Experience

The Surpluss

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of business development UK

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  The Surpluss is a B2B ecosystem that unlocks your hidden potential to become more climate intelligent with a few clicks. The Surpluss is a B2B ecosystem that unlocks your hidden potential to become more climate intelligent with a few clicks.



Pidge

• United Kingdom
• Events Services

• Head Of Business Development

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  Pidge is a disruptive networking platform, uniquely benefitting: Businesses of all sizes Freelancers at differing levels And….. World-wide event organisers. We connect businesses seeking international exposure and expertise, to remote networking representatives ("Pidges"​) with the right industry experience and knowledge, who can represent corporate clients at global gatherings. This will be done via event companies, who can provide suitable venues for the networking exposure to take place. We are an interactive platform, not an agency, yet we have the internal capability to screen "Pidges"​ according to client’s specific needs, ensuring complete satisfaction on all sides - from project brief, through to post-event follow up between clients and "Pidges"​. For more information please see our website http://www.getpidge.com



Lyfeline App

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Head Of Business Development

  • Jan 2019 - Present



Ognio

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Business Development

  • Aug 2018 - Present

  Ognio is a virtual platform that, based on geospatial proximity, seeks to coordinate civil society in order to address complex, global issues. Ognio harnesses the collective power of geospatial proximity by sparking connections between neighbours in hyperlocals. These hyperlocals are residential locations within the urban built environment where people live within close proximity to each other, such as apartment buildings and (geographically defined) housing zones. Ognio is a virtual platform that, based on geospatial proximity, seeks to coordinate civil society in order to address complex, global issues. Ognio harnesses the collective power of geospatial proximity by sparking connections between neighbours in hyperlocals. These hyperlocals are residential locations within the urban built environment where people live within close proximity to each other, such as apartment buildings and (geographically defined) housing zones.



Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Funds team (FTC)

  • Jun 2018 - Dec 2018

  Whilst working in the Funds team, I assisted associates and partners in the preparation of very large private equity fundraising transactions; the total value of the various fundraisings I assisted on came to USD$15 billion (over a 6 month period). The firm acted as counsel to various private equity funds. The role consisted of assisting with investor AML clearance related tasks, including liaising with high net worth individual investors, corporate investors, national pension funds and sovereign wealth funds and their respective legal counsels; producing Subscription Agreement response memoranda in response to investor requests for specific amendments; drafting and amending investor side letters, taking investors through the drafting and execution of Subscription Agreements; collating and updating investor tracker spreadsheets, uploading execution version side letters and subscription agreements to the document management platform for countersignature at closing; liaising with in-house ERISA and US securities specialists, dealing with and negotiating escrow conditions with the various investor legal counsels; updating associates on various investor legal documentation and liaising with the various fund representatives in order to ensure that each fund raise proceeded to a timely, efficient close.



ADAMS & REMERS LLP

• United Kingdom
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Corporate law (permanent)

  • Oct 2016 - Nov 2017

  Assisting partners and lawyers on the following matters; - Corporate M&A (share and asset sale transactions); - AIM Listings; - Equity fundraisings; - PLC and LTD company share placing transactions; - Research into MAR (Market Abuse Regulation) and particularly its impact on AIM Companies; - Share subscription/fundraising rounds; drafting of individual investor subscription agreements, deeds of adherence to new shareholder agreement, written resolutions, amendments to articles of association of the company; - Share sale transactions; completion board minutes for target, seller and purchaser entities, completion of front end of disclosure letter, drafting of; director resignation letters, indemnity for lost share certificates, stock transfer forms; - Dealing with post fundraising and post completion matters; - Creating and/or updating company statutory books; - Company secretarial service to clients; completion and submission of Confirmation Statements and submission of completed statutory accounts; - New company formations; - Creation of and updating of PSC registers for relevant companies; - Completion and submission of various UK Companies House forms; AP01, TM01, AD01, MR01, MR04, SH01, SH08, CS01, Statutory Accounts etc.



Rio Tinto

• United Kingdom
• Mining
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investigations team

  • Sep 2016 - Oct 2016

  Internal corporate investigation; assisting the Head of Group Investigations as part of a team investigating allegations of breaches of Business Integrity Standard policies; breaches of Sponsorship and Donations policy, Procurement Policy, Recruitment Policy and Expenses Policy. Collating information for analysis and forwarding to external parties, creation of secure folder structure for an online secure data store. Internal corporate investigation; assisting the Head of Group Investigations as part of a team investigating allegations of breaches of Business Integrity Standard policies; breaches of Sponsorship and Donations policy, Procurement Policy, Recruitment Policy and Expenses Policy. Collating information for analysis and forwarding to external parties, creation of secure folder structure for an online secure data store.



