Corporate Counsel
Bracknell, Uk
Commercial lawyer supporting EMEA region and UK & I sales teams.EMEA EG Indirect Counsel (August 2011 - November 2015)A broad role supporting the EMEA Enterprise Group Indirect management team & routes to market (i.e Distributors, Resellers, Alliances, OEMs, Service Providers, Technology Services channel). Experience includes: negotiation of strategic funding agreements with partners; collaboration with WW colleagues on new OEM and CloudAgile Agreements; WW taskforce on global SIs; EMEA grey market.Legal Counsel UK&I (Oct 2004 –July 2011)At various times responsible for supporting the UK & I printing and PC businesses. From August 2010 – July 2011, lead UK lawyer for both. Broad range of experience including channel work, deal support and managing disputes. Highlights include:• Negotiated the Master Partner Agreement with global partners BT and Accenture, Retail Framework Agreement with DSG Retail Limited & Customer Purchase agreement with RBS.• Chair of the European Competition Law Group from April 2008 to November 2009. Led the EMEA FY08 dawn raid refresh program & coordinated UK dawn raid procedures (including practice dawn raid for management in 2009). • Managed trade mark infringement cases against Expansys UK Limited and D&P Data Systems Limited.