Member of Chambers

Sarah Abram KC was called in 2006 and took silk in 2022; she is described in the directories as a “without a doubt a star of her generation”.

Sarah has for some years – including prior to taking silk – been acting as lead counsel or sole advocate in the most high-profile litigation and arbitration across the fields of competition, EU and commercial law.  Her wide-ranging practice involves multi-jurisdiction and multi-party cases, raising novel points of law.

In addition to commercial and competition disputes of all varieties, Sarah regularly acts in class action litigation, FRAND litigation, jurisdiction disputes and matters involving data/big tech.  Examples of her current and recent case-load include acting unled in the Rail Fares CPO litigation; acting as sole counsel for the successful claimant in the Commercial Court trial Acerus v Recipharm; leading on global FRAND issues in Nokia v Oppo; acting for Telefonica in the litigation regarding the collapse of Phones4U (The Lawyer Top 20 case for 2022).  She is instructed in substantially every large competition damages matter of the day, including Trucks, FX, Power Cables and RoRo.

Call: 2006

Silk: 2022

Fluent French, conversational German.

Bar European Group; Administrative Law Bar Association; Common Law and Commercial Bar Association.

Kendrick Girls’ Grammar School, Reading; Bristol University (2004 LLB Law and French First Class Hons); University of Poitiers, France (2003 Diploma of French Law Mention Très Bien); University College, University of Oxford (2005 BCL Distinction); Inns of Court School of Law, City University (2006 BVC Outstanding).