Sarah Kenshall

Partner

Sarah Kenshall

Partner

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Sarah is a partner in the intellectual property, IT and commercial team, based in the London office. She has a particular focus on next generation technologies and a deep understanding of the partnerships and supply chains involved in digital transformation projects. She combines her commercial knowhow with an expert knowledge of intellectual property and the laws surrounding data, networks and systems.

Acting for supply side clients, a feature of Sarah’s practice is her advice on the legal and regulatory aspects of often very complex technologies, and devising new business models to handle new technologies and take them to market. She also works with companies procuring technologies, and public sector and quasi-governmental bodies on critical policy and regulatory projects, establishing technology infrastructures to support new services, data sharing, AI and machine learning.

One of the great things about my job is the sheer variety of my work in the realms of next generation technologies. Whatever the technology, my job is to minimise risk for my clients whilst helping them to realise and deliver their projects.

Sarah Kenshall, Partner

Sarah is recognised for her expertise in IT and telecoms by the Legal 500 where she has been described as ‘exceptional’ and ‘very impressive’. One client noted that ‘she has a huge amount of sector experience, understands our issues and helps us find solutions’.

Recent work highlights

Award-winning fintech platform

Advising on issues concerning potential changes to the regulatory regime for variable recurring payments, and the rights and obligations of payment initiation service providers.

National payment system operator

Acting for a client on the commercial agreements and data compliance required to set up a payments system overlay service, to help banks better combat fraud.

Energy certificate trading platform

Advising on the legal aspects of setting up a commodities-style marketplace for trading in renewable energy certificates.

Data marketplaces

Acting for a number of clients across different sectors on setting up platforms to provide real time data from multiple sources, advising on a licensing model, data privacy and platform terms for data publishers and data consumers.

AI as a service

Advising a number of clients across different sectors on the intellectual property, data compliance, and commercial model implications of providing services that incorporate large language models as part of their service.

External recognition
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What people are saying

Sarah Kenshall is a standout technology lawyer who can cut through complexity, analysing them thoroughly and well, and presenting the solution to problems in very clear ways.

Legal 500

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