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Providing freelance commercial legal services to clients nationwide. I spent the first six months of 2016 on assignment with Manchester United Limited, providing commercial contracts advice to this iconic football club and media brand. From July 2016 to the end of March 2017, I was on assignment at Wolseley UK Limited, the FTSE-100 building material distributor working on a wide variety of commercial matters for the company at its head office in Leamington Spa. I spent the remainder of 2017 providing corporate legal and company secretarial services across Europe for XPO Logistics. Between August 2017 and August 2018, I worked with Expedia.com Limited as an integral part of their legal team, working on marketing and technology procurement deals throughout EMEA. I worked with Centrica plc on IT procurement matters between September 2018 and May 2019. Since June 2019, I have been supporting GKN Aerospace Limited and other members of its Group on a global procurement initiative.

Senior legal counsel to the operations division of this FTSE-250 listed insurance and investment management group, which operates through a network of outsourced service providers • Lead lawyer on the 10-year outsourcing of the group’s IT provision into a private cloud solution, working in a cross-disciplinary team• Devising and managing a tender and selection process for selection of a new legal services partner for the business, which is delivering improved levels of service at reduced cost• Handling day-to-day legal issues arising from its outsourced operations, providing solutions-driven commercial advice to non-legal colleagues, includingo Data protection advice, particularly off-shoring issueso Contract interpretationo Negotiation of contract changeso Dispute resolution advice

Principal legal and corporate administration manager for this listed contractor and manufacturer of engineering and building products, reporting to the Group Finance Director: • Acting as Secretary to UK group subsidiaries• Leading the closure of the company’s defined benefit pension scheme to future accruals to meet business-critical timings• Drafting a portfolio of sales agency, manufacturing and distribution contracts for use in the company’s US business, including managing US lawyers• Responsibility for managing the Group’s IP portfolio, including patents and trade marks• Advising the company’s contracting business on sales contracts and guarantees • Responsibility for ensuring compliance with company legislation and the FSA’s continuing obligations regime• Project managing production of the Annual Report and AGM• Managing share-based incentive schemes• Insurance portfolio renewals and claims management

I joined this pan-European provider of logistics services as a member of the in-house legal team, progressing to the role of Assistant Company Secretary and ultimately to the post of UK Corporate Secretary, heading the UK corporate legal function. Duties and achievements included: • Working with sales and operations teams in drafting and negotiating outsourced logistics contracts for major Customers in a variety of sectors and jurisdictions• Negotiating agreements with suppliers to the business, including IT and consultancy appointments • Leading the legal function on the c £48 million sale and leaseback of part of the company’s property portfolio • Acting as a lead in-house lawyer on a recommended take-over of the Christian Salvesen business by the French-based Groupe Norbert Dentressangle SA via a scheme of arrangement under s 425 Companies Act 1985, including de-listing the business • Leading on the post-acquisition re-structuring of the former Salvesen group in the UK and Europe to tight business-driven deadlines, including both corporate entity and property portfolio re-structuring• Company secretary to the business and its UK subsidiaries• Managing the company’s several pension schemes and shared-based incentive plans• Director of the company’s non-trading UK subsidiaries and of its captive insurer in the Isle of Man• Trustee of the company’s pension defined benefit and defined contribution pension funds, working with the company on a substantial deficit restructuring programme• Management of the Group’s IP portfolio, confidentiality and data protection issues• Prior to the Salvesen Group’s de-listing, had day to day responsibility for the company secretarial function, including Listing Rules and FSA compliance, leading the production of the Annual Report and attending Annual General Meeting• Managed a small team

Member of the legal team at this FTSE-30 support services company, with particular responsibility for its facilities management business units, working closely with multi-disciplinary bid teams. • Advising on high-value hard and soft facilities management tenders and contracts for a variety of industry clients • Drafting and negotiating a wide variety of outsourced catering agreements, supporting both industrial, retail and fine dining customers of Compass Group • Negotiating a new £200 million agreement for the distribution of chilled and frozen foods to Compass Group’s entire catering estate, including the acquisition and re-sale of a supplier’s business• Drafting and advising upon a number of franchise agreements supporting Compass Group’s retail food service businesses • Dealing with a number of claims and disputes, achieving satisfactory settlements without recourse to litigation • Advising on a new employee-benefits programme, including drafting and negotiating contracts with service providers and reviewing scheme documentation for regulatory compliance• Brand protection and licensing of IP rights, including patent management

Member of the commercial team, advising UK and overseas clients in a wide variety of sectors on:• Supply chain contracts • Logistics and distribution agreements • Outsourcing and facilities management agreements• Joint venture agreements• Franchise Agreements• Support to M&A transactions• Contentious and non-contentious construction workUndertook a five-month secondment to the in-house legal department of manufacturing client in the transport sectorSpeaker at a number of client seminars on contractual and procurement issues