positions, TRSs, prepaid variable forwards, funded collar structures and structured share buybacks), ISDA Master Agreements and collateral and security arrangements, credit default swaps, stock lending and repos, margin lending involving a wide range of institutions, corporates and sponsors and jurisdictions, secured borrowing base facilities and investment structures and securitisations, clearing documentation, clearing house documentation and associated liquidity arrangements, prime brokerage arrangements, debt trading and regulatory requirements relating to over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives transactions.

Sara advises corporates, financial institutions, funds, a clearing house, asset managers, private equity firms, sovereigns and hedge fund investors in Europe and the Middle East.