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London, Gb

London, Gb

City Of London, England, United Kingdom

Slalom is a global, platform-agnostic technology consulting company with approximately 12K employees across 45 markets and an annual turnover exceeding $2B. Acting UK & Ireland Regional Commercial Legal Lead (mat cover for Associate EMEA GC) performing the role and responsibilities of head of legal in the UK and I, reporting to Chief Legal Officer:● Provideling people leadership and supervision.● Acting as a trusted advisor and a key member of UK & I leadership team alongside regional General Managers, HR, Finance, and Operations Executives. ● Overseeing all legal functions within UK & I, supporting growth across EMEA markets, advising on legal and commercial implications of expansion, and establishing contracting, policy, and compliance standards in new EMEA territories. ● Leading negotiations and closures of complex, high-value UK & cross-border EMEA/global commercial transactions, ensuring risk mitigation and compliance adherence and supports RFP/ITT processes, strategic supplier procurement, subcontracting, and alliance partner contracting and relationship management. ● Leading/supervising complex, cross-border, enterprise technology transactions ranging from Microsoft/AWS/Salesforce/Google cloud platform, software, app and AI POC, MVP offerings to migration and implementation. Covering everything from white-label partnering, technology licence (including cloud - IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) to data protection and privacy, outsourcing/consultancy, strategic alliance, partner funding, subcontract or third party vendor agreements. ● Handling resolution of challenging UK&I client/vendor issues/disputes. ● Supporting Marketing team, with all external marketing collateral, ad hoc procurement, sponsorship, and competition ts &cs.● Managing all UK and I property portfolio, rent review and extensions. ● Maintaining client, supplier, alliance and subcontracting templates and policies, and delivering legal training to sales and internal operations teams.

London, United Kingdom

Held several parallel roles as: Ireland Head of Legal; Senior Legal Counsel UK and Europe; Europe Legal Champion in 4 areas, alongside Global I&D Legal Lead. Ireland Head of Legal: • Supported Avanade’s fastest growing business globally.• Trusted advisor and member of Irish leadership dealing with strategy, problem management, policy and process development, implementation, and enforcement. • Handled or supervised all legal support and managed all legal matters inclusive of company secretarial, compliance, environmental, social and governance (ESG), M&A and disposals of businesses or assets, employment, and business issues in alignment with priorities of the Irish business. Senior Legal Counsel supporting Avanade UK and Europe: • Provided pragmatic, commercially focused and timely legal advice, support and stakeholder management to Global, EMEA and UKI executive leadership, senior executives, sales, delivery, product and engineering teams in the technology space, acting in customer procurement and sales capacities. • Led complex, cross-border, high-value, high-risk and strategic, frameworks and transactions. Credited with having successfully negotiated the largest direct deal in Avanade's history. • Provided day-to-day support with commercial, digital and cloud services contracts, resale and subcontracting arrangements, internal contract risk mitigation and escalations, and advice and support in connection with IP, data protection, general commercial, potential delivery issues and disputes, employment matters and CoSec responsibilities. • Technology contracts: white-label partnering; technology licence (including cloud - IaaS, PaaS, SaaS); data protection and privacy, outsourcing, consultancy, strategic partner, funding, subcontract and 3rd party product/service contracts. • Handled compliance, ESG, and regulatory issues and provided ad hoc support to HR, Marketing and Finance.• Supervised Global legal network staff supporting UK and EMEA.

London, England, United Kingdom

Leading Avanade's global legal and compliance team to become an industry leading inclusive and diverse team. Guided and influenced global legal leadership and inspired team of 65 lawyers globally to begin inclusion and diversity journey: • Created I&D mission statement, brand, strategy and objectives. • Set-up a governance structure and taskforce, conceived and implemented initiatives to realise strategy and objectives. • Established and managed processes to coordinate and record global I&D activities and progress, against I&D Commitment Framework. Achieved cultural, recruitment and community engagement change in the department, including a: • 35% increase in personnel feeling represented or included an increase in legal membership of employee networks, allyship and voluntary outreach hours engagement. • 50% diverse slate requirement when hiring new candidates and in the make-up of outside counsel.• 50% increase in DEI training.

Uk

• Legal business partner to Daisy Corporate Services and senior legal advisor to Daisy Partner Services, Daisy SMB, procurement and marketing teams.• Provided day-to-day legal, compliance and regulatory advice pertaining to telecoms, IP, data protection, corporate, commercial, competition, employment, insurance, insolvency, marketing and procurement.• Manager/Supervisor to solicitors, trainee solicitors/paralegals in the team.• Training Principal responsible for overseeing training and supervision of trainee solicitors.

Acting Group Legal Counsel for the CMA Group within McGraw-Hill Financial (trading as S&P Global):• Direct responsibility for advising, leading negotiation, and managing contracts with clients, suppliers, and partners. • Managed IP portfolio, acquisitions, licensing, and management of disputes. • Provided business-focused legal, compliance and regulatory advice and support. • Tenure concluded with disposal by CME to Mc-Graw-Hill, directly led disposal and post-merger integration activities.

England, Uk

As Legal Counsel to UK and Ireland, served as Legal business partner to UK Consumer Imaging, Business Solutions and Marketing Divisions.In addition to legal counsel duties, served as Data Protection Manager for UKI, as EMEA Legal Advisor on product incidents/PR issues, and led/supported IP investigations and resolution of parallel imports and counterfeit products.

Swindon, Uk

Commercial Locum within the Commercial Legal Team.

Berkshire

Legal Business Partner to two of five Business Divisions.

England, Uk

• Qualified in April 2006 and took up a post as Assistant Solicitor in the Corporate Commercial Depart’s IP Team at Blake Lapthorn (now Blake Morgan).• Completed training contract at Attwater & Liell - seats taken included Commercial and Litigation.

Post Graduate Degree, Law - Legal Practice

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb), Law

Awarded University Prize Acknowledged for exemplary performance on the LLB Labour Law and International Law modules