Trinity International
Sarah Smit is an experienced legal consultant and former Deputy Chief Legal Officer with extensive expertise in debt law, commercial lending, and development finance. Currently, Sarah holds multiple consultant roles at Smit Advisory Limited, Zvilo, Acuity Law, and Trinity International, providing advisory services on trade, supply chain finance, and emerging markets financing. Previously, Sarah served as Senior Counsel at British International Investment and CDC Group plc, where responsibilities included managing legal risks for debt and project finance investments across various sectors in Africa and South Asia. Sarah's foundational experience includes roles at Linklaters, Allen & Overy, and a legal secondee position at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Educational qualifications include a Level 3 Award in Effective Coaching and legal practice qualifications from the College of Law, alongside a BSc in Geography from Durham University.
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Trinity International
Trinity International LLP is a niche project and corporate finance law firm focusing on energy, infrastructure, resources and industry with offices in London, Paris, Washington DC and Singapore with additional Trinity lawyers based in Dubai and in South Africa. Trinity's primary focus is on transactions throughout emerging markets, particularly in Africa, Asia-Pac and Latin America. Trinity offers an innovative approach to providing legal advice through its willingness to share transaction risk alongside its clients. Trinity's philosophy is always to strive to add value to the transactions on which it works by being more than just providers of legal advice.