Consultant Legal Counsel & Employment Counsel
Sarah Cobbald
Sarah is a commercially minded in-house lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience supporting recruitment, outsourcing and other high-growth businesses. She’s highly skilled in supporting scale-ups with employment law, complex commercial contracts and a broad range of commercial matters, multi-jurisdictional outsourcing arrangements, data privacy and AI governance, combining deep technical expertise with a practical understanding of how businesses operate.
With extensive international experience across Europe and APAC, Sarah has advised on market expansion, entity set-up, cross-border operations and regulatory compliance. She also brings deep employment law experience, advising businesses on a wide range of people issues, including redundancies, TUPE transfers, workplace policies, settlement agreements, employee relations matters, and sensitive workplace issues including stress and neurodiversity. Sarah helps organisations navigate workplace change while preparing for employment law reforms and emerging regulatory developments.
Having spent her career in-house, Sarah is a true business partner who balances legal risk with commercial opportunity. Known for her pragmatic advice, collaborative approach and strong stakeholder relationships, she works alongside leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that protect the business while enabling growth.
Useful to know:
Sarah is very big reader and loves spending time browsing in libraries. She also loves old buildings, churches, art, music and wine – and spending time in European cities is her favourite way to combine all of these at once. She is a very keen skier and tries to get to the mountains at least once or twice a year.
