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Sarah is a Partner in both our Corporate & Commercial and Intellectual Property (IP) teams, specialising in commercial, intellectual property, and technology law.

Her work covers the full range of contractual and digital issues relevant to businesses and entrepreneurs seeking to enter new markets or commercialise new technology/ AI.

Sarah specialises in non-contentious commercial contracts, IP and IT transactions, with expertise in corporate M&A, joint ventures, and investment deals. She advises on privacy rights in agreements, royalty and commission structures, and handles licensing, IP assignments and Software as a Service (SaaS) agreements.

Sarah is experienced in the full range of commercial documents required in a new project including software, FinTech and platform development agreements having worked in the financial services sector.

Sarah is dual qualified in England & Wales, and in New Zealand. She joined the Linklaters London office from Baldwins, a NZ patent attorney firm. She has also worked in Norton Rose’s London office and nationwide firm Clarke Willmott.

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Sarah's work highlights

AI FinTech project

Advising entrepreneur on AI based financial services offering in new venture; preparation of all IP licensing and assignment agreements; advising on strategic supplier, proof of concept agreements and AI / Open Source Software (OOS) platform development plans.

Bupa Global website set-up

Advised the e-commerce digital division of Bupa; handled all web related legal, cybersecurity and data protection issues world-wide and advised Bupa’s global business units on all technology, consumer, e-commerce and digital queries for their healthcare related investments, sponsorships and/or global marketing campaigns.

Commercial/tech transactional advice

Supporting French tech company during RFP process for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) UK based project and support on negotiating Term Sheet with favoured supplier SAP.

Financial data licensing and platform agreements:

Advising CME Group on its global EMEA e-commerce and financial service contracts provided by its IT based subsidiaries; updated customer T&Cs, negotiated data licensing agreements with banks and global financial institutions; advised on compliance, confidentiality and data controller concerns; prepared IP/IT clauses of commercial and financial documentation.

IP licence

Prepared licence agreement for UK company seeking to license its super yacht ceramic coating products and services to a US based licensee; heads of terms; IP licence and assignment agreements for internal restructuring; overseeing portfolio management by instructing overseas trade mark agents; strategic commercial advice to management as required.

IP/ Tech EMEA corporate divestment of assets

IP transactional support on corporate M&A matters including the divestment by a leading UK petroleum company of its Swiss holdings; preparation of key licensing and transitional agreements governing the migration of the IP/IT assets to the new owner.

Patent Pool negotiations and joint venture

Conducted commercially sensitive negotiations for Japanese automotive company client seeking to invest in UK high-tech company owning patented silicon chip technology; carried out due diligence and worked with the corporate team structuring the project and joint venture, including instructing patent agent on patent pool with my client, several large German manufacturers and the silicon chip provider.

Template Trade Mark agreements

Preparing template supply, licensing and distribution agreements for Costa Coffee products in the EEA, supporting in-house legal team with brand management for new owner’s distribution network.

Unregistered software and database sale

Undertook full due diligence on all IP/ IT and commercial contracts for a management sale of a leading fund data specialist company in Luxembourg to Deutsche Bank; part of EMEA client project team to oversee all client in-house commercial/ IP/IT teams during business sale; prepared IP/IT sections of tender documentation; reviewed all trade mark and domain name registrations; updated client contracts; reviewed tech supplier platform development agreements; reviewed tech supplier licences.

Data Protection training

Collyer Bristow’s Data Privacy team offers live, interactive, engaging and practical training sessions on a variety of privacy-related topics.

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About

Sarah is a Partner in both our Corporate & Commercial and Intellectual Property (IP) teams, specialising in commercial, intellectual property, and technology law.

Her work covers the full range of contractual and digital issues relevant to businesses and entrepreneurs seeking to enter new markets or commercialise new technology/ AI.

Sarah specialises in non-contentious commercial contracts, IP and IT transactions, with expertise in corporate M&A, joint ventures, and investment deals. She advises on privacy rights in agreements, royalty and commission structures, and handles licensing, IP assignments and Software as a Service (SaaS) agreements.

Sarah is experienced in the full range of commercial documents required in a new project including software, FinTech and platform development agreements having worked in the financial services sector.

Sarah is dual qualified in England & Wales, and in New Zealand. She joined the Linklaters London office from Baldwins, a NZ patent attorney firm. She has also worked in Norton Rose’s London office and nationwide firm Clarke Willmott.

work highlights

AI FinTech project

Advising entrepreneur on AI based financial services offering in new venture; preparation of all IP licensing and assignment agreements; advising on strategic supplier, proof of concept agreements and AI / Open Source Software (OOS) platform development plans.

Bupa Global website set-up

Advised the e-commerce digital division of Bupa; handled all web related legal, cybersecurity and data protection issues world-wide and advised Bupa’s global business units on all technology, consumer, e-commerce and digital queries for their healthcare related investments, sponsorships and/or global marketing campaigns.

Commercial/tech transactional advice

Supporting French tech company during RFP process for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) UK based project and support on negotiating Term Sheet with favoured supplier SAP.

Financial data licensing and platform agreements:

Advising CME Group on its global EMEA e-commerce and financial service contracts provided by its IT based subsidiaries; updated customer T&Cs, negotiated data licensing agreements with banks and global financial institutions; advised on compliance, confidentiality and data controller concerns; prepared IP/IT clauses of commercial and financial documentation.

IP licence

Prepared licence agreement for UK company seeking to license its super yacht ceramic coating products and services to a US based licensee; heads of terms; IP licence and assignment agreements for internal restructuring; overseeing portfolio management by instructing overseas trade mark agents; strategic commercial advice to management as required.

IP/ Tech EMEA corporate divestment of assets

IP transactional support on corporate M&A matters including the divestment by a leading UK petroleum company of its Swiss holdings; preparation of key licensing and transitional agreements governing the migration of the IP/IT assets to the new owner.

Patent Pool negotiations and joint venture

Conducted commercially sensitive negotiations for Japanese automotive company client seeking to invest in UK high-tech company owning patented silicon chip technology; carried out due diligence and worked with the corporate team structuring the project and joint venture, including instructing patent agent on patent pool with my client, several large German manufacturers and the silicon chip provider.

Template Trade Mark agreements

Preparing template supply, licensing and distribution agreements for Costa Coffee products in the EEA, supporting in-house legal team with brand management for new owner’s distribution network.

Unregistered software and database sale

Undertook full due diligence on all IP/ IT and commercial contracts for a management sale of a leading fund data specialist company in Luxembourg to Deutsche Bank; part of EMEA client project team to oversee all client in-house commercial/ IP/IT teams during business sale; prepared IP/IT sections of tender documentation; reviewed all trade mark and domain name registrations; updated client contracts; reviewed tech supplier platform development agreements; reviewed tech supplier licences.

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Data Protection training

Collyer Bristow’s Data Privacy team offers live, interactive, engaging and practical training sessions on a variety of privacy-related topics.

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