Sarah Carey is a partner at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP and specializes in trade and investment, with special focus on the countries of the former Soviet Union. She provides legal counsel to a broad range of U.S. and other Western companies that are investing in Russian and other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) markets. Ms. Carey has pioneered the structuring of many of the new business forms now available in Russia and the CIS, including joint ventures, joint stock companies, holding companies, production sharing arrangements, limited liability partnerships, branches and others.
Recently, Ms. Carey has helped to design and establish a variety of investment funds operating in the CIS and has been actively involved in enterprise privatization and restructuring. She has served as lead counsel on several of the largest sale/purchase transactions involving Russian (and other CIS) corporate securities. Ms. Carey also represents a number of Russian enterprises in their international transactions.
Ms. Carey, who speaks Russian, has served on U.S. Government delegations to the CIS and has participated in bilateral conferences on legal and trade policy issues. She was named by President Bill Clinton to serve on the first board of directors of the Russian-American Enterprise Fund and was appointed by U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry to the board of the Defense Enterprise Fund. She writes and lectures extensively on U.S.-CIS relations and has been invited to testify before Congress on U.S. trade and economic policy towards the region.
Besides her transactional work in the CIS and Eastern Europe, Ms. Carey's practice has involved her in investment and privatization projects in other emerging markets, including the People's Republic of China, Latin and Central America and South Africa. Outside of the international arena, she has worked on a broad range of corporate and financial matters. Ms. Carey is a past member of the board of directors of the American Arbitration Association and has been involved in both domestic and international arbitration.
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