Sarah Hewitt — Partner at Blank Rome LLP

Sarah Hewitt serves as Partner of mergers and acquisitions and private equity group at Blank Rome LLP. Ms. Hewitt represents public and private companies from startups to mature companies in the areas of corporate and securities law, private equity and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and general corporate counseling. She advises clients in a wide range of industries, including technology, biotechnology, and energy technology. Ms. Hewitt counsels issuers, underwriters, and investors, as well as directors, executive officers, and in-house counsel, in a wide variety of matters. She concentrates on corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital financing. Ms. Hewitt served as a Partner at Thelen LLP, where she covered corporate and securities law, private equity and venture capital financing, M&A, capital markets and corporate governance. Ms. Hewitt served as Partner of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP. She has represented issuers, as well as buyers and sellers in a wide variety of industries including cable television, cellular telephone, cement, defense contracting, direct marketing, discount brokerage, health care, life sciences, new media, petrochemical, restaurant, software, steel, and technology. Ms. Hewitt has substantial experience counseling clients in SEC and other compliance matters and has provided general corporate counseling on a variety of issues to privately held and publicly traded companies and partnerships, from startups to mature companies. Ms. Hewitt is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the newsletter, eSecurities: Trading and Regulation on the Internet, published by American Lawyer Media and co-authored a column on corporate finance for the New York Law Journal. Ms. Hewitt is a member of the Compliance & Legal Division of the Securities Industry Association and The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where she has served on the Committee on Securities Regulation and the Committee on Corporation Laws. She is admitted to the practice in the State of New York (1983); U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (1983); and the U.S. Court of Military Appeals (1984). She holds BA from Williams College in 1979 and JD from Cornell Law School in 1982.