EMILIE STEWART advises clients on a wide variety of cross-border financing transactions, with a particular focus on advising private equity, special situations, and opportunistic investors. She has extensive experience advising on real asset transactions, including in the real estate, infrastructure, and energy sectors, including in transactions involving back leverage. Emilie also advises special situations and opportunistic sponsors on their alternative capital investments, with particular experience with heavily structured hybrid investments and NPLs.
Emilie is recommended for Commercial Property: Investment, Property Finance, Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing, and Securitisation by Legal 500 UK 2025. The 2024 edition ranks her for Commercial Property: Investment, Property Finance, and Securitisation. Sources from the 2023 edition stated, “Emilie is a key partner for us, very committed and lots of energy to ensure the deal gets done efficiently. She takes no prisoners in negotiations” and “is a highly skilled technical lawyer offering pragmatic solutions.” The 2022 edition of Legal 500 UK recognized her for Private Equity Transactions. The London Private Equity practice was honored as “Private Equity Team of the Year” in the 2021 Legal Business Awards.
Prior to joining Sidley, Emilie was a member of the private equity and finance team at another international law firm.