Sarah Malik is an award-winning lawyer who founded SOL International Ltd, a boutique legal consultancy registered at the ADGM, UAE in 2018.

Sarah is also the Founder of Sarah Malik Lifestyle which deals with bespoke consultation and training in fashion, sports, and entertainment.
Sarah has achieved various awards including ‘Litigator of the Year’ (2022) at the first GCC Women in Law Awards. Sarah has been recognised as one of ‘Asia’s 100 Women Power Leaders 2023’ by White Page International in May 2023. She has been featured in Vogue Turkey in September 2024 and in a special edition of Women In Law 2024.

Sarah successfully completed a Fashion Law Certificate Program from the renowned Milano Fashion Institute in July 2023 with Merit and 97% score. The course covered fashion processes and business models (including France, Italy, Brazil, and China) fashion IP processes, fashion negotiation, design, fashion pipeline and counterfeiting, marketing and promotion agreements, and merchandising plan: how to plan and design a fashion collection.

In July 2023, she was appointed to the Advisory Board of Fashion Law Arabia Council. She is a published author of various articles on issues affecting the fashion industry including sustainability, metaverse, franchising and HR issues. Sarah has spoken on panels on infringement issues in the virtual fashion world.

Sarah acts for a company in the luxury goods market who brings a unique and innovative concept to authenticate luxury items. She is retained Counsel for one of the largest jewellery brands in Gold and Diamond Park UAE and has advised a major Italian luxury fashion house in the UAE in respect of misuse of employee benefits.

She is instructed by a European designer to showcase a collection in the Middle East. Sarah is frequently invited to speak at conferences within the UAE, GCC and internationally and also undertakes entertainment law, looking after the interests of artists including IP rights. Sarah will be moderating a panel in November 2024 in respect of Art Crime.