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Investing for over 25 years in the legal sector as a serial investor, supporting startups, buying business's, creating mergers, funding, and advising those seeking rapid growth.He now has a portfolio of Chairmanships, Non-executive positions, directorships, investments, and advisor positions the latter usually as Chief Vision Officer in companies that wish to scale up. Provides private finance to companies that wish to grow in legal and its related sectors with a focus on delivering growth and shareholder returns, whilst enhancing the customer journey experience through new technology.Created/Built/Modelled/Scaled up/Exited mutiple legal businesses.Objective to drive scale, support the C Suite, provide innovation and transformation in the legal sector through investments, whilst creating value for shareholders and partners.Offering support services from risk, compliance, legal, finance function and auditing. Remains invested, working with or advising multiple legal businesses across UK and Australia.Well, known in the legal sector for innovation, Buy and Build, scale up alongside his investments. Has bought many legal firms, undertaken mergers, and created consultancy modelling. Has taken PE backing alongside, delivering his own seed funding and follow on funding initiatives.In 2019 instigated the coming together of Taylor Rose/McMillan Williams in 2020 in Covid to create AIIC Group, in turn becoming its Co-Founder. Invested in first round then in 2021 invested circa 5m in AIIC via SAP as second round funding. In 2023 invested in the Squid Group of companies via SAP. In 2023 AIIC Group was listed as a Sunday Times top 100 growth company and entered the Australian market.In 2023 extended the automation model and invested in multiple tech startups. In 2024 Estate Agency was added to Squid Group, now built around a stack model. Funded multiple new startups.Alongside these roles remain a complex litigation trial lawyer and a speaker.

Listed skills include Litigation, Legal Advice, Legal Assistance, Professional Negligence, and 35 others.