Sara Teasdale

Practice Areas

An experienced Managing Partner, Sara acts for high-profile, senior individuals who find themselves the subject of internal investigations, criminal fraud or regulatory investigations and prosecutions.

Typically, Sara’s cases involve cross-jurisdictional issues with her clients frequently being investigated by both domestic prosecutors/regulators and their overseas counterparts.

Confidently managing large, complex cases, Sara has represented international clients being investigated/prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO); Financial Conduct Authority (FCA); Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA); US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Career

Sara qualified at Pannone (Manchester) in 2000. In 2006, she joined the London-based specialist life sciences firm Roiter Zucker to build up their fraud and regulatory practice and took partnership there in 2008. In 2010, Sara was approached to set up the London office of Pannone, where she stayed until joining Byrne and Partners in 2014. Sara became the Managing Partner of Byrne and Partners in 2018 and post-merger, she is now the Managing Partner of PCB Byrne.

Professional Memberships

Sara is a former chairperson of the Young Fraud Lawyers Association and is the current Treasurer of the Fraud Lawyers Association. Sara also sits on the City of London Law Society (CLLS) Corporate Crime Committee.