Ms. Sanborn is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department. She represents clients in private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions transactions and financial restructurings. Ms. Sanborn has represented private equity funds affiliated with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, Tailwind Capital Partners, Greenhill Capital Partners and Metalmark Capital Partners, as well as other private equity funds and their respective portfolio companies in connection with numerous acquisitions and investments. Her recent corporate matters include the sale of Advanstar Communications to Veronis Suhler and other investors; the sale of S&M NuTec to Mars Incorporated; the sale by Kraft Foods of its Cream of Wheat assets to B&G Foods and the sale of its Altoids, Life Savers and Creme Savers business to Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company; Credit Suisse’s investment in Ospraie Group; the sale of Mueller Water Products to Walter Industries; the purchase of FLAG Telecom Group by Reliance Industries; the acquisition by Advanstar Communications of various health care-related publications and projects from Thomson Healthcare; and the sale by DeCrane Aircraft of its Specialty Avionics Group. She also recently represented WebLink Wireless in its Chapter 11 case and JPMorgan Chase in the Maxxim Medical Chapter 11 case, and has worked on numerous other out-of-court financial restructurings and Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, including Morrison Knudsen, Dow Corning, Lone Star Industries, R.H. Macy, Tiphook Finance Corporation, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. and James Cable Partners.

Ms. Sanborn joined Davis Polk in 1991 and became a partner in 1999. Before attending law school from 1988 to 1991, she was a banker with JPMorgan for eight years, leaving as a vice president in its Special Loan Department.

Ms. Sanborn graduated, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Bowdoin College in 1980 and in 1991 received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was editor in chief of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

She was recently appointed the Chair of the Corporation Law Committee of the New York City Bar, has served as a member and secretary of the Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization of the New York City Bar, and is a member of the American Bar Association and American Bankruptcy Institute.