Sarah was seconded to a major investment bank, where she was responsible for managing their EMEA litigation and contentious regulatory matters. This experience gave her first-hand insight into the commercial and strategic pressures facing financial institutions, enhancing her ability to provide pragmatic and business-focused advice.

In 2023 she was named by the Lawyer Magazine as one of the “Hot 100” lawyers.

Her experience includes advising:

• Indivior plc in a claim brought under sections 90/90A and schedule 10/10A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;
• dfcu Bank Limited and dfcu Limited in defending a claim of unlawful means conspiracy brought in the English courts;
• P.Morgan Chase on significant litigation arising from allegedly fraudulent payments made from an account held by the bank;
• a global investment bank in relation to a collection of regulatory and criminal investigations into allegations of a conspiracy among the world's largest banks to manipulate the setting of the LIBOR and other leading benchmark interest rates;
• UBS in relation to a claim brought against SoftBank and the liquidators of Greensill Ltd arising out of the collapse of the Greensill group;
• Nomura International Plc in relation to claims arising out of derivative contracts with Italian public authorities; and
• in relation to disciplinary and enforcement (and related) proceedings brought by the ICAEW and the FRC (and its predecessor bodies) concerning corporate governance, audit, corporate finance and insolvency matters.