Sarah Wilson

Partner

Bangkok

Sarah is a partner based in Allen & Overy’s Bangkok office. Sarah specialises in project finance transactions in the power and infrastructure sectors across ASEAN and the wider Asia-Pacific region, as well as broader financing transactions in Thailand. She has acted for major international commercial and institutional lenders and sponsors, and regularly negotiates concession agreements and power purchase agreements with governments and state-owned enterprises in ASEAN. Sarah is known as an emerging market specialist and has advised on many 'market firsts' in this context, most recently in Thailand and Laos. She also regularly advises on large-scale cross-border transactions.

While Sarah is based in Bangkok, she regularly advises on transactions across the wider region and, by way of example, is currently advising on financings in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, India and Vietnam. Prior to joining the Bangkok office 13 years ago, Sarah was part of Allen & Overy’s Structured and Asset Finance team in London, which she joined in 2009.

Sarah is consistently recognised and ranked by leading legal directories for the Thailand, Cambodian, Lao and Myanmar markets. This includes being ranked by The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2024 as a 'Next Generation Partner' in both Projects and Energy and Banking and Finance in Thailand, as well as being ranked by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024 as a 'Band 1' individual for Laos and Cambodia as a foreign expert based in Thailand.

Expertise

Practices

Banking and Finance

Emerging Markets

Projects

Business and Human Rights Law

Sectors

Energy

Infrastructure and Transport

Banks

Office

Bangkok

23rd Floor, Sindhorn Tower III, 130-132 Wireless Road, Lumpini, Pathumwan
Bangkok
10330

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Qualifications

Professional

Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2009

Academic

History BA (First Class Hons), The University of Durham, England, 2004

Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), Nottingham Trent Law School, 2005

Legal Practice Course (Distinction), Nottingham Trent Law School, 2006

Publications: 23 November 2023

Emerging Asia powering ahead with decarbonisation agenda

Asia is at the forefront of the global challenge to balance economic development, climate adaptation and mitigation, and energy security. The region is diverse, dynamic and pragmatic, facing both the…

Publications: 03 November 2022

Multilaterals hold key to Net Zero transition in developing world

Publications: 01 April 2021

Developments in sanctions targeting Myanmar

Publications: 15 March 2021

Myanmar update from on the ground: Changes to the Electronic Transactions Law and the impact on financial institutions

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