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London, United Kingdom

Providing a flexible In-House Legal Counsel service for various pre-Series C tech companies (AI, data, SaaS, PaaS, AdTech, cloud, managed and outsourced services, R&D). Advising on all legal, operations and compliance issues faced by growing tech business including commercial agreements (structuring, negotiating, process streamlining and scaling, internal.

London, United Kingdom

• EVRELAB is a SaaS platform which helps brands and retailers with their own trust and transparency initiatives. It brings science, law and business closer together to better serve consumers and their right to know - and.
• Secured £1 mil funding (both from angels and institutional investors) following a B2C MVP launch with 30k+ downloads in the UK, AU & NZ.
• Launched B2B SaaS MVP with… Show more EVRELAB is a SaaS platform which helps brands and retailers with their own trust and transparency initiatives. It brings science, law and business closer together to better serve.
• Launched B2B SaaS MVP with Feelunique (Europe’s largest BPC online retailer) servicing over 3 mil monthly data requests for EVRELAB content. Within 6 months following launch, we were approached for partnerships by 3 of.
• Defined with key stakeholders (lead investor and board), then achieved our KPIs to underpin a £2 mil+ follow on investment round and Innovate UK grant funding (with an application score of 82.04%).
• Created, communicated and implemented the product vision and business strategy, operational and fiscal strategy (doing more with less), company culture across 5 countries and high performing management team.

London, United Kingdom

• EMEA legal lead for YouTube Premium Content licensing, YouTube Sports licensing, Google TV and AdExchange products such complex content acquisition and distribution agreements, partnerships, live stream events and.
• Drafted harmonised legal templates to reduce contractual differences across multiple jurisdictions, developed supplementary explanatory material and delivered team training for… Show more
• Drafted harmonised legal templates to reduce contractual differences across multiple jurisdictions, developed supplementary explanatory material and delivered team training for use across the EMEA legal and commercial.
• Negotiated, drafted and advised the business on many complex, bespoke, high-value, multi-jurisdictional transactions. For example, acted as legal lead for a commercial complex and highly technical suite of AdExchange.
• Recipient of 7 peer bonus awards for the provision of outstanding legal services. Show less

London, United Kingdom

• Founding General Counsel, Board Member and key member of the executive team - with a brief to facilitate a frictionless exit for the business (£37 mil sale to Google). Responsible for:
• Strategy development and leadership for all legal, regulatory, intellectual property, HR and operations functions across the business.
• Oversaw 6 regulated financial services product launches (B2C, B2B and B2E) - all without legal or regulatory problems, along with significant product enhancements… Show more Founding General Counsel, Board Member and.
• Oversaw 6 regulated financial services product launches (B2C, B2B and B2E) - all without legal or regulatory problems, along with significant product enhancements rolled out over the life of the business – including.
• Partnered with the C+ team to draft and negotiate key agreements and commercial transactions including key white label partnerships, insurance providers, banks, lenders, financial advisors, marketing and advertising.
• Data protection, privacy and IP regulatory responsibility including registrations, licensing, management, policies and procedures and internal training and compliance.

London, United Kingdom

Williams Lea is a leading global provider of outsourced customised corporate information solutions to many of the world’s leading organisations, primarily financial institutions. Project Role. Lead for Williams Lea’s technology infrastructure restructure (WAN, co-location and managed services), identified key legal issues requiring resolution, provided.

Electronic Arts. (EA) is one of the world's leading independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for advanced entertainment systems. Project Role. Lead for implementation of its global tax restructure across Europe in accordance with tax rulings obtained in Switzerland, The Netherlands and Bermuda.

Amsterdam

Weidema van Tol is a law firm specialising in international and corporate tax law and in particular, tax-driven restructuring of US multinationals.Project Role. Implementation of bespoke international tax restructures for private commercial clients across 25 jurisdictions (clients included 3M Company and Bowne & Co. Inc.).

Amsterdam

James Hardie Industries N.V. (as it was at the time) was the parent company of the James Hardie group and an ASX and NYSE listed company. James Hardie is a specialist fibre cement building products developer which during the relevant time, generated revenue in excess of AUD$1.5 billion per year.Implementation of the global intellectual property and tax.

Amsterdam

eAECglobal Holding B.V. was a joint venture between two multi-national construction services companies, Skanska of Sweden and Hochtief of Germany, (with revenues at the time of SEK 121 billion and EUR 11.94 billion per year respectively). The aim of the joint venture was to develop an internet platform for the procurement process in the construction.

Melbourne, Australia