Meet Our Team

Sarah Iftekhar is a partner at ZMA Legal.  Her areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and federal securities law matters.  Ms. Iftekhar also routinely advises non-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Prior to joining ZMA Legal, Ms. Iftekhar was an associate in Sidley Austin LLP’s corporate group and in Cooley LLP’s public companies group, where she advised various public and privately held companies and their boards of directors in general corporate and transactional matters. Prior to law school, Ms. Iftekhar co-founded a digital marketing company and worked in digital and database marketing for six years. 

Representative transactions/engagements include:* 

• Cabela’s Incorporated in connection with its $5 billion sale to Bass Pro Group and the related $2 billion sale of its credit card portfolio
• Multi-Color Corporation in connection with its $2 billion sale to an affiliate of Platinum Equity LLC 
• Duke Energy in connection with its acquisition of Piedmont Natural Gas, valued at more than $1 billion
• Elaine Wynn in connection with her proxy contest against Wynn Resorts Limited
• United Airlines in various corporate governance and securities matters
• Aon Corporation in connection with various acquisitions
• Nordstrom family proposed take private of Nordstrom

*prior to joining ZMA Legal

Ms. Iftekhar received her B.S. from Northwestern University in 2005 and her J.D. from The University of Chicago in 2014. She is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association & the American Bar Association. 

Ms. Iftekhar is conversational in Urdu, Spanish and Punjabi.