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Sarah is a private client lawyer with over 20 years’ experience in a broad spectrum of UK immigration work. She acts for a wide range of clients from every part of the globe – household names and other prominent individuals, international families, UHNW and HNW individuals, professionals and business people, and stars recognised in the global entertainment industry.Her work covers immigration applications under the Investor and Business categories of the UK immigration rules. This includes applications for partners and children including adoption and surrogacy. She also advises on Indefinite Leave to Remain/Settlement and British Nationality applications. She has vast experience in helping clients to find innovative legal solutions in the most complex immigration situations.In addition, Sarah has a wide breadth of experience in contentious litigation cases for high profile individuals who are facing challenging circumstances and often require international protection. She has significant experience in advising high net worth individuals with regards to complex, politically sensitive protection cases involving political persecution as well as human rights-based applications.Sarah’s clients often regard her as their trusted advisor and call upon her for advice on all of their personal and business interests.

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Robin Pickworth

Robin Pickworth is a partner in the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Group. His practice focuses on large complex commercial litigation and arbitration. Robin has particular experience advocating in significant, high-value and high-stakes international fraud and private client disputes for a diverse range of clients, including corporations, sovereign states, financial institutions and high-net-worth individuals. He has experience working with clients in numerous industries, including banking, pharmaceutical, energy, natural resources and public sectors. He has handled several multibillion-pound disputes involving financial services, company shareholders, property and international commodities, usually in the Commercial Court, as well as claims involving sovereign wealth funds and governments. His cases routinely involve worldwide freezing injunctions. Robin has worked on many notable disputes over the last decade, including winning one of the largest ever judgments involving a financial derivative product in the Gulf Region (worth over $700 million). Robin has also been seconded to a private equity house.

Matthew leads our UK Tax Controversy and Litigation Group in London. Matthew’s practice focuses on complex and high-value tax litigation, as well as commercial litigation involving tax. Matthew trained as a commercial litigator, before specialising in tax litigation. This means Matthew thinks like a litigator, developing effective strategies to assist his clients. Matthew combines his strategic expertise with a deep understanding of UK and global taxation issues. Whilst Matthew acts on a broad range of direct and indirect taxation disputes, he has particular expertise acting on employment related taxation issues. This includes employment status disputes, IR35 disputes and PAYE issues. Matthew is also sought out for his expertise in tax related commercial litigation and tax related trust litigation.

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Derval Walsh is a partner in the firm's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Group. His practice focuses on complex finance and banking disputes, including property acquisition finance, and in oil and gas disputes. Derval works with his clients to resolve their complex, cross-border disputes, whether through litigation, arbitration or any other dispute resolution forum. He has been involved in disputes involving rights in respect of loan notes, securitisations, syndicated loans, sovereign debt and interbank money market debt. Derval is ranked by Chambers UK for Banking Litigation. Clients praised him as “proactive, responsible and approachable” commenting that he is “an absolutely excellent technical lawyer and a very good manager of litigation, with a strongly academic background." Legal 500 recognised Derval as a “Leading Partner” for Banking Litigation: Investment & Retail, describing him as an expert in banking disputes. Clients commented that Derval “cuts straight through large volumes of complex issues with razor precision. Very responsive and pragmatic.” Derval is “exceptional - incredibly bright, pragmatic and direct.”