Hill Dickinson LLP

Commercial, TMT & IP Team

Partner.

Originally trained (Articled Clerk) at Rowe & Maw in the City of London between 1992 - 1994, qualified into the Company Commercial Team in September 1994

Moved to Manchester to Slater Heelis in January 1996 (Associate into the Company Commercial Team)

Slater Heelis merged into Cobbetts around 1998 – Senior Associate in the Commercial Team until made Partner in May 2001.

Moved to Hill Dickinson based in their Manchester office in January 2010 as Partner in their Commercial, TMT & IP Team

Made Head of the Commercial TMT & IP Team in February 2015

Chair of the Hill Dickinson Corporate Responsibility Board from 2016 through to December 2024 – CR Board replaced by new Responsible Business Executive – Appointed to the Community Engagement Pillar.

Council Member and Hon Treasurer of the Manchester Law Society (as Hill Dickinson’s representative) 2015 to present.

Trustee and Chair of the Board at the Big Life North (which includes Self Help Services and Big Life Centres – all being charities within the Big Life Group) since 1998

EDI Lead for the firm’s Manchester Office

Lead for the LGBTQI+ Networking Group

English, Gaelic (learning).

Procurement Lawyers Association – Member

Manchester Law Society – Hon Treasurer

Big Life North – Trustee and Chair

University of Essex, LLB (Hons) – Graduated July 1990

College of Law, York, LSFE July 1992 (Second Class Hons)

Married (to a palliative care consultant which always makes conversation filled with hope and joy) and with elderly cats. Enjoying planning retirement.

Travelling as far afield as possible, gardening, reading, cinema, photography, cooking, planning retirement….