Do you need legal, commercial or contracting advice? Look no further! I offer an inhouse level of legal support to small and medium sized businesses on an outsourced, freelance basis. Whether your business has a need for one-off advice or a template contract, or to support your existing contracting team during peak periods, I get to know you and your business so that I can provide an ‘inhouse’ level of service to support your business with:• business contract negotiation, review and strategy• bespoke contract templates for self service • business sale preparation• training and mentoring junior legal or contracting teams• sale or purchase transaction management, including due diligence• private equity investment and corporate finance advice and document review• essential legal, compliance & governance requirements for business for Good Corporate Governance• design of data privacy (EU GDPR/UK GDPR) compliant service provisions to clients/customers• website compliance• shareholder agreements• company corporate secretarial services• intellectual property protection and strategic brand advice• dispute resolution and debt collection• HR and employment advice• change management and training • harmonisation of legal and contracting strategies and procedures• general legal advice, commercial and business strategyI am a qualified solicitor regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, no. 295345, admitted 2002, trading as Newdays Legal. Newdays Legal is a trade name of Newdays Consulting Limited. Newdays Consulting Limited is an unregulated legal service provider.

Wycombe Refugee Partnership is a charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the local area. I work with individuals and families to help them navigate life in the UK.

Marlow Ukraine Collective is a community support group to provide help and support to families and individuals fleeing the war in Ukraine and their sponsor hosts in our local community, I help Ukrainian individuals and families settle into life in our area including those we have sponsored under the Homes for Ukraine scheme, by helping with all aspects of life admin including job hunting, housing, benefits, utilities, school liaison, council liaison etc

This is my husband's business owning four community pharmacies in Berks/Bucks. I assist as and when necessary providing legal and HR support and acting as Data Protection Officer. I have handled all legal aspects of the purchase of three and the disposal of one community pharmacy, together with the creation of two new pharmacy businesses. and prepared for and attended several oral hearings with the NHS Litigation Authority to (successfully) defend our businesses from predatory actions by third parties.Newdays Pharmacy was named "Pharmacy Business of the Year 2021" by peers at the Independent Pharmacy Awards as a result its response to the COVID pandemic during which we set up and managed a mass vaccination site in Buckinghamshire delivering the vaccine to over 150,000 people via the deployment and management of a volunteer workforce. I oversaw the implemented the governance frameworks required to set up the centre as well as spent many hours assisting at the frontline in whatever capacity required on the day.

OPEN Health is a leading global provider of scientific communications and market access services to the pharmaceutical industry. I joined OPEN Health as first and sole legal counsel to the group at a time when the group consisted of around 200 staff based mainly in the UK, with a small office in the USA. I established a Legal & Contracts department to meet the ever-growing needs and practice areas of the business, which at my departure consisted of 1300+ people with 16 offices over 3 continents, 10 core business practice areas ranging from omnichannel digital solutions to real world patient data collection & analysis, and serving 170+ life sciences companies inc. 48 of the top 50 pharma companies worldwide. Key achievements:- managed legal aspects of the sale of group through 2 successive private equity sales;- managed acquisition and legal integration of four complimentary businesses, enabling group to deepen and widen its practice service offerings to clients around the globe, and trained new teams on the group’s legal processes to harmonise contracting systems and processes;- hired, managed, and developed a legal team of 6 lawyers and one admin, acting as training principal to enable 3 of my talented team to qualify as Solicitors and one as a Legal Executive;- implemented scalable systems and processes for contract management whilst building a governance framework to mitigate risk and put in place management controls to the business thus enabling the impressive growth of the group and generating shareholder value;- mentored my contract management team to ensure timely contract negotiations with all clients & third parties, taking a solutions based approach to meeting the needs of our clients within the applicable regulatory and legal frameworks, including designing project briefs to comply the evolving web of global data privacy laws pre and post Brexit; - managed all disputes and advised management on strategies for successful resolution.

Simbec-Orion Group is a phase I-IV Clinical Research Organisation with operations in the UK, EU and US. I joined as Sole Legal Counsel to an owner managed business where I developed and managed a legal and corporate support team of 6 lawyers and paralegals, servicing the business as well as providing a Site Contract Management service to clients. I also put in place governance systems and processes to prepare the business for sale. I joined the executive team as Company Secretary from 2012 post PE acquisition.My duties included: - handling the sale of the group to a private equity group; - reviewing and negotiating all commercial contracts (inc inter alia master/services ags, work orders, referrals, international clinical trial ags, preferred supplier ags, outsourcing ags, supply and purchase contracts, heads of terms, expert consultancy ags, letters of intent, hospital/pharmacy/radiology/laboratory ags, machine or equipment hire agreements, confidentiality ags, pharmacovigilance ags, IT supply ags etc) - providing strategic advice to management and the Board;- dealing with all group secretarial matters including the overseas companies; - managing the workload, overseeing the work of and providing support and mentoring to the legal and site management teams; - acting as Training Principal to a trainee solicitor;- managing external legal resources;- providing HR support; - managing litigation and debt collection;- providing training to the group on essential issues; - reviewing and improving internal legal documents, precedents and group Standard Operating Procedures; - general legal and commercial advice on all issues affecting the group including dealing with the regular curve balls that no-one else knows how to deal with in a business!.

Specialising in Corporate (including sale and purchase of SMEs), IP, IT and General Commercial law.

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