Sara Teasdale

Practice Areas

Sara Teasdale is the Managing Partner of PCB Byrne and a Partner in its Criminal Defence Practice. She is consistently instructed in some of the highest-profile and most complex white-collar crime and contentious regulatory cases and has extensive experience of cross border criminal and regulatory investigations and prosecutions brought by the SFO, FCA, ICAEW, MHRA, DOJ and CMA, acting primarily for senior, often high-profile individuals, as well as advising individuals in relation to internal investigations.

Sara previously acted for a corporate defendant in Operation Holbein, the SFO investigation into alleged criminal cartel activity in the pharmaceutical industry. She has also acted for individuals in numerous SFO corruption cases, including the investigation into BAE Systems regarding South African arms deals; Sweett Group plc; and represented a senior individual in the SFO KBR/Unaoil investigation. Additionally, Sara acted for a UK based property developer charged with bribery relating to property dealings with the government ministers in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), which for the purpose of this case, she was sworn into the Bar of the TCI. Currently, Sara acts for a suspect in the Grenfell Tower criminal investigation.

Sara’s other main practice area includes acting for individuals in the financial sector being investigated by the FCA. She acted for the former finance director of the main trading arm of Cattles PLC in the high-profile Cattles FCA case, and in the parallel FRC (formerly the AADB) regulatory/disciplinary proceedings. Sara represented a number of traders at a range of different banks in LIBOR-related investigations brought by SFO, FCA, DOJ and 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 an active member of the Fraud Lawyers Association and has been the Treasurer since 2017 and is a part of the London Chapter Leadership Team of the WWCDA (Women’s White Collar Defense Association).