Experience

Y TREE
• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Head of Legal and Company Secretary

  • Jan 2022 - Present

gunnercooke llp
• United Kingdom
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Law Consultant

  • Sep 2021 - Jan 2022


LGPS Central Limited

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Counsel

  • Jan 2018 - Jun 2021

  First General Counsel of a start-up, incorporated three years ago, oversaw the authorisation by the FCA as an asset manager & operator of regulated & alternatives investment funds. Setting up legal department and panel. Providing advisory and transactional legal solutions across a number of asset classes and the business. Apply mitigation strategies to ensure the commercial interest of quasi SWF is adequately protected. Anticipating and implementing regulatory change emanating from the FCA, PRA, EU, Brexit. Structuring new business entities or asset classes/fund launches such as real estate, infrastructure and alternatives platforms. Setting up the governance arrangements within the organisation. Assisting the Board on various shareholder and company matters. Actively contributing to the development of the risk management culture within the firm. Contributing to compliance activity led by the team, including assessing current controls and ability to evidence those controls to achieve regulatory objectives. Building collaborative relationships with stakeholders around the business. Results oriented solutions that maximise revenues whilst meeting business needs. Strong leadership actively demonstrates leadership on important business and operational issues. Coordination, oversight and management of the legal team. Transaction work undertaken in respect of secondary and direct investments. Show less



Kuwait Investment Office

• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Global Head of Legal

  • May 2012 - Jan 2018

  Serve as sole global counsel to premier sovereign wealth fund with a focus on new business initiatives, cross-border acquisitions, corporate and risk governance and global regulatory compliance. Advise on proprietary group investments in private global businesses and funds, including corporate and regulatory due diligence, mergers and disinvestments and document negotiation. Co-ordinating legal entity restructuring, advising on employment arrangements, intercompany transfers pricing agreements and tax position. Directly involved with private and registered investment products, structuring and underlying investment portfolio's in fixed income, equities, alternative investments and infrastructure. Managing cross-border litigation. Member of the Management Committee. Show less


BNP Paribas
• Investment Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Legal Counsel

  • Sep 2006 - May 2012

ABN AMRO Asset Management
• Lawyer

  • 2005 - 2006

Barclays Capital
• United Kingdom
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Legal Counsel

  • 2001 - 2005