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
Latest news
Accounting for Technology Companies That Are Scaling Fast
A tech company can look healthy on every measure that matters to a normal business and still be a few months from running out of cash. Revenue’s climbing, the team’s growing, the product’s landing well. None of that tells you how many weeks of runway you’ve actually got, whether your last R&D claim will survive […]
Read more
Autumn Budget 2026: What a New Prime Minister and Chancellor Mean for Your Business
A new Prime Minister. A new Chancellor. And a Budget landing earlier than any since 2021. If you run a business, this one is worth watching more closely than most. Earlier in the summer, Chancellor John Healey confirmed that his first Budget will be delivered on Wednesday 28th October, the earliest Autumn Budget in five […]
Read more
Can Charities Claim Back VAT?
Plenty of charities assume they’re exempt from VAT, but that can be an expensive assumption. Some end up paying VAT they could have avoided, while others reclaim VAT they were never entitled to, and land an assessment when HMRC looks closely. The truth sits somewhere in between. Whether your charity can claim back VAT depends […]
Read more
