Sarah Pfuhl
Senior Advisor to the Chief Legal Officer, HSBC Holdings plc
- Role
- Senior Advisor to the Chief Legal Officer at Hsbc Holdings Plc at HSBC
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sarah Pfuhl
Sarah Pfuhl is Senior Advisor to the Chief Legal officer of HSBC Holdings plc, where she advises on strategic priorities including AI and geopolitical legal risk. She was formerly HSBC\'s Global General Counsel, Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement and Investigations, where she oversaw the contentious disputes portfolio for HSBC globally, in addition to managing global teams of specialist attorneys responsible for providing legal advice on Employment law, Financial Crime compliance, and Competition law. Prior to HSBC, Sarah Pfuhl held Legal and People positions at ServiceNow, WPP, and WeWork. She was a partner at WilmerHale, with a practice focusing on litigation, regulatory enforcement, investigations and crisis management. She has represented public companies, global financial institutions, and senior executives under investigation by the U.S. Congress, U.S. DOJ, SEC, FINRA, CFTC, U.S. Department of Treasury, and state attorneys general, as well as other non-U.S. regulators, in a variety of matters. She also has extensive experience dealing with matters involving the OCC, Federal Reserve and FinCEN. Sarah was named a \'Rising Star\' by The New York Law Journal in 2014.
Experience
Senior Advisor to the Chief Legal Officer at Hsbc Holdings Plc
Jan 2026 — Present · NY, US
Education
University of Cambridge
Master of Laws (LL.M.), International Criminal Law
2003 — 2004
University of Oxford
M.Phil (English Literature)
1997 — 1999
University of Cape Town
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Law and English
1994 — 1996
Duke University School of Law
Doctor of Law (JD)
1999 — 2002
MIT Sloan School of Management
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