Sarah Barnard

Member of the New York Bar

Work highlights

Sarah has extensive contentious and non-contentious experience advising on governance, risk and regulatory matters. Her practice focuses on transparency, anti-corruption, sustainability and human rights standards for multinationals and financial institutions. She also advises clients in connection with the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and transactional and contentious environmental issues.

Recent experience includes:

• undertaking an internal investigation into a UK regulated company’s compliance systems following a series of dawn raids by one of its principal regulators and preparing a subsequent application for judicial review of the regulator;
• undertaking a global compliance review for a multinational extractives sector company that involved assessing the ability of key operations to comply with safety, environmental, social and anti-corruption law and regulations;
• advising a range of companies on Modern Slavery Act compliance; and
• advising a multinational extractives sector company on the US FCPA implications of payments made to local communities by its associated foundation.

Education

2011 - Northwestern University School of Law, J.D.

2007 - Pace University, M.S., Secondary Education

2005 - The Johns Hopkins University, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa