Sarah R. Moros

REPRESENTATIVE M&A MATTERS

Prior to King & Spalding

• Hartree Partners in its acquisition of ED&F Man's global coffee, sugar, and molasses liquid products businesses.
• Ash Grove Cement in its merger with a CRH subsidiary, valuing Ash Grove at $3.5B on an EV basis.
• MetLife in its acquisition of a $2B majority stake in AFP Provida from BBVA and, simultaneously, its dual tender offer for AFP Provida’s U.S.-listed ADR and Chilean-listed shares.
• Citigroup in successive divestitures of its consumer and credit card businesses in Central America.
• Hartree Partners in its sale of Gulf Coast natural gas assets to Williams Companies for $1.95B.
• Carbonite in its sale to OpenText for $1.42B.
• Quala in the sale to Unilever of certain consumer product lines in Latin America.
• WhiteWave Foods in its sale to Danone for $12.5B.
• Soros Fund Management in its acquisition of a minority stake in Crooked Media, which produces “Pod Save America.”
• Walmart in its sale of an 80 percent stake of Walmart Brazil to Advent International.
• Endo Health Solutions in its acquisitions of DAVA Pharmaceuticals and Grupo Farmacéutico Somar.
• Valeant Pharmaceuticals in the sale of Paragon Holdings.

OTHER SIGNIFICANT MATTER

Prior to King & Spalding

• Hartree Partners in its acquisition of 100% of ED&F Man's senior secured A2 and B1 legacy debt.
• Soros Fund Management in its financing Latino Media Network’s acquisition of TelevisaUnivision radio stations.
• Citigroup in its capacity as an underwriter for the GrubHub/Seamless initial public offering at $26/share.
• J.G. Wentworth in its initial public offering at $14/share.

Sarah R. Moros has 15 years of experience advising corporate clients, PE funds, and family offices on U.S. and cross-border M&A, private equity, and complex corporate transactions. Sarah represents clients across a broad range of sectors, including energy, infrastructure, commodities, banking, telecommunications, technology, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products. Prior to K&S, Sarah spent eight years in the M&A group at Skadden Arps before moving in-house. She first joined Soros Fund Management, the privately held investment management firm founded by George Soros, and then Hartree Partners, a global commodities firm owned by its founding partners and Oaktree. Sarah’s years in-house give her a unique appreciation for how clients weigh risk, value, and deal execution. 

Sarah is fluent in Spanish and conversant in Portuguese, having spent four years in various Latin American countries prior to law school. Outside the firm, Sarah has engaged in education and sustainability initiatives, including volunteering with Comp Sci High, a public charter school in the Bronx, and a decade of work with the Natural Areas Conservancy, which champions and protects NYC’s forests and wetlands.

Sarah received her J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law, where she was an Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and her B.A. from Yale University, where she graduated cum laude with distinction in her major.