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Sharon Lamb

Sharon Lamb

UK 2026

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Ranked in 3 practice areas

About

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Practice Areas

Partner Sharon Lamb focuses her practice on health care transactions, investments and projects, as well as comprehensive health care and life sciences regulatory advice. She has advised private and public health care and life sciences clients for more than 17 years. Sharon advises on global transactional mandates, including mergers and acquisitions, complex digital health and data privacy issues, accountable care systems, health care and life sciences tariff, reimbursement and pricing systems, patient choice and access to services, hospital developments and contractual and joint venture arrangements. Provides strategic and commercial support to UK and international clients on UK health transactions and investments, contracting with NHS bodies and on health regulatory matters including digital health, medtech and life sciences. Sharon is recognized for her regulatory, funding and contracting matters experience.

Sharon is also well-versed in health care governance and regulatory matters, public projects, procurements, joint ventures and shared working arrangements, mergers, acquisitions, franchise arrangements and competition clearances. She has acted as a lead on a full range of public private partnerships, including PFI and LIFT.

Sharon has a wealth of experience with NHS law and policy, having completed a 4-year part time secondment with the NHS and national health bodies in London.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Healthcare: Regulatory - UK-wide

Band 1
Band 1

Individual Editorial
Sharon Lamb frequently advises private sector providers on complex regulatory issues surrounding multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions and investments. She is noted for her experience in the primary care and healthtech sectors.

Life Sciences: Regulatory - UK-wide

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial

Sharon Lamb offers the benefit of her extensive experience across both transactional and regulatory life sciences matters. Recent work includes advising healthcare companies on NHS market access issues.

Healthcare: Corporate/Commercial - UK-wide

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial
Sharon Lamb frequently advises private sector providers on complex regulatory issues surrounding multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions and investments. She is noted for her experience in the primary care and healthtech sectors.

Strengths

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  • She has huge sector knowledge and is well connected. She is able to distil the various complex elements of relevant legislation into something that is understandable for the non-lawyer.

    Healthcare: RegulatoryChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Sharon is a perfect business partner who works in lockstep with us. She is first class.

    Healthcare: RegulatoryChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Sharon Lamb knows everything about healthcare law and comes up with creative arguments. She's a real force to be reckoned with.

    Healthcare: RegulatoryChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Sharon is efficient and thoughtful, and she has a deep understanding of the space.

    Life Sciences: RegulatoryChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Sharon Lamb very much gets the life sciences industry in the UK. She has a good handle on the regulatory framework in the UK and EU.

    Life Sciences: RegulatoryChambers Guide to the Legal Profession

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