Katherine Sweetnam > Arbor Law > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Arbor Law Offices
118 Pall Mall
SW1Y 5ED
England
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Katherine Sweetnam
Position
After working in-house for 8 years, Katherine’s experience is broad and varied, advising companies and individuals on day-to-day commercial, corporate and employment queries as well as longer term strategic projects including fundraising, M&A, company secretarial support, corporate governance compliance, commercial contracts, consumer T&Cs, GDPR, employment (such as handling employee relations cases and compliant templates, policies and processes) and option scheme management and compliance.
Katherine takes the time to get to know her clients and their businesses and to understand what they need from her. She gives practical, clear, actionable advice.
Career
Katherine started her career at Taylor Wessing advising private equity and corporate clients on M&A, private equity and general corporate matters.
Her experience includes advising Wahanda (subsequently rebranded to Treatwell) on its acquisition of multiple companies across Europe. In 2015 Katherine moved in-house at Treatwell to set up the Legal function and led the Legal and People Operations teams during periods of huge change, including acquisitions, the sale of the business and the onset of Covid-19.
Katherine went on to act for Event Genius as the Chief People Officer & General Counsel where she was responsible for the Legal and People team across Europe, North America and APAC. Her achievements include overhauling the festival partner agreement and the customer facing T&Cs, auditing the employee option scheme, revising the corporate governance structure, and playing a key role in the sale of the business assets to Lyte and subsequent TUPE transfer and integration project that followed.
Personal
Katherine has young twins keeping her pretty busy! She loves travelling, discovering new restaurants and is lucky to live close to Bushy Park where she loves to run.