Sarah Hilton

​She has extensive experience across transactional and advisory insolvency matters, helping clients navigate business-critical challenges and deliver pragmatic, commercially focused solutions.

Sarah advises lenders on insolvency processes, security and enforcement issues, distressed debt matters, formal insolvency appointments and corporate restructuring transactions. She is known for providing practical advice that balances legal risk with commercial objectives. Having completed a secondment with a major UK bank, Sarah brings valuable client-side insight to her work and has built strong relationships across major clearing and other large banks in London.

She also has particular experience advising on restructurings and insolvencies in the leisure, food and drink, retail and consumer goods sectors, including the insolvency of a fast-food franchisee group operating more than 100 sites. She advises clients on directors' duties, distressed situations and pre-pack administration sales.

Sarah has significant financial services experience and regularly advises lenders on debt restructurings, security enhancement strategies and distressed customer matters.

Jurisdiction: England & Wales

• Advising a major UK lender on a distressed technology-sector borrower group, including complex lending and security arrangements, enforcement options, security enhancements and a subsequent debt sale process.
• Acting for the proposed and subsequently appointed joint administrators on a complex pre-pack administration sale of a fast-food franchisee group operating more than 100 sites.
• Advising joint administrators, and subsequently liquidators, in relation to an art gallery insolvency, including asset recovery, ownership disputes and investigations to maximise returns for creditors.
• Advising a major international syndicated lender group on cross-border insolvency processes, debt recovery strategies and stakeholder management in connection with a significant clean energy business.
• Advising lenders on distressed lending and security enforcement matters involving charities, franchise businesses and agricultural borrowers.