Richard is dual qualified lawyer (South Africa and United Kingdom) with 15 years international experience in law firms and corporates. Richard's experience covers infrastructure (PPP) projects, corporate, M&A, with the last 8 years in banking and finance at Standard Bank's Corporate and Investment Banking division. Here, Richard ran the legal function for Africa and then moved into running an international legal team for commodity trading. Richard's skills include transactional work, risk management and people management. Richard has very good lateral thinking and problem solving abilities, very good commercial acumen, and works very well with people. Richard is highly motivated and independent. Excellent problem solving and lateral thinking abilities and very strong commercial acumen with excellent negotiation skills Richard has had a strong focus on emerging markets for the last 8 years.