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Fiona Teague

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Work Department

Commercial, Partner

Position

Fiona is a Partner in Shoosmiths’ Commercial Group and specialises in advising clients across all sectors on business critical commercial contracts (purchasing, production, infrastructure and logistics) as well as outsourcings, regularly with a cross border aspect. Fiona advises on all aspects of supply chain arrangements for goods (including FMCG) and services and other route to market arrangements including agency and distribution.

Prior to joining Shoosmiths, Fiona was General Counsel Europe for a Division of a global business Plc where she was also a member of the European executive management team. As a partner to the business she was responsible for delivery of key projects including the European stocking hub with strategic supply chain, re-designing the end to end business customer contracting process in accordance with LEAN principles and devising and managing a European compliance programme in respect of global trade sanctions.

Recent experience includes:

• ◦post transactional advice to a large FMCG business negotiating operationally complex long term services and supply arrangements (including warehousing and logistics);
• supporting a well-known pizza restaurant chain on significant commercial aspects of a global brand acquisition transaction;
• drafting and negotiating a bespoke services arrangement (co-dependent on a related real estate transaction) for a high end health club operator securing £8m funding contribution from the landlord to build a new state of the art health club with a multi-million pound lease value;
• negotiation of a complex framework global Master Services Agreement and related Local Services Agreements governing all services provided by a blue chip consumer credit reporting agency data to a key customer on a global basis;
• negotiating a £19m long term framework purchasing agreement with a leading US automotive Tier 2 manufacturer with complex KPI’s and cost down mechanisms;
• advising on a Strategic Endorsement Partnership between a professional regulatory body and a finance house;
• advising Virgin Care on a multi- million pound PbR contract with Burton Hospital Foundation Trust in respect of provision of acute services as part of the commissioned East Staffordshire Improving Lives contract; and
• advising on a multi-million pound contract with an unusual risk profile and lengthy liability provisions with the European Space Agency in relation to supply of a bespoke product used in rocket launching applications for the Arianne space project.

Career

Fiona trained in London and Brussels and spent several years working in London for global law firms on cross border commercial matters.