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Sarah Chilton

Sarah Chilton

UK 2026

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

About

Provided by CM Murray LLP

Practice Areas

Partnership

Employment: Senior Executive

Employment: Employer

Career

Sarah Chilton is Senior Partner at CM Murray LLP.

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, often engaging both regulatory and criminal issues.

Sarah 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 is cross-border and involves contentious partnership and LLP matters, acting for individuals and firms. 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, including business protection issues, whistleblowing, discrimination and harassment issues. She also advises on remuneration structures and issues in relation to deferred remuneration and incentive plans.

She regularly advises employers on issues around business reorganisation and redundancy, conduct and performance issues, whistleblowing and discrimination.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Partnership: Contentious - UK-wide

Band 1
Band 1

Individual Editorial
Sarah Chilton's expertise includes cases concerning alleged sexual harassment and discrimination as well as partner exit negotiations and related disputes. She is triple-qualified in England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Employment: Senior Executive - London (Firms)

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial
Senior partner at CM Murray, Sarah Chilton is recognised for her work representing individuals in investigations and disciplinary proceedings. She regularly advises clients on restrictive covenants.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • She is technically excellent and commercially very sound: she understands she's being asked to help solve a problem and so is not overly legalistic but focused on the outcome.

    Partnership: ContentiousChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • She's very quick at getting to the heart of disputes and solutions for clients.

    Partnership: ContentiousChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • She is really good on the law and really inventive as to the points to take; she is quick at spotting issues and what to do about them. She's just fantastic.

    Partnership: ContentiousChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Sarah was highly knowledgeable, skilful and a pragmatic but very human guide and support throughout a very difficult process. I would not hesitate to recommend her.

    Partnership: ContentiousChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Sarah Clinton is an outstanding professional.

    Employment: Senior ExecutiveChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • It is a pleasure to work with Sarah. She is an outstanding employment lawyer.

    Employment: Senior ExecutiveChambers Guide to the Legal Profession

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