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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Contact

Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Sara Masters KC

Sara Masters KC

Silk: 2012 Call: 1993

Languages: French (proficient); Italian (conversational)

Sara is “hugely experienced in the international arbitration field, both as counsel and arbitrator”.  This is complemented by a busy court practice as Leading Counsel.

A go-to Silk for cases raising difficult jurisdiction and private international law issues, Sara’s practice extends to commercial disputes, (particularly complex multi-jurisdictional disputes), EU law (with a focus on competition and private international law), shipping (including shipbuilding and ship sale disputes) and commodities, construction, energy, insurance (including marine insurance) and re-insurance.

She regularly appears as Counsel in international commercial arbitrations before the major international arbitral institutions, and also before trade specific bodies including the LMAA, GAFTA and FOSFA. Her arbitrations have covered areas such as shipping and commodities, ship building, super yachts, joint production oil agreements off-shore construction, gas supply agreements, share purchase agreements and licensing. She has been involved in virtual arbitration hearings as both Counsel and Arbitrator.

She also acts as an expert witness on English law before foreign courts, including the French, Singaporean, Malaysian, Hong Kong and US Courts.

Sara also has extensive experience in the rapidly changing world of commercial sanctions both as counsel and as arbitrator with a particular focus on Russian and Iranian sanctions in the transport and energy sectors, but also extending to more general commercial contexts. This includes advising on the impact of the EU (and UK) Blocking Regulations.

Sara has appeared in the High Court, Competition Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and Privy Council and before the European Court of Justice and Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. She is registered to appear before the Singapore International Commercial Court.

She accepts appointments as an arbitrator both in a variety of global seats. She has wide experience of both ad hoc and institutional arbitrations including the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, CIETAC, UNCITRAL and LMAA.

Sara is also a Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) accredited mediator.

Details of her recent appointments can be found below.

 

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Sara is a fantastic silk to have on your team. She is thorough, sensible, willing to look at creative approaches to difficult issues. She is impossible to intimidate, and expresses herself with a clarity and emphasis which makes her very effective.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

She is quick, gets to the point, saves everyone a lot of time and is hugely experienced.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Very sharp intellect. Excellent advocate. Great presence with clients.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

Sara Masters deals with things efficiently, provides smooth handling and is very helpful.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Sara is a go-to lawyer for shipping disputes.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

She is very good and held in high regard for her intellect.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Sharp and affable, Sara brings obvious intellectual weight.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

A first-class advocate and commercial arbitrator.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Really responsive and effective.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Sara is a great lawyer with a flourishing practice.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

She is hugely experienced, especially in this area of international trade.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Excellent both technically and in handling clients, she is very good at bringing on juniors and creates very well-balanced teams.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

Sara is very bright, responsive, commercial and a pleasure to work with.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

Sara is very good technically but also a good strategist.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

She's got a fantastically clear approach to advice.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

She has been great at hearings and we particularly like her results driven approach, focusing on the important points. She understands the arbitrators’ perspective.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

As an arbitrator she is careful, bright, well prepared and on top of all the detail.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

She is a very quick and efficient chair.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

She is a wonderfully impressive barrister. She gets stuck in and solves the problem.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Sara is fantastic. She is excellent on her feet and in presenting matters on paper. Always keen to use her - both as an advocate or as an arbitrator.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

A first-class advocate who can see the wood for the trees.

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022: The English Bar

She manages the proceedings very impressively; she's on top of all the issues and she's absolutely excellent.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

She has a great ability to grasp detail very quickly and explain things in simple and commercial terms to clients.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

Sara is outstanding, technically brilliant, easy to deal with and fantastic with clients. She is a very experienced barrister with great insight into the mentality of arbitrators.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Hugely experienced in the international arbitration field both as counsel and arbitrator.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

Absolutely brilliant. She is very sound, very calm and measured.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

She is a very able silk. I would definitely recommend her.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

Able to handle complex technical matters with ease.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

Great judgement and a real pleasure to work with – hugely experienced in the international arbitration field, both as counsel and arbitrator.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

Provides exceptional assistance and grapples well with the complex technical aspects of a case.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

Absolutely charming, very bright and knowledgeable. She is very on the ball, calm and polite to the parties, and asks the right questions.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

Excellent. Really commercial, user-friendly and easy to get on with.

Chambers UK Bar 2019

A very approachable, efficient and responsive advocate…

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2019

She has a very calm and considered Admiralty Court style – it's more of a conversation, trying to get them involved rather than banging the table.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

She is a good, tenacious advocate with a lot of common sense.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

Very user friendly.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2019

Very good with complex, technical issues.

Chambers UK Bar 2018

A strong leader, who can direct cases very well.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2017

First-rate.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2017

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