Sarah Gilbert represents financial institutions in all aspects of commercial lending transactions.

She has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and closing a wide variety of transactions, including acquisition and leveraged buyout financings, cash flow and asset-based financings, exit and DIP financings, and, second lien and mezzanine facilities. Sarah has developed a particularly strong niche in unitranche transactions. Her strategic focus extends to private, direct and other nonbank lenders.

Sarah frequently provides training and presentations to clients on a wide variety of business finance topics, helping her clients assess and adjust as necessary to shifting market conditions. She also develops and presents continuing legal education programs and hosts roundtables for lawyers on developing issues and trends in secured lending and related legal documentation.

experience

Leveraged Finance:

  • The sole lead arranger in connection with a $350 million senior secured multi-currency credit facility utilized to finance the go-private acquisition of a leading mining products and services company by affiliates of private equity firm.
  • The sole arrangers in connection with a $110 million senior secured credit facility utilized to refinance existing indebtedness of a trailer manufacturer and fund a dividend recapitalization (subsequently upsized by $230 million to support additional dividends to the sponsor).
  • The joint lead arrangers in connection with a $175 million asset-based revolving credit facility utilized to provide the working capital needs of an aluminum rolled products plant owned by affiliates of a private equity firm. Facility subsequently increased to $400 million.
  • The sole lead arranger in connection with a $200 million asset-based revolving credit facility (including a $15.0 million FILO tranche) utilized in part, to refinance the existing indebtedness a specialty tire manufacturer that is a portfolio company of a leading private equity firm.
  • The sole lead arranger in connection with a $71.0 million senior secured credit facility that was utilized to finance add-on acquisitions by an additives engineering and manufacturing company that is a portfolio company of a leading private equity firm.
  • The sole lead arranger in connection with a $100 million asset-based revolving credit facility utilized, in part, to finance the purchase of a leading maritime services business by affiliates of a private equity firm.
  • The joint lead arrangers in connection with a $140 million senior secured credit facility to a leading manufacturer of steel joists and decks, that was utilized, in part, to fund a dividend recapitalization. Facility subsequently increased to $500 million to fund additional dividends to the Sponsor and ongoing working capital needs.
    The sole lead arranger in connection with a $225 million senior secured credit facility to a leading provider of high-pressure pumps that was utilized, in part, to fund a dividend recapitalization and refinance existing indebtedness.
  • The sole lead arranger in connection with a $125 million cross-border (U.S., Canada and Australia) multi-currency asset-based revolving credit facility that was utilized by the affiliates of a private equity firm to acquire a leading producer of grinding media. Subsequently represented the sole lead arranger in a refinancing transaction that increased the facility to $220 million (including a $20 million FILO tranche).

NAV Facilities:

  • The sole lead arranger in connection with a $115 million NAV facility provided to a leading private equity firm.
  • The sole lead arranger in connection with a $250 million NAV facility provided to a leading private equity firm.
  • The sole lender in connection with a $25 million NAV facility provided to a leading private equity firm.

  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2007
  • California State University, Chico, B.A., 2004

Admissions

Bar Admissions

  • New York

  • Recognized as one of Secured Finance Network’s 40 Under 40 for 2016

I appreciate and enjoy the arts that New York City offers, especially Broadway and off-Broadway theater.