Sarah Greenhalgh

I advise housing associations, local authorities, charities and private companies working in the housing sector on all areas of corporate and governance work.

This includes:

• Mergers and collaborative working
• Corporate re-structuring
• Diversification, including development structuring
• Regulatory and charity law requirements
• Governance structures
• Supporting executives and Boards on structures for growth  
• Board training and company secretarial support
• Consideration of funding requirements and restrictions as relevant to corporate transactions, including advising on restrictions, obtaining appropriate consents and advising on intra-group lending arrangements
• Advising on strategic disposal programmes

Publications

I have written several articles including:

• The social housing green paper: the merry-go-round
• Deregulation: one year one
• Converting to become a Community Benefit Society: key considerations

• Several mergers, including the formation of a group with 22,000 homes
• The consolidation of three large housing association groups and associated commercial/subsidiary re-structure
• Set-up of a new RP and trading arm for an ALMO (which was an unregistered parent)
• Set-up of the first charitable non-registered housing association to receive large scale stock from a private registered provider
• Advising on a corporate joint venture between a local authority and housing association to deliver a flexible rent model and drive income from market sales