Experience

Pinnacle Pet Group

• United Kingdom
• Insurance
• 200 - 300 Employee

• General Counsel

  • Mar 2006 - Present

  Cardif Pinnacle is a Life and General Insurance company and a member of the BNP Paribas group. I joined Cardif Pinnacle as Head of Legal at the Group’s main UK office and became General Counsel in June 2010. Main areas of responsibility include: • Management of the Heads of the Legal, Compliance, Business Risk & Controls, Solvency II (Risk & Governance) and Customer Relations Departments, and company secretariat • Provide legal advice to the Boards and/or senior management of the Group on a wide variety of legal, regulatory or risk related issues and oversee the progress of routine legal work conducted within the legal department • Act as an escalation point for all contentious and non-contentious complex legal matters arising within the legal department • Provide reports on significant legal and regulatory developments affecting Group Companies to General Counsel of BNP Paribas London, BNP Paribas Cardif Paris and relevant committees • Instruct and manage external lawyers and oversee external legal spend • Fulfil the FSA CF10 (Compliance Oversight) and CF11 (MLRO) controlled functions for Cardif Pinnacle Group companies • Chair group Internal Controls Committees and attend and support the objectives of the Audit, Risk and Solvency II Committees • Company Secretary for the Group



Bank of Ireland

• Ireland
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Legal Business Banking GB

  • Aug 1999 - Feb 2006

  Engaged as Head of Legal at the Bank of Ireland's main London office reporting to the senior management team in the UK and also to the Head of Group Legal in Dublin. The role involved providing advice on a wide variety of contentious and non-contentious legal matters and managing the in house legal function with four direct reports. Expertise in the following areas: • Sales and acquisitions • Product launches • Consumer credit • Data Protection • Finance and security documentation • E-commerce and IT licences and agreements • Suppliers and general trading agreements • Customer documentation and advertising/marketing materials • Conveyancing of branches, leasehold surrenders and renewals, dilapidation claims and rent renewals • Non-routine litigation including banking disputes, property, insolvency or regulatory issues



Harris & Cartwright

• Associate

  • 1995 - 1999

  Joined the firm as an assistant solicitor to advise upon a range of legal/commercial matters including formation and purchase of companies and unincorporated businesses; capital restructuring; shareholder and partnership agreements; joint ventures; finance; mortgages, debentures, guarantees and other secured lending; banking; IT related agreements and licences; intellectual property licensing; general commercial contracts; commercial property; insolvency and winding up; general commercial litigation.