O’Melveny Worldwide

Sarah K. Nelson

Associate

Sarah represents private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, institutional investors, family offices and other clients in complex business and M&A transactions. Sarah’s experience includes mergers and acquisitions and strategic investments in a wide range of industries.

Sarah also delivers general corporate counseling to both public and private companies. She leverages her experience as a law clerk to the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to provide in-depth legal analysis and advice to management teams, boards, and other governing bodies on fiduciary duties and other corporate matters.

  • A middle-market private equity fund in numerous acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio companies.
  • Advised Amplifi Group, a leading strategy and information management consultancy, on a strategic growth investment from Source Capital, a private investment firm.
  • A North American beverage company in its acquisition of the global rights to a non-alcoholic cocktail brand.

Admissions

Bar Admissions

  • Texas
  • Kansas

Education

  • Washington University School of Law, J.D.: cum laude; Articles Editor, Washington University Law Review
  • Wichita State University, B.B.A., Business Economics and Human Resource Management: magna cum laude

Professional Activities

Clerkships

  • The Honorable Roger L. Wollman, Circuit Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Sioux Falls, SD