Sarah de Gay
Biography
Sarah de Gay joined international law firm Slaughter and May in 1996, as a Corporate/M&A lawyer, and established its Compliance Department in 2008. She was appointed as Slaughter and May’s first General Counsel in 2015. Sarah was a founding member of the City of London Law Society’s Professional Rules and Regulation Committee (which she also chaired for a number of years) and a member of the Standards Committee of the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Sarah recently stepped down as Slaughter and May’s General Counsel, and is now a Visiting Professor of UCL’s Faculty of Laws, an Independent Lay Member of the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee and a Junior Warden of the City of London Solicitors’ Company (the livery company for City solicitors). She also has a role as a Special Adviser to Slaughter and May on regulatory matters.
Member of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
The role of the committee is to:
- provide independent advice to the Prime Minister on the application of the government’s Business Appointment Rules to the most senior members of the Civil Service, armed forces, diplomatic service, and intelligence agencies who wish to take up appointments within 2 years of leaving Crown service
- provide independent advice directly to former ministers on appointments they wish to take up within 2 years of leaving government