FTI Consulting

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• French/English financial services (audio review)

  • Jul 2016 - Sep 2016

  LIBOR linked litigation; review of trader communications in French and English for redaction of confidential client information LIBOR linked litigation; review of trader communications in French and English for redaction of confidential client information



Redington

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• In-house Commercial/Compliance

  • Jan 2016 - May 2016



Baker McKenzie

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Financial Services Dispute Resolution paralegal (temp)

  • Oct 2015 - Dec 2015



Eastlink Lanker

• United Kingdom
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Corporate paralegal (FTC)

  • Jul 2015 - Sep 2015

  • Drafting of board minutes and resolutions in relation to an amendment and restatement agreement relating to a tender agreement between the company and foreign entities for the purposes of bidding for contracts to provide bus services in a Middle Eastern country. • Liaising with colleagues in the Dubai International Financial Centre to complete the requisite documents and online procedures in order to renew the group holding company’s commercial lease and commercial license in the Dubai International Financial Centre (“DIFC”) and obtaining the requisite authorised signatory signatures. • Amending x14 Director Indemnity Agreements and obtaining signed original execution pages from the relevant directors. • Drafting Appointment of Alternate Director letters. • Procuring the relevant documents from various directors, issuing the completed board pack and amending the agenda for a meeting of the board of directors. • Familiarisation with two shareholder deeds in respect of the group holding company. • Verifying the articles of association for the company. • Working under and assisting the in-house legal counsel. • Completion of various corporate documents of the company and its numerous international subsidiaries. • Legal research based on Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 and how its new legal requirements would affect our plc company. • Drafting corporate entity self-certification FATCA compliance forms in relation to a BVI Trust. • Comparing two FATCA compliance form 8-BEN-E in relation to a client entity and two international banks. • Drafting letters on company letter head to various institutions enclosing company director executed company agreements. • Verifying the clauses of a corporate guarantee to be provided by a group company in favour of the Egyptian arm of a large global bank. • Arranging for the legalisation of Power of Attorney documents for certain group companies operating in Russia and the DIFC.



BRM Solicitors

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Corporate law paralegal (FTC)

  • Jan 2015 - Jul 2015

  • Assisting with new company formation documentation (Shelf Co to a new ltd company; (Relevant Companies House forms, Share certificate, board minutes) • Reviewing an Investment Agreement and Deed of Adherence; Legal research around distributor agreements • Assisting on a £20 million + Company Share Sale; minutes of client meetings regarding warranties and indemnities in the SPA, earn out provisions, service contracts for directors staying on in the company; Reviewing all client contracts in the data room to see whether any contracts had a change of control clause allowing the customer to terminate the agreement in the event of a sale of our client’s company; • Legal research into whether or not the provisions of the Consumer Credit Act applied to a loan agreement between two parties; Ascertaining the current base rate of interest for a basket of large commercial banks, pursuant to an interest clause in a mortgage contract in order to ascertain the maximum rate of interest permitted in law for such a mortgage contract. • Company searches; Legal research into the requirements for setting up a charity; Drafting a shareholders’ agreement, and emailing it to the client (following amendments from the fee earner); Attending client meetings with the relevant solicitor; Setting up a charitable company; • Reviewing MR01 (registration of a charge) forms before they were sent to Companies House; Communicating with the buyer’s solicitors and drafting the initial responses to enquiries on an asset sale on behalf of a client; • Drafting board minutes, special and ordinary resolutions of the members, completion of form SH01 (for the Return of allotment of shares) in relation to a share allotment of a private company limited by shares; • Review of a partnership agreement for a farm business between a grandfather and his son and a comparison of commentary between two law firms to ascertain which clauses of the agreement still needed further negotiation between the parties.



Shoosmiths

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Corporate law paralegal (FTC)

  • Mar 2014 - Oct 2014

  Assisting solicitors and partners on share sale and asset sale transactions; company search reports; completion of stock transfer forms and share certificates; completion of indemnity for lost share certificates; target board minutes and buyer board minutes in relation to a share sale; completion of forms SH08 (Notice of name or other designation of class of shares) and SH10 (Notice of particulars of variation of rights attached to shares); form DS01 (voluntary strike off application); online submission of form TM01 – removal of a director; Completing a form NM01 ‘Notice of Change of Name’ by resolution and accompanying Justification letter (“Same as” name) from the existing company with same name; verification of Company charges register, director appointment register, verifying Company statutory books; data room preparation tasks.



Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Paralegal, Financial Institutions Dispute Group (FIDG) (TEMPORARY)

  • Dec 2013 - Mar 2014



Taylor Wessing

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Financial Services paralegal (TEMPORARY)

  • Oct 2013 - Nov 2013



Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• French speaking paralegal (TEMPORARY)

  • Sep 2013 - Sep 2013



CAA-GBG Global Brand Management Group

• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Corporate Paralegal (FTC)

  • Jul 2013 - Sep 2013

  • Whilst working in-house, I directly assisted the COO of an international brand licensing company with a large corporate transaction. I helped to create a data room, built a folder structure and transferred large amounts of documents and data into folders. The organisation of company policy documents, contracts, financial statements and others such documents for the group (numerous companies within the group). The collation of HR, IT, Finance, Legal, Tax, Corporate Services and Corporate information from various worldwide company divisions of a brand licensing company in preparation for a large corporate transaction.



O'Melveny & Myers LLP

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Financial services document review paralegal (TEMPORARY)

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2013



Clyde & Co

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Property and Liability Insurance document review paralegal (TEMPORARY)

  • May 2013 - Jun 2013



Slaughter and May

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Commercial litigation paralegal (TEMPORARY)

  • Apr 2013 - May 2013

  Assisting on a Middle East oil and gas pipeline dispute at Arbitration stage. The firm’s client was a European oil and gas commodity trading company. Copy checking files to be used at an Arbitration hearing. Assisting on a Middle East oil and gas pipeline dispute at Arbitration stage. The firm’s client was a European oil and gas commodity trading company. Copy checking files to be used at an Arbitration hearing.



New Street Solutions

• London, United Kingdom

• Document review paralegal (TEMPORARY)

  • Apr 2013 - Apr 2013

  Indexing and checking invoices and order forms. Reviewing contracts of employment, identifying ‘red flag issues’ or defects with the contract for the client’s attention. This process involved using NNS’s in house software and database. Indexing and checking invoices and order forms. Reviewing contracts of employment, identifying ‘red flag issues’ or defects with the contract for the client’s attention. This process involved using NNS’s in house software and database.



Fladgate LLP

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Commercial property law paralegal (TEMPORARY)

  • Mar 2013 - Apr 2013

  The firm acted for a large property company with seven sites in cities around the UK containing dozens of individual properties at each location.Responding to letters, emails and phone calls from various solicitors representing the buyer, relating to the Deed of Covenant.Drafting a Deed of variationDrafting a Deed of AssignmentDrafting a Notice of MortgageObtaining registered title and other information from the Land Registry websiteAttending a trainee solicitor academy class on long and short lease agreements.Calculating Stamp Duty Land Tax amounts relating to a commercial lease on the rent and premium values.

• Commercial litigation paralegal (TEMPORARY)

  • Dec 2012 - Feb 2013

  Assisting with a highly contentious matter relating to the mis-selling of structured products by a large international bank to a wealthy private investor.



Linklaters

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Banking document review project (TEMPORARY)

  • Mar 2013 - Mar 2013

  Review of documents relating to a large multi-jurisdictional, multi-regulatory Libor investigation. Review of documents relating to a large multi-jurisdictional, multi-regulatory Libor investigation.



Clyde & Co

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Marine and International Trade document review paralegal (TEMPORARY)

  • Feb 2013 - Mar 2013

  Use of the Relativity document review platform to review documents for relevance in the matter of a shipping vessel contract dispute.The firm's client was the charterer of the petroleum shipping vessel that forms the subject matter of the dispute. Use of the Relativity document review platform to review documents for relevance in the matter of a shipping vessel contract dispute.The firm's client was the charterer of the petroleum shipping vessel that forms the subject matter of the dispute.



AET

• Singapore
• Maritime Transportation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Shipping Litigation document review paralegal (TEMPORARY)

  • Oct 2012 - Nov 2012



Financial Conduct Authority

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Paralegal (FTC)

  • Aug 2012 - Oct 2012

  Working on a case in the Retail 2 Enforcement and Financial Crime division. Examining a Bond Prospectus to identify if and to which companies fees and commissions were paid and the value of any such fees/commissions. Editing and updating excel spread sheet information containing records of documents that are to be provided to a foreign Judge in relation to possible criminal proceedings in a foreign jurisdiction. This involved making judgements about whether or not certain documents were legally privileged and finding documents from sources other than a regulatory body. Collating a folder with documents to be referred to the legal team for their inspection to decide which documents could ultimately be passed on to the foreign judge in relation to an investigation in Luxembourg. Ascertaining exchange rate currency values on specific dates in order to calculate a disgorgement value in GBP from US dollar figures. Editing and updating an electronic document copy of a Corporate Structure Report relating to the principal corporate entities of the individual under investigation. The case involved the mis selling of Life Insurance Policies and the potentially fraudulent use of investor funds. Copying files into the new Evidence Management System Collating a spreadsheet containing a list of all the documents that had been disclosed in the case to date. Assisting in the ‘quarantine’ process of hard copy documents that were either LPP Material or LPP documents, following a court order in relation to Judicial Review proceedings and documents that were deemed to be subject to legal professional privilege.



