Experience

Aspen Legal

• Venezuela
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Dec 2020 - Present

  Aspen Legal has arrived. We are a commercial law firm and legal secondments business with a fresh approach to legal services. We don’t just provide high calibre legal services – they’re a given. We make engaging with us simple. Give us an assignment. Deal with a single, accountable decision-maker from start to finish. We will meet or exceed your timing, cost and quality expectations. Aspen Legal has arrived. We are a commercial law firm and legal secondments business with a fresh approach to legal services. We don’t just provide high calibre legal services – they’re a given. We make engaging with us simple. Give us an assignment. Deal with a single, accountable decision-maker from start to finish. We will meet or exceed your timing, cost and quality expectations.



LOD (formerly lexvoco)

• Head of LOD Legal | Principal | General Manager, Victoria

  • Oct 2015 - Jul 2020

  lexvoco was a New Law start up business that placed lawyers on secondment into in house legal teams as well as operating as a law firm. I was a shareholder and General Manager at Iexvoco when it was purchased in 2019 by LOD, a global New Law business owned by UK private equity house, Bowmark. Following Iexvoco’s acquisition, I headed LOD Legal, the law firm business in Australia, and sat on the Australian executive team. I remain a shareholder and director of LOD New Zealand which I co-founded in 2016.



Transpacific Industries Group

• Australia

• Senior Legal Counsel

  • Jan 2015 - Oct 2015

  - Primary legal counsel for the largest business unit in the Transpacific Group - Responsible for the full range of operational issues across both collections and the post-collections businesses including commercial, infrastructure construction, procurement, logistics, sponsorship and tenders - Managing health and safety issues including interface with regulators - Negotiating services and infrastructure construction agreements directly with counterparties - ACCC, Australian Consumer Law and other regulatory compliance



BP Australia

• Australia
• Oil and Gas

• Senior Legal Counsel ANZ

  • Feb 2014 - Jan 2015

  - Sole legal counsel for the Castrol Australia business - Legal advisor to the procurement, commercial mining and shared services teams - ACCC and regulatory compliance - Marketing, sponsorship, route to market and trademark advice - Product quality and manufacturing advice - Sole legal counsel for the Castrol Australia business - Legal advisor to the procurement, commercial mining and shared services teams - ACCC and regulatory compliance - Marketing, sponsorship, route to market and trademark advice - Product quality and manufacturing advice



Diageo plc

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Regional Legal Counsel - Africa and Southeast Asia

  • 2006 - Jan 2014

  Regional Counsel Southeast Asia (2011 - 2014) Regional Counsel Africa (2006 - 2011) including secondment as Legal Director Brandhouse Beverages Pty Ltd (South Africa) - Primary legal counsel for AUD$ one billion business encompassing diverse markets in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. - Exercise critical judgement and risk management of Diageo's regional activities including international sales, manufacturing, route to market, advertising and promotion and new market entry. - Mergers and acquisition experience includes due diligence on asset acquisitions in Africa and negotiating buy out of JV partners in multiple jurisdictions. - Lead and coach in-market legal teams, member of executive leadership team and various boards of directors in Asia and Africa.



Addleshaw Goddard

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Litigation Associate

  • 2000 - 2006

  - Cross-border commercial litigation role, with a focus on white-collar fraud and asset recovery. - Secondment to the Assets Recovery Agency (now Serious Organised Crime Agency) - Cross-border commercial litigation role, with a focus on white-collar fraud and asset recovery. - Secondment to the Assets Recovery Agency (now Serious Organised Crime Agency)



Buddle Findlay

• New Zealand
• Law Practice
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Litigation Associate

  • 1997 - 1999

  - Advised on liquidations and bankruptcies, Companies Act compliance and debt recovery including appearing more than one hundred times as an advocate in the District and High Courts of New Zealand. - Advised on liquidations and bankruptcies, Companies Act compliance and debt recovery including appearing more than one hundred times as an advocate in the District and High Courts of New Zealand.