Sarah Chilton > CM Murray LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
CM Murray LLP Offices
36-38 CORNHILL
LONDON
EC3V 3NG
England
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Sarah Chilton
Work Department
Employment and Partnership Law
Position
Senior Partner
Career
Sarah Chilton is Senior Partner at the firm. She specialises in partnership and employment law. She is qualified to practice in England & Wales, in Scotland and in Ireland and has represented clients in both the English and Scottish Courts.
Sarah advises partners, partnerships, LLP members and LLPs on a wide range of issues. She has extensive experience advising in relation to partner investigations and disciplinary matters including allegations of misconduct and sexual harassment, often engaging both regulatory and criminal issues and with the possibility of expulsion. She frequently assembles, and works with, multi-disciplinary teams including other specialist advisers on these matters.
She advises regularly on expulsion; rights in relation to discretionary decision making; partner exits; remuneration structures and disputes; breach of duties; restrictive covenants; team moves and dissolution of partnerships. Much of her work involves contentious partnership and LLP matters, acting for individuals and firms, and her work frequently involves cross-border partnership matters engaging multiple jurisdictions. As an employment and partnership lawyer she has particular expertise in the cross-over of these disciplines which arise in relation to whistleblowing, discrimination and harassment issues as they relate to partners and LLP members.
Sarah has an excellent reputation for providing pragmatic legal advice to employers and senior executives on a wide range of issues. She has particular expertise advising in relation to business protection issues, including post termination restrictive covenants and protection of confidential information – drafting, defending and enforcing provisions – for employers and executives. She also advises on remuneration structures and issues arising in relation to deferred remuneration and incentive plans, in particular representing senior executives in relation to these rights, and disputes arising from these rights.
She provides advice on whistleblowing issues, in particular within the financial services sector, and discrimination and harassment issues for senior executives.
Advising employers, she regularly advises on issues around business reorganisation and redundancy, conduct and performance issues, whistleblowing and discrimination.
Sarah is often instructed in relation to confidential and sensitive matters including in relation to the exit of senior executives and partners for both employer, firm and the senior individual.
Sarah has a particular interest in advising clients in the legal and professional and financial services sectors advising law firms, their partners, fund managers, partners and firms. In the financial services sector she has particular experience of issues arising when someone joins or leaves a fund or financial institution, remuneration structures (including incentive arrangements and carried interest and good leaver/bad leaver provisions), and post termination restrictions.
Sarah regularly advises on cross-border issues involving multiple jurisdictions including the US, the Middle East and Europe and the Scottish law implications relating to funds using Scottish partnerships structures.
Where litigation is necessary, she is experienced at representing clients in the Employment Tribunal and High Court (and equivalent Scottish Courts) and has conducted her own advocacy.
Sarah was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in October 2010.
Memberships
- Member of the Management Committee of the Scottish Discrimination Law Association
- Treasurer of the Society of Scottish Lawyers in London
- Member of the Association of Partnership Practitioners
- Member of the American Bar Association
- Member of the Employment Lawyers Association
- Member of the Law Society of Scotland
- Member of Employment Law Group Scotland
- Member of the International Bar Association
- Member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association
- Member of the European Employment Lawyers Association
- Notary Public (Scotland)
- Chair of Innangard
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Rights of Women Sexual Harassment at Work Legal Advice Line
- Forbes online contributor
Lawyer Rankings
London > Employment > Senior executives
(Next Generation Partners)Known as an ‘exceptional firm’ CM Murray LLP offers specialist advice on multijurisdictional exit negotiation, as well as counselling on settlement packages and restrictive covenant cases. Founder and managing partner Clare Murray
co-heads the team with Merrill April, who is praised for her ‘razor-sharp common sense’ when handling corporate reshuffling and reviewing payout values. The firm also handles a broad range of cases including whistleblowing, gross misconduct and bullying claims. Other key team members include David Fisher and Emma Bartlett, who work on cases regarding constructive dismissal and disability discrimination claims. Sarah Chilton typically handles pregnancy harassment and contentious departure cases.
London > Corporate and commercial > Partnership
(Leading individuals)Offering integrated partnership, employment and regulatory advice, the ‘standout firm for partnership disputes,’ CM Murray LLP, is headed up by Sarah Chilton, an ‘amazingly able’ specialist contentious partnership lawyer who also has expertise in the private equity sector, and Zulon Begum, ‘a top flight non-contentious lawyer’ who predominately focuses on corporate law matters. Acting for clients in the legal, accountancy, consultancy, real estate, insurance, private equity and hedge fund industries, the team has a significant reputation for handling disputes relating to team moves and internal investigations into alleged wrongdoing as well as corporate law matters such as governance of professional service firms. Founding and managing partner Clare Murray, ‘a visionary leader in her field’, acts for US and UK professional services firms, as well as equity partners in professional services and investment management firms, handling partner conduct and performance issues, partner exits, restrictive covenants and litigation. Corinne Staves, ‘a superb new addition’, offers experience in advising on international structures and international governance for professional services businesses. David Fisher often represents firms and individuals in contentious partnership disputes and has a particular focus on business protection. Acting as general counsel and specialising in employment and partnership law is the ‘standout’ Beth Hale, while Emma Bartlett regularly advises on LLP and partnership matters in the private equity and financial services space. Also of note is Andrew Pavlovic, who offers assistance with sensitive partnership investigations, partnership structuring and law firm mergers.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Next Generation Partners London > Employment > Senior executives
- Partnership London > Corporate and commercial
- Senior executives London > Employment
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Employment > Senior executives