Sarah Jordan
Head of PREF Knowledge, UK
Sarah is a Knowledge Lawyer Director and the Head of Knowledge for the Projects, Real Estate and Finance Group at Osborne Clarke.
Sarah's legal experience is in finance law. She spent 9 years as a qualified finance lawyer advising banks, borrowers and investors on various financing structures including real estate finance, project finance, corporate lending and acquisition finance. In 2015 Sarah became the Senior Knowledge Lawyer for the Finance team, with a focus on ensuring technical excellence by keeping the team up-to-date on new legal and market developments, maintaining and updating precedent documents, assisting team members with technical legal queries and providing training on law and practice.
As Head of Knowledge for Projects, Real Estate and Finance, Sarah manages a team of knowledge lawyers, designs and implements the knowledge strategy for the group, and drives forward various group-wide knowledge projects.
Sarah qualified as a solicitor in 2006 following completion of her training contract at Osborne Clarke.
Vegagest Immobiliare
Advised on the English law aspects of the financing of two high profile retail properties in London
Lloyds Bank
Advised as senior debt provider
Insights
Knowledge Notes
What business law changes does 2025 promise in the UK?
Our Knowledge Team looks at what's in store for business
13/01/2025
Read time
28m
Knowledge Notes
What did the UK King's Speech contain for business?
As anticipated, the new government has announced a broad range of legislative priorities
19/07/2024
Read time
22m
Banking and finance
No silver lining: English court finds cloud computing company charge to be floating
How can creditors reduce the risk of a fixed charge being characterised as floating?
01/07/2024
Read time
5m
Knowledge Notes
What legal developments can businesses in the UK expect in 2024?
Our Knowledge Team looks at what lies ahead for business law
12/01/2024
Read time
25m
Knowledge Notes
Reviewing our UK business law predictions for 2023: how are we doing at the half-way point?
We examine how our predictions have turned out in practice, and what to watch out for as autumn draws nearer
19/07/2023
Read time
18m
Knowledge Notes
UK business law predictions for 2023
As the new year unfolds, we look ahead at what legal developments businesses can expect
11/01/2023
Read time
15m
Banking and finance
Brexit, jurisdiction and finance: the demise of the asymmetric jurisdiction clause?
With potential difficulties enforcing asymmetric jurisdiction clauses, parties are going to need to think carefully about the right jurisdiction clause...
17/12/2020
Read time
5m
Financial Services
LIBOR transition: will a daily compounded SONIA index unlock the use of the sterling risk-free rate?
The Bank of England has published its response to feedback on its intention to produce a compounded SONIA index. In...
25/06/2020
Read time
5m
Managing Covid-19
CLBILS gets larger: Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme cap to increase
The Treasury is reportedly considering increasing the cap on CLBILS from loans of £50m to £200m.
15/05/2020
Read time
2m
Managing Covid-19
Pushing the envelope: practical tips for executing documents using DocuSign
Electronic signature platforms have become an invaluable and trusted way to execute documents remotely; in this article we set out...
15/05/2020
Read time
4m
Managing Covid-19
COVID-19 | Lockdown and 'walk away' clauses: Is Covid-19 a MAC event under English law?
As the UK economy contends with the coronavirus crisis, affected businesses will want to know when and whether conditions are...
08/04/2020
Read time
4m
Managing Covid-19
Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme 2.0: "The Overhaul"
Amid concerns that SMEs were being denied access to the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme and that a 'squeezed middle'...
03/04/2020
Read time
4m
