Sarah Abram KC

Barrister at Brick Court Chambers

Speaker

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.

Current directories include comments that Sarah is “ferociously bright”, “brings all the technical brilliance” and is a “really impressive, excellent advocate” who “is incredibly proactive, responsive and always prepared to go the extra mile”. She was nominated as EU and Competition Junior of the Year in the Legal 500 UK Bar Awards 2019 and in 2020.

Sarah speaks fluent French and some German. She is called to the Irish Bar and is a member of the Irish Law Library, enabling her to continue acting in cases before the courts of the EU post-Brexit.

Sarah won the award for Pro Bono Junior of the Year in 2021, and is a Trustee of Advocate (formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit).