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Sabah Nawaz is a partner in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader's London office.
Sabah represents banks, sponsors, originators and issuers on a wide range of international structured finance, securitisation, debt capital markets, refinancing and restructuring transactions.
Sabah is ranked by Chambers & Partners as an up and coming partner, by Legal 500 as a next generation partner and by IFLR 1000 as a rising star partner, with clients noting her ‘deep understanding of the commercial side of the industry’. Sabah is also named in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in the UK for securitisation.
Sabah has a long track record of innovative and precedent setting work, including developing new securitisation product structures.
Sabah was profiled as part of The Lawyer’s “Festival of Talent' feature for her work advising Investec Bank on its innovative €1 billion secured note programme backed by subscription line facilities, entered into with one of the UK’s largest insurers. The transaction was shortlisted for awards by the Financial Times and The Lawyer.
Sabah advised the arranger and placement agent on the first European CRE CLO since the global financial crisis. Earlier in her career, Sabah represented the sponsor group on the first European CMBS after the global financial crisis, which placed her at the forefront of the CMBS 2.0 market.
Sabah’s experience also includes a secondment to the transaction execution desk in the securitisation team of an investment bank, focusing on asset-backed securitisations and whole business financings.
Sabah is admitted to practice in England and Wales.