Testimonials
"Sarah is one of those rare legal advisors who can give you the right legal advice but also give great guidance on the commercial aspects of any deal and come up with creative solutions. She is a great negotiator in her own right and was a real asset when seconded into my commercial team to lead deal negotiations. Always pragmatic and very resourceful, great with detail and someone that really owned her work and her deals to conclusion - a safe and trusted pair of hands I was always happy to work with."
Sky UK
Director of Startup Investments
"I had the opportunity to work closely with Sarah in an emerging technology area and she was professional, responsive and effective with great attention to detail. Her legal counsel was key to successful negotiations and she kept a positive and enthusiastic attitude throughout. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Sarah and would highly recommend her."
BBC
Business Development Manager
“Sarah provided us with interim commercial contracts cover whilst we were recruiting to fill a space in the team. She was of great support to both the Legal team and our Procurement function. She was pragmatic, commercial and took the time to really understand our business. She was very pleasant to deal with, always available and flexible to our needs. We will definitely look to work with Sarah again in the future.”
Emily Morton
Head of Legal, Principality
Expertise
Sarah is an experienced commercial, IT and IP lawyer who has worked within large media and technology companies providing business focused legal and commercial advice in the intellectual property, media, technology and data protection fields. Her expertise includes advising clients, drafting and negotiating complex commercial and technology contracts including software development and licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, mobile app agreements, website terms, terms for the supply of goods and services, distribution agreements, content licensing, IP licences and assignments and data protection advice and policies.
Sarah has strong legal and commercial skills and experience analysing complex legal issues, considering and advising on the risks involved and the options and solutions available using excellent problem solving and communication skills.
Sarah is a trusted legal and business advisor who develops and maintains strong relationships with clients and provides those clients with clear advice taking into account their commercial requirements.
Sarah Advises
- Large media and technology companies
- PLCs
- SMEs and technology startups
Experience Highlights
- Drafting and negotiating complex carriage agreements with third party platforms for the distribution of linear and on-demand content.
- Advising a client and negotiating distribution agreements for virtual reality and 360º content.
- Negotiating agreement with social media platforms for distribution of content within their services.
- Advising a client and negotiating a multinational agreement dealing with product tracking and tracing, authentication and digital volume verification technologies.
- Drafting and negotiating agreements for the distribution of apps on various third party technology devices.
- Drafting and negotiating agreements for the syndication and distribution of news channels worldwide.
- Negotiating a complex licensing agreement with the provider of a technology patent pool.
- Advising a client on becoming an FSA insurance intermediary and negotiating the relevant provision of services agreement with the insurance provider.
Career History
Previous Law Firms
Previous Businesses
- BBC
- British American Tobacco
- Sky UK Limited
- Business Software Alliance
Education
- Sky Manager HD, 6 day Institute of Leadership and Management certificate
- University of Bristol, Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice
- The College of Law, York, LPC and CPE
- University of Leicester, BA (Hons) Geography