United Kingdom 2021
Supported by the Association of Corporate Counsel
General counsel of the Investment Bank and Capital Release Unit | Deutsche Bank
Alex Scott-Gall successfully built a new capital release unit with no headcount increase and ensured a sensitive updating of legal risk was completed for the investment bank in a turbulent...
General counsel EMEA | Lightsource BP
I have been hugely impressed with Alexandra DeSouza of Lightsource BP. DeSouza has been grappling with the perennial issue of how to make the best use of internal resources across...
Head of legal | WM Morrison Supermarkets
Alison Charnock was effective with feeding the nation in the most difficult of times has been a central plank of the country’s success over the last 12-15 months. Charnock and...
General counsel and company secretary | British Airways
Team size: 23 What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved in during the last year? There has been a lot going...
General counsel and director of M&A | SIG
Andrew Watkins was the sole in-house legal resource working on the 2020 restructuring of the SIG group’s financing facilities. Watkins is a committed, experienced general counsel, and his pragmatism, skills...
General counsel | News UK
Legal team size: 25 What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved in during the last year? The successful defence of the...
General counsel and company secretary | ASOS
Team size: Approximately 35 Major legal advisers: Slaughter & May, Lewis Silkin, DLA Piper How did you assist the employees of the company get through that really difficult period of...
Head of digital services | Fujitsu UK
Team size: Global team of 40. The global Legal, Commercial and Compliance function is over 250 What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have...
Chief of staff and general counsel | Heathrow Airport
Team size: Around 20 Major legal advisers: Freshfields, BCLP, Pinsent Masons, Eversheds, Towerhouse Consulting, Owen White, Allen & Overy What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have...
Associate general counsel | Facebook
Major legal advisers: Osborne Clarke, RPC, White & Case, Covington What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved in during the last...
Group general counsel | London Stock Exchange Group
Team size: Approximately 200 What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year? I was a principal in the planning and...
General counsel | Deliveroo
What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved in during the last year? Some of the most important milestones from last year...
General counsel and company secretary | BritVic
Team size: 13 lawyers, eight others Major legal advisers: Linklaters, Addleshaw Goddard, Lewis Silkin, Macfarlanes, Trethowans, Arthur Cox, CMS, Keystone Law, Lefosse What are the most important transactions and litigations...
General counsel and company secretary | Coca-Cola European Partners
Team size: 90+ Major legal advisers: Slaughter and May, CMS, Ius Laboris What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year?...
General counsel (regions) | Network Rail
Team size: 30 lawyers Can you tell us about the O-Shaped Lawyer initiative? I have been leading this initiative over the last three years and it has gained significant momentum...
Group general counsel | Harrods
Team size: Ten What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year? It was launching the Harrods Beauty business and Harrods...
General counsel and company secretary | Wise
Team size: 18 Major legal advisers: Linklaters, Slaughter & May, Bird & Bird, Foot Anstey, Haug Partners, DLA Piper, Mattos Filo. What are the most important transactions and litigations that...
General counsel | Abellio
Major legal advisers: Stephenson Harwood, Burges Salmon What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved in during the last year? Abellio is...
Group general counsel | Kingfisher
Team size: 60 What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year? The disposal of Kingfisher’s business in Russia, Castorama Russia,...
Head of legal | Ecotricity
Team size: Six Major legal advisers: TLT, Dentons, Kilburn & Strode, Lux Nova What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last...
Europe chief officer, legal and regulatory | Visa
Emma Slatter oversees and aligns all legal, regulatory, compliance and government engagement matters for Visa in the UK and Europe in the fast-evolving payments landscape. She has recruited market leading...
Head of group legal and compliance | SDL
Team size: 10 Major legal advisers: Carr & Ferrell, DLA Piper, Dentons and Sullivan & Worcester What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have...
Chief risk officer, global general counsel for investments and head of EMEA | The Carlyle Group
Team size: 15 What were the most important transactions and litigations that you’ve been involved with, during the last year? Rather than an individual transaction, it has to be how...
UK general counsel | HSBC
Team size: 53, with additional support from HSBC group legal teams and contractors and secondees What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been...
Group general counsel, company secretary | EG Group
Imraan Patel and the In house team at Euro Garages are immensely driven, dedicated and entrepreneurial. Alongside expanding into new jurisdictions Patel has been involved in notable acquisitions, all the...
Chief counsel | Financial Services Compensation Scheme
Team size: 15 Major legal advisers: Addleshaw Goddard, Bevan Brittan, Burges Salmon, Burness Paull, Clifford Chance, Dentons and Eversheds Sutherland What are the most important transactions, litigations, or other major...
