Sarah Devine is a Partner at Hudson Martin. She has more than twenty years of experience representing clients in a broad array of complex business and corporate transactions covering the entire business life cycle. Sarah has been practicing law since 2002 and is licensed in California and Washington, DC. Prior to joining Hudson Martin, Sarah was a Partner at one of the largest global law firms, where she led complex corporate and finance transactions over 22 years of practice. Earlier in her career, Sarah also spent nearly two years as in house counsel at the private sector investment arm of the World Bank.
Sarah has been the trusted corporate law counsel to numerous businesses across a range of sectors, including consumer products, telecommunications, technology, renewable energy, hospitality, private investments and holdings, and non-profit organizations. Her extensive experience includes advising on the full array of business contracts, including distribution agreements and sale and purchase agreements; third party financings; mergers and acquisitions (M&A); negotiation and documentation of private investment transactions; intellectual property (IP) licensing and use; and entity counseling and formations.
Sarah’s extensive commercial and transactional experience includes: working with family offices on their diverse investments and holdings, representing a potential seller of a consumer products company, including involvement in all aspects of preparing the company for possible sale; leading the internal corporate restructuring of a privately-held international broadcasting company; advising a global company in a possible divestiture of assets; advising a company in negotiating and documentation all of its sale of goods, licensing and distribution agreements; supporting multinational entities on the protection and maintenance of their intellectual (IP) portfolios, and advising several nonprofit organizations in corporate issues, including structuring and governance issues and obtaining federal tax-exempt status.
Sarah has been a frequent public speaker and moderator of panels on business law topics and was the co-creator of a podcast on developing and financing transactions in emerging countries, with a specific focus on renewable energy transactions. Sarah also co-taught a course on international business transactions at Georgetown University Law Center.
Sarah has received several recognitions for during her legal career, including:
- Legal 500 Latin America, Leading partner, International firms: Projects and energy, The Legal 500, 2024–2025
- Legal 500 Latin America, Recommended lawyer, International firms: Banking and Finance, The Legal 500, 2023–2025
- Legal 500 Latin America, Recommended lawyer, International firms: Projects and energy, The Legal 500, 2012–2013, 2016–2017, 2019–2025
- Legal 500 US, Recommended lawyer, Finance: Project finance, The Legal 500, 2014, 2019
- IFLR 1000 – United States, Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, 2019–2021
- Who’s Who in America
- Fellow, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, 2014
Sarah received her law degree, with distinction, from Stanford Law School, 2002. Sarah received her undergraduate education at Georgetown University, where she graduated summa cum laude and valedictorian. Following graduation from Georgetown, Sarah completed a U.S. Fulbright Grant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she studied international relations. Sarah then attained a master’s degree in Modern History at Oxford University in the United Kingdom on a full scholarship.
Sarah has always been active in her local community. She is a member of National Charity League, working with local charities on the Monterey Peninsula, has led a Scout troop for young girls, and has served as a Director of a national non-profit organization working to end human trafficking.
Sarah lives in Carmel with her two young children and enjoys all things outdoors, including hiking, golf, and long beach walks.’