Practice Areas
Sarah Michel is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity group and a member of the Private Investment Funds practice.
She represents many of the most prominent and leading French and European investment funds on all aspects of their fund business including fund formation and structuring, carried-interest schemes for management teams, structuring co-investments, reorganizations and restructurings. Sarah also assists French and European clients with respect to their regulatory issues.
Sarah advises private investment funds across a wide variety of strategies: buyout funds, venture/tech funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds, fund of funds, mezzanine funds, secondary funds, debt funds, and distressed funds.
Sarah has also been advising clients in connection with secondary transactions, including traditional portfolio sales, preferred equity, continuation funds and GP-led transactions. She is an active member of Goodwin’s market-leading global secondaries practice.
Personal
Graduate
Institut d’Études Politiques
Bordeaux
Master in Business and Tax Law
University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne
BA, European Studies and Modern Language
University of Northumbria