Sarah is a member of the firm's Financial Restructuring and Banking and Commercial Finance practice areas. Prior to joining Thompson Coburn, Sarah was an Examiner in the Safety & Soundness unit of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. While in that role, she performed examinations of banks, bank holding companies and financial holding companies, served as a Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering specialist, performed ongoing financial monitoring and analysis of a designed portfolio of institutions and served as the primary regulatory contact for those institutions.
Sarah's practice includes the representation of lenders, banks and borrowers in finance transactions, as well as debtors, secured and unsecured creditors in restructuring transactions. Since joining Thompson Coburn she has assisted clients in various matters including bankruptcy appeals, preference defense and settlement negotiations and workout situations, including loan modification and forbearance. In the area of commercial finance, she has assisted clients with secured and unsecured lending transactions, as well as regulatory matters.