Focus
Sarah is a lawyer in ClientEarth’s Accountable Finance team in London. She works on a broad range of legal strategies and interventions using corporate and financial laws to push for a more sustainable financial system. Her current areas of focus include private banking, financial markets and listing regimes, greenwashing in the financial sector, corporate and financial regulation, and accounting and disclosure.
Experience
Before joining ClientEarth, Sarah was a climate lawyer at the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI), where she worked on directors' legal duties regarding climate change and nature loss. Before that, she worked at international law firm Clyde & Co, where she specialised in energy and commodities disputes, climate liability risk, and ESG regulation.
Sarah is a pro bono lawyer for Legal Response International (LRI), where she provides legal advice to climate-vulnerable countries on UNFCCC negotiations and implementation, completed a pro bono secondment to The Chancery Lane Project, and is on the Advisory Board for Legal Voices for the Future (LVF), an initiative that educates junior lawyers on the intersection between law, business and planetary issues.
Education
Sarah is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales. She has a BA (Honours) in History & Politics from Exeter University, a Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Certificate.