- Sarah Ries-Coward
- Partner / Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
Sarah is a corporate partner, advising clients on corporate finance transactions and projects, including ECM, public M&A and ESG. Sarah specialises in advising listed companies on major transactions and projects, from equity capital markets and public M&A, to managing the new and rapidly evolving ESG landscape. Sarah has extensive experience advising listed companies and investment banks across IPOs and secondary capital raises, including rights issues, open offers and placings, as well as advising on public and private M&A and board-level corporate advisory matters. With the ever growing and evolving ESG regulatory regimes, Sarah supports companies navigate the increasingly complex disclosure and governance requirements, stakeholder engagement and risk management. Sarah advises ESG regulation, soft law standards and voluntary compliance frameworks, as well as ESG issues in transactions, supply chains and diligence.