Sarah Malik is an award-winning lawyer who founded SOL International Ltd, a boutique legal consultancy registered at the ADGM in 2018. Sarah achieved ‘Litigator of the Year’ (2022) at the first GCC Women in Law Awards and received an honourable mention as ‘Law Firm Leader of the Year’ category at the same awards. In March 2022, SOL was named by Legal 500 EMEA as ‘A Firm to Watch in Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and International Litigation’. Sarah was a finalist at the First Middle East Blockchain Awards 2022 for ‘Most Influential Woman in Blockchain and Crypto’. In 2023 Sarah was listed as a ‘leading practitioner’ in The Arbitration Powerlist: Middle East Legal 500 EMEA.

Prior to founding SOL she practiced as a Barrister at a leading set of Commercial Chambers in London for fifteen years, was employed Counsel at a leading UK law firm for two years and headed the Advocacy and Investigations team of an international law firm in Dubai for three and a half years.

Sarah was featured in the special edition of the UAE Managing Partners Report for two consecutive years published by LexisNexis for International Women’s Day.

Sarah advises clients in the UAE and internationally on all aspects of employment and labour law issues. Sarah undertakes all aspects of employment work and has a busy employment law practice, both contentious and non-contentious, at the DIFC and the ADGM Courts as well as undertaking cross border employment matters. In addition, she runs high-level disputes and negotiates senior level severance packages.