Sarah Hewitt represents public and private companies from startups to mature companies in the areas of corporate and securities law, private equity and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and general corporate counseling.  She advises clients in a wide range of industries, including technology, biotechnology, alternative energy, and energy technology.

Ms. Hewitt  counsels issuers, underwriters, and investors, as well as directors, executive officers, and shareholders in a wide variety of matters including:

• public and private securities offerings 
• venture capital and private equity transactions
• SEC registration and periodic reporting requirements and stock exchange rules and regulations
• proxy statements and consent solicitations
• mergers and acquisitions
• divestitures
• financings
• joint ventures and strategic alliances
• corporate restructurings and reorganizations
• corporate governance

Ms. Hewitt has received the highest possible rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Represented an environment asset management firm focused on originating and investing in sustainable energy projects in a $12.5 million senior secured loan facility for two biomass power generation facilities located in the San Joaquin Valley in California.
• Represented an environmental asset management firm in a $10.5 million senior secured loan facility for a biomass power generation facility located in Blue Lake, California.       
• Represented an energy investment fund in their $17.5 million private equity investment, and the subsequent restructuring of such investment and their follow-on investment, in the third largest solar energy developer in the United States. 
• Represented a provider of innovative technology-based raw materials to the cosmetics industry in a strategic collaboration agreement with a public company traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange which included a $3 million Series A Preferred Stock investment.
• Represented a privately-owned mining, metals and minerals consulting business in the sale of its business and assets to an international mining and minerals consulting firm.
• Presented to the Board of a NYSE-listed financial services company which recently migrated from Canada to Delaware on directors’ fiduciary duties and the best practices of directors.

COMMUNITY SERVICE & AFFILIATIONS

Ms. Hewitt served as a member of the Board of Managers of The Junior League of the City of New York until June 30, 2009.  She currently serves on the Management Council, as Nominating Vice-Chair, and on the Governance Committee, and has previously served as the Treasurer, a member of the Executive Committee, the Sustainer Nominating Chair and as Finance Manager.