LAWYER PROFILE

Sarah Anderson-Butler

Asia-Pacific 2026

Bell Gully

Ranked in 1 practice area

Banking & Finance

New Zealand

1 year ranked

About

Provided by Bell Gully

Practice Areas

Leveraged finance and private credit

Project finance

Real estate finance

Infrastructure

Restructuring and insolvency

Sarah is a banking and finance partner specialising in project and infrastructure finance, leveraged acquisition finance, real estate finance, corporate finance and debt restructuring and insolvency processes. Sarah brings a commercial and pragmatic approach to transactions, working alongside her clients to find innovative solutions to complex transactions.

Sarah has extensive experience advising private equity sponsors, financial institutions and private credit funders on a broad spectrum of transactions across all asset classes, including:

--Project and infrastructure finance

--Leveraged and acquisition finance

--Syndicated lending transactions

--Real estate finance

--Debt restructuring and insolvency processes

--Corporate finance

--Senior and mezzanine debt structures and intercreditor arrangements.

Experience

2012 - 2021

Allen & Overy LLP

London, UK

2018

Goldman Sachs secondment

London, UK

2014 - 2015

HSBC secondment

London, UK

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers Asia & Pacific

Banking & Finance - New Zealand

Up and Coming

Individual Editorial

Sarah Anderson-Butler offers expertise in recapitalisation and restructuring as well as acquisition financing in the real estate space.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Sarah does strong work in distressed scenarios.
Banking & FinanceChambers Asia & Pacific
Sarah is an incredibly intelligent lawyer and one of the first names we think of when a complex transaction is at hand.
Banking & FinanceChambers Asia & Pacific