Ms Sarah Ellson > Fieldfisher > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Fieldfisher Offices

Fieldfisher
RIVERBANK HOUSE
2 SWAN LANE
LONDON
EC4R 3TT
England
Visit website 020 7861 4000 020 7488 0084

Ms Sarah Ellson

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+44 330 460 7019 [email protected]

Work Department

Regulatory

Position

Partner, Co-Head of Regulatory

Career

Sarah advises businesses in highly regulated sectors and have a particular interest in health and life sciences but also in education, sport, legal, surveying, policing, social care and finance.  She has also acted for regulatory bodies for over 20 years and have earned a name as a leading individual in the field of healthcare regulation and professional discipline.

Drawing on Sarah’s public and administrative law experience she provides independent audit, investigation and review services to Boards and Senior Executive Teams in relation to complaints handling, disciplinary processes and governance.  She will often work with them to manage their ongoing regulatory relationships.

Sarah provides strategic advice in relation to regulation and compliance in the UK and overseas.  She has helped develop new regulatory frameworks for professions and sectors and she has supported innovative businesses as they navigate the regulatory landscape, for example in online health and pharmacy services and CBD. Sarah trains and supports staff and decision makers at public bodies and act for clients bringing and defending judicial review cases.

Sarah regularly speaks at national and international regulatory conferences and have published numerous articles on fitness to practice issues.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare

Fieldfisher‘s team, renowned for its ‘deep understanding of the life science landscape in the UK‘  handles work spanning key stage funding for novel transactional funding for pharmaceutical products, regulatory assistance in areas of new technologies and M&A work in the life sciences space. ‘Very experienced operator’ Janita Good heads up the team and is equipped to assist clients with M&A exits and pharma IP partnering deals. Sarah Ellson is frequently called upon to assist with appeals against commercial decisions made by NICE. Vicky Reinhardt, dual qualified in Germany and England,  is well placed to assist life sciences clients with the commercial exploitation of products.

London > Dispute resolution > Professional discipline

(Leading partners)

Sarah Ellson – Fieldfisher

Fieldfisher‘s large professional discipline team ‘delivers on the brief and works to a very high standard’. In addition to acting for an array of different regulators across health, sport, surveying, policing, finance and law, the group represents higher education institutions that offer regulated profession-related study courses. Regulatory group co-head Sarah Ellson ‘knows everything about professional regulation’; and Matthew Lohn has particular experience in healthcare and finance sector-related discipline issues. The practice also comprises Frankie Everitt, an adviser on a range of professional disciplinary, public law and regulatory issues; the ‘very impressive’ Martin Sleight, who is a former GMC in-house counsel; and Olivia Rogers, who assists regulatory bodies and businesses with professional discipline matters. Currently on a part-time secondment to the Bar Standards Board, Chloe Williams is ‘an absolute star in the making’.

London > Public sector > Healthcare

(Leading partners)

Sarah Ellson – Fieldfisher

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