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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 training and playbooks), product development, fundraising/deal rooms, exit planning, IP protection and enforcement, disputes… Show more 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 training and playbooks), product development, fundraising/deal rooms, exit planning, IP protection and enforcement, disputes, GDPR/DPA/privacy compliance and HR. Legal process streamlining and scale expert – commercial agreement template reductions (combining 4 templates into 1), red-line and exception management reduction, reduced deal turn-around timeframes (from negotiation to close), reduced MoM legal costs per vertical, internal and external self-serve agreement process development and implementation.Pro-bono commercial business and legal advisory services to women and underrepresented minority founders of pre-Series A companies. Show less

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 understand - what product ingredients contain, what they do and why they appear in products.• 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 consumers and their right to know - and understand - what product ingredients contain, what they do and why they appear in products.• 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 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 the top 10 global retailers and 2 of the top 10 global brands – and without any marketing budget or outreach.• 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.• Built proprietary ingredient normalisation and taxonomy system that combines technology, science and law to score, rank and prioritise products based on individual needs and preferences – with 11.6 m total ingredients, 270k raw ingredient names, 27k disambiguated core ingredients, 1 mil products, 200k brands with 85% automatic ingredient parsing rate – with a highly customisable B2B front end and CMS for ingredient descriptions and versioning. Applied for 2 patents.• Awards included Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 (Digital Ladies), Pure Beauty Awards 2018, Google For Startups 2018 cohort, Mayor of London's London Business Growth Programme Autumn 2019 cohort (€10k award), Silicon Valley Bank's London GrowthHub Programme 2019 cohort. Show less

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 sports programming, content licensing, monetisation, marketing, IP, sponsorship and branded content.• Drafted harmonised legal templates to reduce contractual differences across multiple jurisdictions, developed supplementary explanatory material and delivered team training for… Show more • 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 sports programming, content licensing, monetisation, marketing, IP, sponsorship and branded content.• 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 teams. For example, with respect to YouTube, rights management training was given to the legal team, a minimum guarantee framework was prepared and rolled out across the business, a legal-only resource page was developed and commercial negotiation fall-backs, guidance notes, escalation paths and mantras (Google’s key internal commercial positions) were produced for use across EMEA.• 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 contracts agreed by Google following a French government driven negotiation. • 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 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 rolled out over the life of the business – including B2C, B2B and B2E commercial agreement templates and roll out, pre-launch user flows and back-end due diligence, IP protections, terms of service, privacy policies, internal and external guidance notes, regulatory risk advice and registrations, compliance checklists, marketing materials, audit frameworks and escalation paths for regulatory and consumer risk mitigation.• 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 (online and offline), data and tech service providers. This often included taking the legal and commercial lead.• Data protection, privacy and IP regulatory responsibility including registrations, licensing, management, policies and procedures and internal training and compliance. • Financial services regulatory structuring and compliance across a new area (online comparison and aggregation) that was unfamiliar to the regulator (both as an Authorised Firm, Authorised Representative and Controlled Functions). Show less

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 extensive recommendations to the board to as to how the existing issues could be successfully resolved and proposed future processes for… Show more 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 extensive recommendations to the board to as to how the existing issues could be successfully resolved and proposed future processes for the company to implement to avoid any reoccurrences. Show less

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 restructure. Management of James Hardie's global IP portfolio.

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 industry. Project Role. Joint venture wind up

Melbourne, Australia