Sarah A. Elia

Sarah Elia is a skilled adviser to, and advocate for, her clients. She provides astute representation to financial institutions, business creditors, and debtors in bankruptcy and creditors’ rights matters.

Sarah assists local and national lenders, loan servicers, landlords, title companies, and equipment lessors with transactional and litigation matters. She routinely advises a broad spectrum of financial institutions in all stages of loan documentation, debt restructuring, workouts, enforcement, collection, and related litigation. She also represents creditors’ interests in bankruptcy proceedings.

With broad experience in commercial and residential mortgage foreclosures, receivership actions, real estate matters, quiet title actions, replevin actions, confessions of judgment, ejectment actions, recovery and execution of real and personal property, Sarah is an invaluable member of a client’s advisory team. She works closely with her colleagues and her client’s team to ensure that a seamless service is provided to the client.

In 2026, Sarah was included in the Legal 500 US Elite City Focus – Philadelphia for Banking & Finance. The Legal 500 US Elite City Focus rankings spotlight individual lawyers at regional powerhouses who are advising clients on sophisticated, high‑value matters within their local markets, and it is based on peer feedback, client input, and an independent research process conducted by The Legal 500 research team.