Sarah Pearce is a partner with Hunton. Her practice covers a broad range of data privacy and data security issues in the UK and across Europe. Sarah assists clients in identifying, evaluating and managing global privacy and information security risks and compliance issues. Ranked by Chambers UK, she has experience advising clients on privacy and data protection compliance issues, including those associated with international data transfers, conducting privacy impact assessments, and risk management associated with the collection and use of data (particularly in the context of leading-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence) and marketing-related issues. Sarah regularly advises clients on cybersecurity incident response, preparedness activities, and associated regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings.

Sarah assists clients in identifying, evaluating and managing global privacy and information security risks and compliance issues. Sarah previously practiced in Paris and offers a broad pan-European perspective when advising clients. With a background in commercial contracts, Sarah routinely advises clients on the privacy and data security provisions of complex commercial and technology-related contracts, as well as those arising in the context of corporate transactions. Sarah is a frequent author and speaker at international conferences on related privacy, cybersecurity and AI issues. She received her LPC from The University of Law, Guildford, her LLB from King’s College London, The Dickson Poon School of Law and her Maitrise en Droit from Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).