Overview
Sabina Jacobs Margot has extensive experience working on a broad range of real estate, financing, project financing, restructuring, and corporate matters.
Sabina's real estate practice includes representing investors, sponsors, funds and their portfolio companies, family offices, lenders, and major companies in acquisitions, mortgage and mezzanine financings, workouts, and leasing.
Sabina's project finance practice includes representing agents, arrangers, institutional investors, banks and lenders in the energy sector on credit facilities supporting the development and construction of renewable energy and infrastructure projects including renewable energy project construction and build-transfer financings and renewable project portfolio financings aligned with sustainability-linked principles.
Sabina also advises clients on various issues related to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), secured transactions, single purpose entities, reorganization and bankruptcy, and substantive consolidation.
Sabina has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America every year since 2021 for Real Estate Law and for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights and Insolvency and Reorganization Law.
Prior to joining Steptoe, Sabina practiced at two other top-tier global firms.
- California
- New York
- Hon. Brendan L. Shannon, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware, 2010-2011
- J.D., Loyola Law School, cum laude; Order of the Coif; Editor-in-Chief of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Work
Representative Matters
Real Estate and Corporate Finance
- Represented a Luxembourg holding company and its US portfolio companies in their $61 million refinancing of various properties in Manhattan, Miami, San Francisco, and Savannah.
- Represented a Luxembourg holding company and its US portfolio company in its $60 million acquisition and financing of an iconic Chicago office tower.
- Represented foreign conglomerate and its US subsidiaries in the amendments to its $335 million secured credit facilities.
Project Finance
- Represented the arrangers, agents and sustainability coordinator on a secured, sustainability-linked working capital credit facility for a global renewable energy sponsor.
- Represented the arrangers, agents, issuing bank, and green loan coordinators in connection with a $520 million Green Loan Principles-aligned build-transfer project financing of a 265 MW wind farm in Texas.
- Represented mandated lead arranger, Green loan coordinator, agents, issuing bank and lenders in connection with a $70 million Green Loan Principles-aligned assumption and combined amendment, restatement, extension and increase of combined restructuring and refinancing for an operating portfolio of behind-the-meter battery energy storage systems located in Southern California.
- Represented the arrangers, agents, issuing bank, and green loan coordinators in connection with a $510 million Green Loan Principles-aligned build-transfer project financing of a 300 MW solar project in Missouri.
- Represented a leading independent specialist infrastructure credit fund manager in connection with an $85 million credit facility for an affiliate of an industry-leading provider of end-to-end parking technology including electric vehicle (EV) charging station infrastructure.
- Represented the arrangers, agents, issuing banks, and green loan coordinators in connection with a $500 million Green Loan Principles-aligned build-transfer project financing of a 200 MW wind farm in Illinois.
- Represented the arrangers, agents, issuing bank and green loan coordinators in connection with a $1.1 Billion Green Loan Principles-aligned build-transfer project financing of a 600 MW wind farm in Oklahoma.
Speaking Engagements
- "Real Estate Workouts", Financial Lawyers Conference's 2023 Nuts & Bolts – Learning the Essentials: Commercial Finance, Real Estate Finance, and Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Topics for Young Attorneys, September 28-29, 2023
News & Publications
Press Releases
May 9, 2025
Press Releases
Steptoe Advises Lenders on Sustainability-linked $2.5 Billion Revolving Credit Facility
May 5, 2025
Press Releases
Steptoe Represents Sisecam in Acquisition of All Remaining Shares from the Ciner Group
January 3, 2025
Press Releases
Steptoe Represents Lenders on Battery Storage Project Portfolio Financing
December 19, 2024
Press Releases
Steptoe Represents Lenders on Four Renewable Energy Project Financings
December 11, 2024
Press Releases
Steptoe Represents Vantage Infrastructure as Lender in $85 Million Credit Facility for Flash
September 11, 2024
International Compliance Blog
Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements Under the Corporate Transparency Act Are Now in Effect
January 25, 2024
By: Danielle F. Fern, Sabina Jacobs Margot, David M. Stetson, Maia Danna,
Events
Webinars
Real Estate Workouts: Investors
September 24, 2024
Speakers: Lauren Azebu, Sabina Jacobs Margot, Jeffrey M. Reisner
Webinars
What You Need to Know About the CTA: Refresher
September 18, 2024
Speakers: Danielle F. Fern, Sabina Jacobs Margot
Webinars
Real Estate Workouts: Borrower and Lender Issues
June 26, 2024
Speakers: Lauren Azebu, Sabina Jacobs Margot, Jeffrey M. Reisner
Webinars
What You Need to Know About the CTA: A Primer
February 13, 2024
Speakers: Danielle F. Fern, Sabina Jacobs Margot
Noteworthy
Publications
Avoiding Potential Pitfalls and Liabilities Following a Spin-Off
INSIGHTS: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor
March 2018
By: Sabina Jacobs Margot, Brittany N. Schmeltz, Stephen Glover, and Kristin A. Linsley
Possible Makeover for Make-Wholes After EFH
American Bankruptcy Institute Journal
January 2017
By: Sabina Jacobs Margot
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association (Real Estate and Business Law sections)
- California Lawyers Association (Real Property Law and Business Law sections)
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (Real Estate Finance, Commercial Law & Bankruptcy, and Business Law sections)
- Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
- Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Los Angeles