Sarah Day is an experienced finance lawyer. She advises asset based lenders, corporates, sponsors, funds and banks in new money, refinancing and restructuring situations. The deals range from growth capital to structured debt for established multi-national businesses.
As well as transactional work, Sarah advises on new documentation and lending policies. She speaks regularly on ABL and on diversity at conferences and events.
As a banking lawyer for over thirty years, Sarah’s stated career aim is to make a difference: whether that is in terms of getting a transaction done, advising on sustainability and ESG, or improving how deal teams interact. Clients comment that her management of deals is excellent, her advice, “the best I have seen”, and that working with her and her large, diverse and stable team, is “fun”.
Examples of her work include developing standard form corporate lending documents for an international clearing bank, advising an asset based lender funding an acquisition from a plc, advising a sovereign wealth fund on a significant refinancing in the natural resources sector, and a US growth fund on venture debt across Europe.
Sarah is listed as a tier one leading individual by both Legal 500 and Chambers. She is also listed in the Legal 500 "Hall of Fame".
Sarah has the typical lawyer hobbies: walking, reading, travel. She is also predictable in living in the countryside with her husband and dogs. Slightly more random, she is a part time assistant curate in the Church of England.
“We are here to make a difference, to make business better, but there is no reason that can’t also be fun when appropriate, and why we can’t always be human.”
— Sarah Day October 2025
