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Sarah Sloan Reeves

Member, Lexington

859.231.3939

Sarah is a Member in Stoll Keenon Ogden's Lexington office and has been with the firm since 2010. She is a member of the Business Services practice with a focus on Healthcare, Equine and Mergers & Acquisitions. She is also a member of the Antitrust, Trusts & Estates, Tax and Real Estate practices. Prior to joining the firm, Sarah served as a law clerk to the Honorable Eugene E. Siler, Jr. During her clerkship, she assisted with cases before the Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits.

Sarah is a graduate of the University of the Kentucky College of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as the editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Law Journal. Prior to attending law school, she taught high-school English.

Sarah is a member of the Kentucky Bar Association and American Bar Association. She is a member of Christ Church Cathedral.

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Practices

Antitrust, Trade Regulation & Franchise

Business Services

Equine Transactional

Healthcare

Mergers & Acquisitions

Real Estate

Tax

Trusts & Estates

Education

University of Kentucky College of Law
2009, J.D., cum laude

City University
2004, M.i.T.

University of Kentucky
2003, B.A., summa cum laude

Admissions

Kentucky Supreme Court

U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky

Recognition

Law clerk to the Hon. Eugene E. Siler, Jr., Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Kentucky Law Journal, Editor-in-Chief
Order of the Coif

CALI Award for Academic Excellence in Federal Courts, 2009
Colvin P. Rouse Award
Donald A. Winslow Memorial Scholarship
Best Brief Award, Harlan Writing Club
Roy Moreland Scholarship

Affiliations

American Bar Association
Kentucky Bar Association
Fayette County Bar Association

FCBA Women Lawyers' Association
The American Health Lawyers Association, member
Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra, board member, 2013-2015
Leadership Lexington, 2012-2013
Junior Achievement, Fayette County Public Schools, volunteer teacher, 2011
FCBA Women Lawyers' Association, committee chair, community service committee, 2011
The Kentucky Law Journal Association, Lexington, KY, president of the board of directors, 2010-2011

Work Highlights

Reorganization, Refinancing and Acquisition of Major Healthcare Entity

Stoll Keenon Ogden represented a major healthcare services entity, its affiliated upstream and sister companies, its owners and its founding management team in comprehensive reorganization, refinancing and acquisition transactions totaling more than $300 million. The matters resulted in the closing of a senior secured term loan and revolving credit facilities secured by owned senior care facilities in four states with a 9-member syndicate of commercial banks; the requisition of waivers, consents and estoppels from various property lessors on leased senior care facilities in four states; restructuring of upstream holding companies and combination of two upstream ownership groups and boards of managers; the creation of a management company; the introduction of healthcare facility management agreements; the migration of payroll and benefits for more than 7,000 employees; the related restructuring of multiple lease and debt financing and supplier relationships; the creation and reorganization of multiple SPE organizations accompanied by extensive non-consolidation analysis and issuance of a substantive non-consolidation opinion to the lending syndicate; the exercise of purchase option and acquisition of multiple senior care facilities; the contribution of additional equity capital from the client’s majority owners; and the amendment and restructuring of multiple Master Lease and inter-creditor agreements.

Family Business Succession Planning- Sale to Grantor Trusts- Charitable Planning

Represented multi-generation family in planning for their family and estates after the sale of the family business, including preparing and/or implementing Delaware Trusts, a charitable lead annuity trust, limited liability companies, sale to dynasty trusts and valuation discounts as well as assisting in the administration of the estates of several family members after their unexpected deaths.

Related Practices: Business Services

Acquisition of Appalachian Oil and Natural Gas Properties

Acquisition of 1.46 million oil and gas acres in eastern United States (primarily Pennsylvania and West Virginia) with more than 9,000 producing wells. SKO performed due diligence and prepared transaction documents.

Related Practices: Mineral & Environmental Law

Estate Planning & Administration

SKO administers the estates of notable horsewomen and horsemen and is actively involved in planning estates in the shifting economic climate.

Related Practices: Business Services, Tax, Real Estate, Equine Transactional

News Publications Seminars

SKO Elevates Nine Attorneys to Member Status, Feb. 25, 2016

Seven SKO Attorneys Selected for Community Leadership Roles, Aug. 13, 2012

4 Attorneys Join Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC, Oct. 18, 2010

Breaking down five GDPR myths — Why your U.S.-based business may be subject to an EU reg, May 15, 2018

Clinical Co-Management Agreements: Limited Legal Collaboration at Last?, Feb. 1, 2014

Analysis: What is the Fiscal Cliff?, Dec. 1, 2012

When the World Ends I Want to be in Kentucky Because There Everything Happens Thirty Years Late: Kentucky Finally Joins the Modern Rule Against Marketability Discounts in Dissenter Rights Actions, July 1, 2012

"Estate Planning for the Horse Owner" , National Conference on Equine Law, UK/CLE,, May 2016

"Understanding Charging Orders for Partnerships and LLCs" , ALI Video Presentation,, May 2015

"Protecting Assets: Charging Orders for Partnerships and LLCs" , ALI Webinar,, Nov. 2013

“Equine Sales & Use Taxation," KyCPA “Horsing Around” Seminar, Lexington, KY, Oct. 2012

Feb. 17, 2011, "Ethics Issues for In-House Counsel: Vignettes to Ponder, Pts. 1 & 2," presented with Thomas E. Rutledge, A.J. Singleton and Allison J. Donovan, 22d Annual Issues for Corporate House Counsel CLE Seminar

Aug. 24, 2010, "Creditors' Use of Charging Orders and Other Techniques," co-speaker, 13th Biennial Business Associations Law Institute, UK/CLE

"A Clinic for Precise Writing," How-to-Guide for Publishing, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Kentucky