Alexandra Gartrell Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Cambridge, England, Gb

Assessor on Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Santa Clara, California, Us

Leads a team of lawyers located across EMEA. ERG lead for Sustainability. Most Valued Person of the Year FY24

Cranleigh, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

Reading, Berkshire, Gb

General Counsel and Company Secretary reports to CEO. Responsibility for all legal matters. Leads legal, commercial contracts and regulatory teams to provide effective support to senior management, the Board and broader business. Provides proactive, in-depth, business-focused legal advice. Identifies and advises on legal risk, helps the business achieve its strategic and financial goals, supporting a culture of integrity, quality, responsibility and ethical behaviour.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Head of Legal EMEA. Pure Performer 2016. Manages EMEA legal team in UK and Ireland. Active member of the EMEA Leadership Team and supports APJ region. Director of international legal entities and responsible for corporate governance. Close collaborative working relationship with global teams and regional stakeholders. Responsible for all transactional and non-transactional legal matters including management of channel, competition law, employment law, investigations, compliance including FCPA, Bribery Act, data protection, GDPR, training. Hands on management and coaches legal team. Provides training to sales and support functions. Participates in global leadership summit. Chapter lead for diversity and inclusion internationally. Pure Good foundation participant.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Head of Legal EMEA manages experienced legal team and regional deal pricing. Deep experience of highly sophistiated contract negotiations with large multinationals. Negotiating and drafting strategic deals in EMEA. Hands on management of lawyers, business officers, contract administration and legal specialists.Clear vision and goal setting capabilities meeting long term strategic objectives. Strong focus on team building, recruitment and management, including guidance and oversight of senior lawyers.Management of budget and outside counsel and other legal vendors in EMEA.Management of litigation and investigations. Identification of and expertise in emerging global issues such as data privacy, fraud and anti corruption / anti bribery laws. Experienced in matrix management and working collaboratively and in cooperation with US legal function.Strategic adviser, sits on the EMEA leadership team and advises management on all legal matters.Communicates clearly on emerging issues with proposed resolution.Reports to and advises Global General Counsel on all legal and negotiation issues arising in EMEA.Member of General Counsel's global leadership team.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

• Head of Legal EMEA - JDA's first time appointment of UK legal – transactional and corporate lawyer manages Europe, Middle East and Africa region, expanding existing team, creating policies and processes, training other departments (HR, Sales, Services, Finance), improving customer contracts, issuing guidance to the wider business• Reports to GC in US. • Responsible for all legal matters in region including procurement, finance, company law, employment, customer contracting (software licensing, services, cloud computing), reseller and marketing agreements, managing disputes and litigation (commercial and employment).• Set up and manages team of lawyers and contract professionals to ensure successful customer contract negotiation• Subject matter expert and global responsibility for Data Protection and compliances. Performs reviews, advises on policies and practices, provides broad education to the business.• Advises on diversity and participates in Women in Leadership programme.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Negotiating multi-million pound national (eg $100m), international (eg.$500m) software & services agreements in various sectors including banking, insurance & government. Negotiates employment terms for outsourcing deals, acquisitions / divestitures. Rigorous negotiation of high focus terms; indemnities, IP, liability.Advising IBM’s Global Financing division on loan documentation. Subject matter expert in relation to technology agreements (especially software) and sought after to negotiate international deals lead from other jurisdictions, compliance.Managing customer disputes/troubled projects, amicable negotiation whilst avoiding litigation. Global M&A transactions eg integration work, migration of terms & conditions and the integration of acquired entities.Deduction from earnings; constructive unfair dismissal; whistle blowing; bullying & harassment, TUPE) providing risk analysis to business leads (has made significant financial savings in settlement negotiations). Managing selection and tight supervision of external counsel, tight budget management. Experienced redundancies adviser (small and large). Works with leaders of all internal functions HR, Finance, etc. Supports recruitment team on Executive hires & remuneration.Provides specialist support to the Resource Board (reviews all aspects of remuneration). Employment law advice to other lawyers UKI, European & US legal departments. Supports recruitment team on Executive hires and remuneration. Specialist support to the Resource Board on remuneration. Advice on disciplinaries, grievances, appraisal & dismissal appeals, employment contracts, flexible working policies, absence, international assignments and secondments, police investigations, enforcing restrictive covenants with outbound executives to competitors, changes to terms & conditions. Negotiating TUPE/employee transfer terms in large strategic outsourcings (eg. $4bn), acquisitions & divestitures. Settlement agreements for outbound employees.

Gb

Sole Legal Counsel and Company Secretary of “start-up” reporting to CEO of telecoms company providing wholesale access to digital subscriber lines (broadband). Conducting negotiations with BT to obtain access to their local exchanges; negotiating with Oftel in operator forums. Working with other Board members, FD, CEO & financial advisers in arranging company’s financings. Presenting to Venture Capitalists on legal framework and company’s business plan. Member of senior management team and member of Remuneration and Finance Committees. Drafting all usual commercial contracts. Negotiating employment and trust and confidence agreements with the senior management team. Handling employment disputes. Appointing and managing external counsel.

Quoted on Nasdaq and London Stock Exchange. Originally set up by US West and TCI. Major shareholders: Liberty Media, Microsoft Working closely with the General Counsel, Finance Director and the CEO. Handling operational issues with Regional Management. Set up a claims sub-division of the legal department managing a team of trainee solicitors and paralegals. Corporate / M&A : Conducted sale of shareholding (£3.15m) in joint venture company and negotiating ongoing supply agreement to purchaser for provision of data networks. Negotiating various joint ventures and investments in digital content providers. Assisted General Counsel in negotiations and separation work on proposed £8bn merger. Responsible for managing legal work and instructing external counsel on proposed German acquisition (£30m). Special projects, Media & Telecoms, Commercial & IT, Employment & Immigration, Litigation, Property

London, Gb

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