Deborah Walker Email & Phone Number

Strategy advisor and counsel to venture capital/PE investors, start-up tech entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 multinationals in EMEA and international NGOs. Experienced at launching, managing and exiting companies, investing in clean tech early stage companies, and founder of own companies in Europe and USA. Work with universities and NGOs builds tech entrepreneurship capacity, global partnerships, and public-private projects supporting sustainability (ESG) and climate finance. M&A counsel to private equity FDI sources in frontier markets, general counsel to European manufacturing subsidiaries of US publicly-listed companies as well as in-house counsel to global fintech payment solution business. Successful record of leading IP litigation in Asia and southeastern/central Europe as Vienna based in-house and outside counsel to US global consumer brands and software companies. As external counsel have managed law firms' multi-country international practices and served as start-up manager and troubleshooter for investors and their portfolio companies. As a practitioner instructor, enjoy working with grad students in the area of ecological governance--that examines innovative ways to help industry and civil society decrease social and environmental risks in supply chains and enable climate- and gender- resilient growth.