Sarah Ashfaq

Sarah Ashfaq is a partner in Goodwin’s nationally recognized Life Sciences and Technology groups and a member of the Capital Markets practice, counseling clients in a wide variety of industries with a focus on life sciences and technology. Serving as her clients’ general or principal outside counsel, Sarah provides strategic advice and legal counseling to management teams and boards while structuring and leading significant transactions on her clients’ behalf.

Sarah has extensive experience representing a diverse range of companies and investment banks with corporate transactions, and securities law matters with a focus on initial public offerings and other public listings, including deSPACs, reverse mergers, direct listings and other public and private corporate finance transactions. She also represents a number of publicly traded biotechnology companies in ongoing SEC compliance and corporate governance matters. Advising companies throughout the full range of the corporate life cycle, Sarah has worked with several of her clients since their initial founding and funding. She joined Goodwin in 2015.

Prior to joining Goodwin in 2015, Sarah was an associate in the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell. Before that, Sarah was a senior associate in the New York office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. She is also registered as a Certified Public Accountant.

Sarah is an active leader at Goodwin, dedicated to global initiatives supporting practice management and associate development efforts rooted in Goodwin’s core values. She frequently participates in the firm’s recruiting, training and mentoring efforts. Sarah is also involved in Goodwin’s opportunity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives and co-heads Women@Goodwin in New York. Sarah previously served on the board of the Muslim Bar Association of New York and currently serves on the board of the American Pakistan Foundation.