International Arbitrator Professor Sarah Green

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Sarah accepts appointment in FINTECH, digital asset and private international law disputes as arbitrator and expert and is highly regarded by her peers as a go-to for advice within these fields and is accredited by SCL IT Lawyer Scheme.

Sarah’s most recent disputes have included the enforceability of electronic Bills of Exchange, the control of digital assets and their location for the purposes of Private International Law and taxation, and the incorporation of terms in smart contracts.

Sarah is an international arbitrator, mediator and expert with a particular interest in Fintech disputes. For over two decades, she has specialised in both International Trade and Arbitration who is known for formulating the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023, the Arbitration Act 2025 and the Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill, currently going through Parliament. 

From 2022 to 2024, Sarah led the project that culminated in the Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill that is currently going through the Parliamentary process. Sarah was also the Principal Witness to the Special Public Bill Committee in the House of Lords. That piece of legislation ensures that the law of England and Wales can properly accommodate digital assets, including (but not limited to) cryptocurrencies, NFTs and tokens including those representing Real World Assets. As Law Commissioner, Sarah also produced two major reports to accompany that legislation that stand as advice to government and to the judiciary on how to develop both the common law and policy in relation to digital assets. These have recently been cited in both the US Congress and the US Bankruptcy Court.

Sarah sits on the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, the International Jurisdiction Taskforce, the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Working Group on Legal Reform and Digitisation, Legal UK, The Digital Commonwealth Council and the International Digital Assets Council. She is also a member of the PRIME Finance Panel of Experts and a trustee of the Society of Computers and the Law. In 2023, Sarah won both the International Chamber of Commerce’s Award for the Individual Who Has Made the Greatest Contribution to the Digitalisation of Trade and the Outstanding Achievement Award at the British Legal Technology Awards. In 2022, she was placed on the Women in Fintech Power List and on Bloomberg’s “Who to Watch” Crypto List.

As Head of Digital Assets and Trade Finance at D2 Legal Technology, Sarah advises advise a number of state governments and regulatory agencies on how best to structure their legislation and regulation in relation to digital assets, as well as how to change their national laws in order to accommodate electronic trade documents. 

Sarah also co-chaired (with Lord Justice Fraser) the Industry Working Group on Electronic Execution of Documents; a Ministry of Justice body tasked with increasing the use of electronic documentary execution in both the private and the public sphere. Its Final Report was published in 2023.