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• Negotiating, drafting and advising on a wide range of commercial agreements;• Management of commercial/legal activities on bids and projects;• Regular training and updates to business teams regarding commercial contractual provisions;• Management of key stakeholders during contractual escalations; • Assisting in the review and assessment of commercial disputes; • Monitoring developments in local legislation and best practice, in order to update standard forms and playbooks accordingly; and • Ad-hoc legal advice on day to day issues.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Providing advice and direction on corporate compliance and privacy issues across the organization and EMEA in particular;• Negotiating, drafting and advising on privacy and compliance provisions within customer and supplier agreements;• Developing and maintaining privacy and compliance policies, portals, registers and records; • Completion of privacy and compliance impact assessments;• Due diligence and evaluation of compliance and privacy matters in support of potential mergers and acquisitions;• Integrating acquisitions in accordance with the organisation’s compliance and privacy policies and strategies; • Development and implementation of global privacy compliance activities, projects and strategies (anti-corruption, GDPR, modern slavery etc.);• Identification, evaluation and management of potential compliance and privacy risks in a way that enables the organisation to deliver sustainable business growth;• Management of key stakeholders to ensure support of compliance and privacy programmes and objectives;• Assisting the business teams in responding to customer privacy and compliance questionnaires and audits; • Management of regulatory filings, approval and renewals for EMEA (data protection registrations (pre-GDPR), DPO filings, SRA filings etc.); • Third party due diligence and evaluation; • Monitoring developments in regional regulatory and legislative change and best practice and advising the wider organization on necessary organizational changes required; and• Ad-hoc legal advice on privacy and compliance matters.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

A senior position within the Commercial & Legal department of a growing engineering and technology based Service Company within the Oil and Gas industry dealing the provision of goods and services on and offshore.Day to day responsibility for negotiating, drafting and advising on a wide range of high value domestic and international commercial agreements and managing commercial/legal activities on bids and projects.During my time, I was involved in a global initiative to review and redefine current processes and procedures within the commercial/legal function, creating a clear procedure and framework for the contracts function, allowing for improved efficiencies in the contract service offered and transparency across the region to allow collaboration across sites through contract frame agreements.I also led a project that involved the implementation of a centralised contracts database in order to provide proficient contract management and commercial awareness of our current agreements and ongoing commercial management of agreements in place.

Diploma In Professional Legal Practice, Law

Master Of Laws (Llm), Oil And Gas Law

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb)