Sara Coelho is a partner in the Financial Restructuring & Insolvency practice and also spends some of her time working with the Finance practice on private credit, direct lending and specialty finance transactions.

Her FR&I practice focuses on restructuring and debtor-creditor rights. She represents debtors, creditors and creditor groups, acquirers, equity owners and other investors in a wide range of insolvency matters, including risk mitigation and planning, acquisitions of distressed or reorganized companies, liability management transactions, chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings, cross-border insolvencies, resolution planning, and other matters.

Her Finance experience includes acting for creditors and agents on a variety of private credit, direct lending and special situation financings, for both acquisition, capital refinancing and liquidity management-related purposes, across a range of sectors, as well as DIP financings and exit financings.