Sarah C. Palmer

Sarah’s practice focuses on a broad range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, venture financings, licensing/commercial technology transactions, and everyday corporate strategy and governance matters. She represents private companies throughout their life cycles, from company formation up and until they go public or engage in a sale of the company, often serving as outside general corporate counsel. Sarah’s practice spans across multiple industries, primarily technology, life sciences, and financial services. Her experience includes representing both companies and investors in a wide range of financing transactions, including convertible note and Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) offerings. Sarah also represents family offices and funds in the acquisition of and investment in other businesses.

Sarah regularly guest lectures to entrepreneurs and start-ups on the topics of entity formation and early-stage financings at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Before joining Mintz, Sarah was an associate and summer associate in the Boston office of a global law firm, where she worked with public and private companies on general corporate and transactional matters.

During law school, Sarah served as a legal intern at Social Finance, Inc., a nonprofit that mobilizes private capital to create innovative financing programs designed to provide social benefits to communities all over the world. She also worked in the Boston office of a global custodian bank as a proxy voting & governance analyst, and spent time at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston as a legal intern.

Prior to attending law school, Sarah was a Teach For America Corps Member and spent three years as a middle school teacher in Baltimore.