• Senior corporate finance and venture capital lawyer with blue chip experience in London, New York and internationally.• Co-founder and Managing Partner of Anthem Advisory, an independent legal and business advisory firm based in London.• Vice Chair and Independent Non-Executive Director of Emerging Africa Capital Advisory, the pan-African investment bank.LAW FIRM PRACTICEI practiced at the law firms Sullivan & Cromwell and Rogers & Wells, advising investment banks, fund managers, corporate clients and private investors on capital markets transactions in the UK and EMEA.BOARD EXPERIENCEI currently serve as Vice Chair and Independent Non-Executive Director of the Board of Emerging Africa Capital Advisory, the investment banking arm of Emerging Capital Africa Group, which provides integrated investment banking, asset management, and trustee services across Africa. In addition, I am a member of the Group's Risk Management and Compliance Committee.While at Renaissance Capital, I served as Company Secretary of the FCA regulated investment bank, Executive Director of several subsidiaries, and a member of the Group Risk Committee and Group Audit Committee, providing strategic oversight and advice across several business lines.GENERAL COUNSELI also spent six years in senior leadership roles at Renaissance Capital, the emerging markets investment bank based in London. As Executive Director and Head of Legal, I helped develop and execute the firm’s strategy and its expansion to seven countries in EMEA while managing the legal and compliance teams in those regions. I also provided strategic counsel on complex restructuring transactions involving various businesses within the Renaissance Group.Before joining Renaissance Capital, I spent four years at Merrill Lynch, as a Director and Head of Equity Capital Markets Legal in London and General Counsel of Merrill Lynch South Africa in Johannesburg.FINTECHI was also a Co-Founder and Director of Emerging Crowd, the London-based fintech firm. European FinTech Top 100 winner in 2016, the firm advised and raised capital for SMEs in the UK, Africa and Asia.QUALIFICATIONSI graduated from Harvard University and Fordham Law School and am admitted to the New York Bar.lucien@anthemadvisory.com