Profile

Sarah is a senior associate in the contentious private client team in London. Her experience spans a broad range of commercial matters with a particular focus on contentious trust and estate issues and wealth management issues for high net worth individuals and families, including multi-jurisdictional and cross border components.

She has acted as lead and junior counsel in New Zealand and the Cayman Islands’ senior courts, and has experience in dealing with a variety of trust, wills, and estate disputes, as well as handling breach of trust claims against trustees and executors, applications to remove and replace trustees and executors, blessing applications, mutual wills, lost wills, and various challenges to wills.

Before starting in the contentious private client team at Penningtons Manches Cooper, Sarah practised in New Zealand and the Cayman Islands. She is a member of the Contentious Trusts Association and is working towards a STEP Diploma in Trusts and Estates, which includes an advanced certificate in trust disputes.