Sarah Abram KC

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Sarah Abram KC is a leading competition and commercial law silk. She is described in the directories as a “brilliant barrister with superb judgment, and a smiling assassin in cross-examination”, as well as “a star of both the present and the future”, who is “ruthlessly focused”, with an “[i]ncredible knack of being on top of everything all of the time”. Recent and current highlights include: leading at the trial of a US$200 million international arbitration in a contractual dispute (November 2023, Hong Kong); obtaining the first and second collective settlement approval orders in the CAT (RoRo [2023] CAT 75, December 2023; Rail Fares 1 [2024] CAT 32, May 2024); leading for BMW in the Court of Appeal in a seminal case regarding the scope of the CMA’s powers to obtain documents post-Brexit ([2023] EWCA Civ 1506; Supreme Court hearing listed June 2025); acting as lead counsel for Panasonic in global FRAND litigation against Oppo and Xiaomi (trial Oct-Nov 2024, Chancery Division). Sarah was nominated as Competition Silk of the year in the L500 Bar Awards 2024. She is a Trustee and Vice-Chair of Advocate (formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit).