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London, United Kingdom

Lux Nova Partner is a boutique law firm focusing exclusively on clean energy project and clients working on the transition to a net zero economy. We are a team of experienced lawyers who are purpose driven, delivering high quality advice with transparency on fees. I advise on commercial, technology, IP, data protection and environmental law for businesses.

London, United Kingdom

• Providing advice and project leadership on strategy, operations, procurement, training and stakeholder engagement in the areas of:
• Sustainability strategy
• Environmental and data risk management, law & policy
• Clean energy technologiesWorking primarily with commercial real estate investors and lenders and organisations developing technology solutions to address energy and environmental challenges.

London, United Kingdom

Astrid is an online platform designed to help small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) protect the personal data they hold and meet the requirements of data protection and privacy laws.

London, United Kingdom

EnergyDeck enables organisations to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and enhance occupant health and well-being.EnergyDeck is an Internet of Things platform that captures the entire range of energy, resource and environmental data relating to the built environment. Users benefit from highly flexible data management, automatic performance benchmarking and.

London, United Kingdom

Buildings and the way we operate businesses in them have a huge potential to improve human health and wellbeing. Global trends in health, fitness and wellbeing are now taking hold in commercial real estate sector. Anyone who operates a business or is involved in the real estate supply chain needs to keep abreast of the rapid developments in this area. We.

London, United Kingdom

Demand Logic is a company using big data analytics to discover energy savings and performance improvements in commercial buildings. It has developed technology that enables a simple, fast and resilient interface with the existing "building management system" and analyses the vast amounts of data available. It provides innovative cloud based analytics and.

London, United Kingdom

Leading development and market delivery of the Crowd’s transformative digital initiative, the Curve. Key responsibilities are managing product development, resolving commercial and legal set-up issues and customer/partner engagement with energy & sustainability teams within large organisations. The Curve helps organisations go faster and smarter on their.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Advising on content for Pan-European event on Sustainable Cities in Brussels in October 2015. Where public and private leaders meet to move from words to action.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for sustainability at GE Capital Real Estate, the commercial real estate investment arm of General Electric. I designed the sustainability strategy and led programs addressing operations, refurbishment and transactions across a multi-billion dollar property portfolio covering UK, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Central Europe. I also.

London, United Kingdom

• Led the EHS Risk Management Team of a property investment business on acquisitions and divestitures spanning 12 EU countries and closing over $5BN acquisitions per year. Key responsibilities were environmental due.
• Advising & influencing senior leadership team on business impacts of rising sustainability agenda.
• Managing government relations and industry partnerships on sustainability issues.
• Providing legal and risk management advice to various GE industrial businesses on issues such as contaminated land, soil and groundwater remediation, asbestos, accident investigation and transaction documentation.

London, United Kingdom

Legal advice and contract drafting for commercial & technology projects, including intellectual property advice, website contracts, services agreements, sale of goods contracts plus extensive negotiation and drafting of outsourcing agreements.

London, United Kingdom

• Providing full range of legal services for environmental aspects of client businesses covering:
• Advisory and drafting work for retailers, banks, energy & water utilities, property owners and government departments on issues such as waste, contaminated land, industrial permitting, asbestos, hazardous substances.
• Transactional work on corporate and property deals, including drafting warranties and indemnities, appointment of environment consultants, due diligence and insurance.
• Litigation including civil claims, criminal prosecutions and judicial reviews.In addition to fee-earning work, I set up CMS’ communities & pro bono program including school mentoring scheme, numbers scheme and charity.

London, United Kingdom

Working as trainees solicitor in 5 departments of a large international law firm: insolvency litigation, banking, insurance litigation, environmental and corporate.

B.A.(Hons), Law

Ll.M., Comparative Law

Diploma In Legal Practice, Legal Practice, Distinction