Donna Abbott Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

Working for 3 Partners, 1 senior associate, 4 associates within Financial Services, Banking and Tax• Arranging both internal and external meetings by organising diaries, venues and refreshments if needed.• Registering associates for seminars and conferences, creating relevant reminders and preparing any documents or packs as necessary.• Arranging lunches internally and with clients.• Dealing with highly confidential documents and maintaining discretion at all times.• Printing out prebills to send to accounts for invoices to be raised. Sending out the billing letters and updating the group monthly billing tracker.• Audio typing documents, letters and emails.• Amending documents and proof reading them to make sure there are no errors.• Archiving and filing (electronic and hard copy).• Liaising with conflicts and producing new client and matter forms and engagement letters;• Using Interaction to add contacts and producing searches.• Expenses.• Organising travel/trips within the UK and abroad (US and Europe).• Updating partners/associates’ Interaction contacts and adding to marketing/working lists.• Amend highly important and confidential documents, clean up the metadata, put into house style.• Screening and dealing with emails where appropriate when associates are out of the office or unavailable.• Critical date diary management.• Dealing with time management system, Carpe Diem, to ensure associates’ time is up to date.• A SuperUser for Word 2010 - this involves helping anyone on the floor or any other floor, if needed, from partner level down with any Word issues they may have.• Other secretarial/admin duties when required.

Bexleyheath, Kent

I worked there on a temporary basis.

Canary Wharf, London

Clifford Chance is established as one of the leading global corporate practices.With their balance of international presence, depth of experience, skills and resource, and sector focus and expertise, they advise clients on their strategic and challenging transactions across all the major markets and in many cases with, multi-jurisdictional dimensions. They represent many of the world's leading international and national corporations, financial institutions and sponsors on the largest and most innovative transactions across the globe – from public takeovers, mergers and cross border acquisitions to strategic alliances, joint ventures, outsourcings and restructurings. I worked for a team of 5 people from Partner level to paralegal within the Corporate Finance department which dealt mainly in M&A and PE.My responsibilities included:• arranging meetings - both external and internal;• amending documents; SPA's, Legal Review Reports, Due Diligence Reports;• using Visio for structure charts and PowerPoint for presentations;• being a superuser for their contacts database - Interaction; and• various other secretarial/admin duties