Specialist areas
- Commercial support
- Customer & supplier contracts
- Company secretarial
- Shareholder agreements
Sarah qualified as a solicitor in 2004 and spent 13 years in private legal practice before joining Whittock Consulting.
Sarah uses her experience of commercial law to provide clients with clear and practical commercial advice. Sarah advises on a variety of contractual matters. She also provides a company secretarial service particularly assisting companies with their compliance needs.
Sarah likes to pursue a few of her passions including cycling, golf and karate.
What's one piece of accounting advice you think all business owners should follow?
When you go into business with someone, always set out how your relationship will work in writing – partnership/shareholder agreement.
What's your role at the firm, and what does a typical day look like for you?
I’m the legal beagle and co-director of the business.
What do you like to do outside of work?
Karate, golf, walking the dog.
What's one myth about lawyers you'd like to bust?
That we don’t understand commercial reality. I will always try to find a commercial solution within the legal framework OR we’re sooooo expensive – not us – we have pricing solutions for all sizes of business.
If I wasn't an accountant, I would be...
A helicopter pilot.
"As someone unfamiliar with creating contracts and T&Cs, I was worried before getting in touch with WCL, but they quickly made things stress free and easy for me."Frank West
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