Sarah Williamson
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Information Technology
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About
Provided by Sarah Williamson
Practice Areas
Sarah is a partner and head of the Commercial & Technology team specialising in Digital & Technology. She has extensive experience advising on a broad range of technology contracts including those with an international aspect and has particular experience in Adtech. Sarah is a very experienced data protection lawyer holding the CIPP/E certification for European data protection law. She regularly advises tech companies on data protection issues including cross border data transfers. Sarah’s clients include well known online publishers as well as global IT support companies, platform owners, IoT companies and cloud solution providers. Sarah frequently works as quasi in-house counsel for a number of her clients acting either as sole legal counsel or as an extension to their legal team, providing pragmatic and commercial legal advice.
Career
Sarah qualified in 2003 and has provided specialist technology advice for over 20 years.
Sarah originally joined Boyes Turner in 2005 and worked there until 2018. She returned and was appointed Head of the Commercial & Technology team in 2022 after working at a London firm.
Professional Memberships
Society for Computers and Law
IAPP
Personal
Sarah enjoys running and cycling.
Chambers Review
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Sarah Williamson is Head of Commercial and Technology at Boyes Turner. She advises a broad range of clients on commercial contracts and software licensing, international technology projects, solutions and hardware procurement, and regulatory compliance. She has notable expertise in the area of privacy and data protection.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Sarah is a great team player, communicator and advisor, who always has our best interests at heart."
"Sarah is careful, thorough and realistic."
"Sarah's work is very high-quality. She can spot highly relevant areas that we haven't even thought of and explain very complicated legal matters in a way that we can fully understand."
"Sarah is a great team player, communicator and advisor, who always has our best interests at heart."
"Sarah is careful, thorough and realistic."
"Sarah's work is very high-quality. She can spot highly relevant areas that we haven't even thought of and explain very complicated legal matters in a way that we can fully understand."