Sarah Robinson Borders

Sarah R. Borders is a partner with King & Spalding in Atlanta, where her practice focuses on developing, structuring, documenting and closing financing transactions, representing borrowers and lenders in debt restructurings, workouts and forbearance arrangements and representing debtors, lenders, purchasers and unsecured creditors in chapter 11 reorganization cases. Her practice spans a number of industries, including infrastructure, real estate, energy, agriculture, health care, manufacturing, retail, restaurant, hospitality and transportation. Ms. Borders has successfully represented a number of debtors in chapter 11 cases, including The Krystal Co., Ignite Restaurant Group, FXCMInc., Propex Inc., Sea Island Co., AIG Baker, Jack Cooper Enterprises, The New Power Co., WinnDixie Stores, Rhodes Furniture Inc., Dan River Inc., Centennial Healthcare Corporation, WorldHealth Alternatives Inc., LJM2 Investments, Titan Financial Group, Black Diamond Mining andInternational Total Systems. She previously clerked for the late Hon. Henry A. Politz of the U.S.Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. A Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, Ms. Borders has been recognized in Chambers & Partners (ranked as Bank 1 and Star Individual), The Best Lawyers in America (Georgia Lawyer of Year for Bankruptcy Litigation), Legal 500 (Real Estate), The Deal(Leading Individual Debtor Lawyer), International Who’s Who Legal (Insolvency) and Guide to the World’s Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers. She has served multiple terms on the firm’s policy committee and led both its Financial Restructuring and Real Estate practice groups.Ms. Borders received her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, for which she serves on the Board of Trustees for the LawSchool Foundation.