Clyde & Co

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Insurance/Reinsurance document review paralegal (TEMPORARY)

  • Jul 2012 - Aug 2012



Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Portuguese speaking document review paralegal (TEMPORARY)

  • Jul 2012 - Jul 2012

  Portuguese document review. This was in relation to a Brazilian corruption investigation. Relativity document review platform was used for review process. Portuguese document review. This was in relation to a Brazilian corruption investigation. Relativity document review platform was used for review process.



Berwin Leighton Paisner

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Document review paralegal Real Estate department

  • Jun 2012 - Jun 2012

  Reviewing Lease agreements to verifiy that there had been no material alterations to any of the Lease clauses.

• EU Competition law paralegal

  • Apr 2012 - May 2012

  Document review work in relation to an EU Commission cartel investigation. Using 'I-conect' document review software.



King & Wood Mallesons

• Hong Kong
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• EU Competition law document review paralegal

  • Mar 2012 - Mar 2012

  Reviewing documents in relation to an EU Commission competition investigation into a proposed acquisition by one large music industry company of another. I worked using the Relativity and Documatrix document review software. Reviewing documents in relation to an EU Commission competition investigation into a proposed acquisition by one large music industry company of another. I worked using the Relativity and Documatrix document review software.



Dechert LLP

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Document review paralegal, White Collar Crime

  • Jan 2012 - Mar 2012

  Litigation document review paralegal. Translation of documents relating to central African corruption risk assessment for client company. Translating from French to English, communication between Euribor traders, relating to a Serious Fraud Office Euribor fraudulent trading investigation. Litigation document review paralegal. Translation of documents relating to central African corruption risk assessment for client company. Translating from French to English, communication between Euribor traders, relating to a Serious Fraud Office Euribor fraudulent trading investigation.



Paul Hastings

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• French document review paralegal, re: Anti-corruption due diligence process

  • Dec 2011 - Dec 2011

  I assisted an associate with document review and translation from French to English of Joint Venture (grouping) agreements, target company responses to the pre-acquisition anti-corruption due diligence report. I travelled to Morocco to carry out live translation and note taking for the associate who was undertaking interviews of managers and directors of the target company relating to anti-corruption systems and processes in place at the company. This was necessary in order for the client buyer company to reduce the potential for liability under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977 and the UK Bribery Act 2010.



HaiSoft

• France
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Office Manager, Nottingham,UK

  • Feb 2011 - Nov 2011

  General office management with all it's responsibilities. General office management with all it's responsibilities.



Bhatia Best Solicitors, Nottingham,UK

• Family law paralegal

  • Mar 2010 - Nov 2010

  Assisting a family law partner with case load on family law matters; Divorce proceedings, Public law care proceedings, private law contact disputes. Attending Magistrate and County Court hearings with client and counsel. Assisting a family law partner with case load on family law matters; Divorce proceedings, Public law care proceedings, private law contact disputes. Attending Magistrate and County Court hearings with client and counsel.



RT Financial

• Coordinator for financial consultants

  • Aug 2009 - Dec 2009

  Off shore investment consultancy services for ex-pat and Brazilian executives/directors. Off shore investment consultancy services for ex-pat and Brazilian executives/directors.



Leigh Day

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 400 - 500 Employee

• French speaking para legal

  • Jul 2008 - Jun 2009

  I was part of a team of about 50 paralegals working on the huge Personal Injury group litigation claim, on behalf of 30,000 victims of a toxic spill in the Ivory Coast, West Africa. Damages were obtained for the Claimants in an out of court settlement with the defendant oil trading company. I was part of a team of about 50 paralegals working on the huge Personal Injury group litigation claim, on behalf of 30,000 victims of a toxic spill in the Ivory Coast, West Africa. Damages were obtained for the Claimants in an out of court settlement with the defendant oil trading company.



Lex English

• Legal English teacher

  • 2005 - 2005