Sarah Turpin is a partner in the Commercial Disputes and Insurance Recovery and Counseling practice groups. She represents policyholders seeking coverage under a broad range of insurance policies, including professional liability, directors’ and officers' liability, public and product liability, property and business interruption, event cancellation, credit risk and political risk, and cyber and technology. She acts for policyholders in relation to disputed insurance claims, if necessary through mediation, litigation, or arbitration, and advises on claims notification and claims management issues. Sarah also advises on policy wordings at the pre-contract stage, including in the context of corporate, real estate, and finance transactions. Her policyholder clients come from a wide variety of industry sectors, including financial and professional services, consumer products, technology, leisure and entertainment, fine art, and exhibitions.
In addition to her coverage practice, Sarah represents directors, trustees, accountants and other professionals in the mitigation and defence of professional liability and related claims. She also acts for claimants in the pursuit of negligence claims against former advisors, delivering strategic, practical, and commercially focused advice born out of many years representing both claimants and defendants in the professional liability sector.
Sarah has been recognized for a number of years in Chambers UK, Chambers Global, and The Legal 500 UK. Recent testimonials include:
“Sarah's client service and commercial vision are both excellent.” - Chambers UK 2026
“Sarah is great. She understands the technical issues really well, but she is also able to distil it and give us the information we need.” - Chambers UK 2026
“Sarah Turpin is genuinely brilliant, one of the best insurance lawyers I have worked with. She is highly intelligent, very knowledgeable, very experienced, great with clients, commercial and tough yet extremely personable. She is first-rate across the board.” - The Legal 500 United Kingdom 2025
“Sarah Turpin is outstanding. Great balance of energy and calm demeanour at the required times.” - The Legal 500 United Kingdom 2025
“Sarah is very efficient, pragmatic, timely and clear.” - Chambers UK 2025
