Ashurst announces two partner appointments in US

Joining Ashurst from Linklaters, Michael Neary has over 20 years of broad finance expertise and advises arrangers, lenders, agents and borrowers on a wide variety of domestic and cross-border finance transactions and has in-depth experience of advising on syndicated and bilateral credit facilities, acquisition financings, asset-based facilities, corporate and debt restructurings, real estate loans, high yield debt offerings, margin loans, trade and export financings and hedge fund secured loans. He is a member of the New York and California Bars. 

Sarah Rackoff was previously a partner at Orrick and specialises in the area of public finance, an essential part of the firm's infrastructure practice. Sarah has significant experience structuring complex public finance transactions in the petrochemicals, public power, transport, housing and healthcare sectors. She regularly represents sponsors, borrowers, issuers and underwriters for issuances of publicly offered and privately placed tax-exempt and taxable fixed and variable rate bonds.

Commenting, Andy Fraiser, managing partner of Ashurst in the US, said:

"Mike and Sarah are fantastic additions to our US platform and allow us to provide deeper and broader services in the US. Mike's broad experience and contacts make him a perfect fit for us and Sarah's deep experience of US P3 transactions has allowed her to make a very positive impact on active deals in the very short time that she has been here. We look forward to further strengthening our banking and project finance practices in 2018."