Sarah Goodwin

Since joining Golden Flag, Sarah has worked on the following matters, including:

• Brookfield on a series of real estate financings for its Befimmo (Belgium) and Hibernia (Irish) office portfolios, raising approximately €2 billion
• Flint Group on its €1.3 billion recapitalization
• Apax and EcoOnline on the acquisition of Ecometrica
• AlbaCore Capital on the restructuring and refinancing of Babylon Health
• An ad hoc group of lenders to Archer Limited on the successful refinancing and recapitalization of its $600 million term loan
• Apax and its portfolio company EcoOnline on the acquisition of Alcumus’ software business
• Apax on the recommended cash offer for EcoOnline Holding AS
• Partners Group on ongoing financing and portfolio matters for conveyor belt businesses Ammeraal Beltech and Megadyne
• Vitruvian Partners:
  • on the acquisition of Outpost24, a cybersecurity risk management company
  • on the refinancing of Accountor, a financial and HR management software services company

Prior to joining Golden Flag, Sarah worked on the following matters, including:

• Alteri Investors on its acquisition of Benson for Beds, Harveys Furniture, and their associated group of manufacturing companies from Steinhoff International
• Blackstone Credit on a variety of its investments
• An industry-leading digital sales platform provider on its growth financings
• BlackRock on the debt and equity stress financing of Icelandic Water
• Golub Capital on the recurring revenue growth financing to CloudSense, a Vector Capital portfolio company
• Advising the unitranche lender on Exponent’s acquisition of SHL, a global leader in talent assessment, from Gartner Inc.
• Advising the lender on Exponent’s acquisition of the European and Asia-Pacific operations of Scotts Miracle-Gro
• The group of lenders in connection with the acquisition of Itiviti by Nordic Capital. MLAs: Credit Suisse International, DNB Bank ASA, Sweden Branch, UBS Limited and Unicredit Bank AG, London Branch. Debt size: €441m TLB, $140m Second Lien and $50m RCF
• The group of lenders in connection with debt financing made available to The Binding Site, a portfolio company of Nordic Capital. MLAs: HSBC, SEB and SMBC. Debt size: €325m TLB and £30m RCF
• The arrangers on the financing of the public-to-private bid for STADA Arzneimittel by Advent
• The senior lenders in connection with the financing of the reverse takeover by Ring International Holding AG of the Slovenian-listed company Helios Domžale D.D
• A range of sponsors in connection with subscription and other fund financing arrangements

Associate, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, London, 2019–2021

Associate, White & Case LLP, London, 2015–2019

Clifford Chance LLP, London

• Associate, 2013–2015
• Trainee Solicitor, 2011–2013