Sarah-Jane Dobson

Sarah-Jane Dobson is a partner in the London office. She is an international products lawyer.  

Sarah-Jane acts on regulatory, litigious and policy matters across the full product life cycle in respect of product safety, compliance and product liability issues.  

Her practice is focused on multi-jurisdictional matters for corporate clients across a range of sectors including consumer goods, cosmetics, chemicals, food (including novel foods) and beverages, life sciences, industrial and automotive products.

She advises on global product launches and market entry due diligence, regulatory challenges and enforcement, regulatory compliance and global product recalls.

Her product liability and litigation work includes managing large portfolios of international product liability claims, advising companies subject to criminal investigations relating to product safety, advising on inquests, public inquiries, judicial reviews and anti-competitive practices and advertising.

Her policy work has focused on assisting clients responding to legislative change, including  Brexit, change of regimes (medical devices) and new legislation (collective redress and product sustainability). She has advised clients in respect of submissions to law makers in respect of proposed change. She has also assisted clients draft internal policies in respect of product safety, compliance and liability. 

Sarah-Jane has been involved in some of the most prominent international product safety and litigation matters, including handling the largest global product recalls, product launches, acting in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and representing a company in respect of a prominent unprecedented criminal investigation under product safety laws in the EU.

She has worked in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and the US. She has a background in science (degree in biomedical science). She has French and German language skills.

Sarah-Jane regularly contributes to prominent publications and key thought-leadership initiatives in her field, including Thomson Reuters Practical Law, Chambers & Partners, and Lexology (getting the deal through). She is also an active member and in leadership roles in peak industry bodies, including on DRI’s product liability steering committee.

Sarah-Jane has received many accolades and is routinely recognised as a market-leading practitioner in international products law.

Qualifications

• Australia (Queensland), Bachelor of Laws/Science (Biomedical Science), 2012 (exchange studies in University of Glasgow, Scotland and Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• College of Law, Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, 2013