General counsel and member of the executive management committee | Insight Investments
General counsel | KPMG
Team size: 70 Major legal advisers: Linklaters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Orrick, Herbert Smith Freehills, Eversheds Sutherland, DLA Piper What have been the most important transactions and litigations that you’ve been...
General counsel | Liverpool Football Club
Jonathan Bamber and the Liverpool Football & Athletic Club (LFC) inhouse team have had to deal with the significant impact of Covid-19 on LFC’s business and indeed the football industry...
General counsel and company secretary | Virgin Atlantic
The airline industry is one which appears to have been particularly negatively affected by anti-Covid measures. What were some of the first things you did to safeguard the business? There...
Former general counsel and company secretary | Notonthehighstreet
Team size: Three Major legal advisers: Osborne Clark, Keystone What would you say are the most important transactions and litigations that you’ve been involved in, in the last year? The...
Group general counsel and company secretary | Lloyds
Team size: Approx 350 excluding secondees What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year? The first thing to mention would...
Senior vice president, head of legal services UKIEEMEA | DHL
Team size: 60 What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year? The negotiation of contracts associated with the setting up...
General counsel | E.On UK
Kirin Kalsi has been everything we could have hoped for. She has been very positive, always ensuring she was available for call, and has given really valuable advice to us....
Company secretary, general counsel and chief people officer | Funding Circle
Team size: 22 What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year? The most important transaction the team has been involved...
General counsel and company secretary | easyJet
Team size: Just under 100 What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year? A combination of investigations, litigations, a judicial...
General counsel UK | CBRE Investment Management
Team size: Three Major legal advisers: Jones Day, BCLP, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, CMS, Penningtons Manches Cooper What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in...
Group general counsel and chief risk and governance officer | Royal Mail
Team size: 40 in the UK Major legal advisers: Addleshaw Goddard, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Herbert Smith, DAC Beachcroft, Weightmans, Dentons, Slaughter and May, Macfarlanes What are the most important...
General counsel | Nationwide Building Society
Team size: 55 What were the main changes to your working life during the initial Covid lockdown? Overall, a lot more contact with others. I used to have once weekly...
General counsel | Rolls-Royce
Team size: 500 overall with around 40 lawyers What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved in during the last year? The...
General counsel UK and Ireland | Nestlé
Team size: 14 What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year? Firstly, a joint venture called PODBACK recently announced by...
Vice president and associate general counsel, Mobility Technologies | Vontier
What were the main steps you took to protect the business once it became clear we were in the midst of an unprecedented challenge? During these unprecedented times the business...
Group general counsel | Smiths Group
Team size: 65, excluding Group HSE team What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year? The legal team played its...
Former general counsel and chief corporate affairs officer | Virgin Media
Group general counsel and company secretary | Lombard International
Team size: 50 Major legal advisers: Allen & Overy, Baker McKenzie, DLA Piper & Linklaters What were the main difficulties your company faced during the initial Covid-19 lockdown? The Covid-19...
General counsel EMEA | Via Transportation
Team size: Six Major legal advisers: Burges Salmon, DLA Piper, Fried Frank, Ropes & Gray, Taylor Wessing What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you...
Vice president legal EMEA | GSK
Team size: 30 Major legal advisers: Slaughter and May, Allen & Overy, CMS, Addleshaw Goddard What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during...
General counsel and director, regulatory affairs and group company secretary | Trainline
Team size: 14 Major legal advisers: Baker McKenzie, White & Case, Freshfields, Deloitte, Gide Loyrette Nouel, Jeantet What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved...
General counsel and company secretary | Marks and Spencer
Team size: 18 Major legal advisers: Allen & Overy; Dentons; Bird & Bird; Stobbs What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved...
General counsel and company secretary | Dixons Carphone
Team size: 52 comprising legal, company secretariat, financial services compliance, business standards and risk management and insurance Major legal advisers (United Kingdom): Addleshaw Goddard, Bristows, Clyde & Co, DAC Beachcroft,...
General counsel and head of corporate affairs | Cubico Invest
Team size: 15 What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year? Over the past year, I have been involved in...
Director of legal services and company secretary | Associated British Foods
Team size: 75-80 Major legal advisers: Allen & Overy, Addleshaw Goddard, CMS, Herbert Smith Freehills, Macfarlanes What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have...
Group general counsel | BAE Systems
Team size: Over 300 What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved in during the last year? At its height, the Covid...
Group general counsel | TP ICAP
How did you adapt to the initial shock of the Covid-19 lockdown? The standout thing for me was how our individual staff members responded to it. You can build as...
General counsel | The Phoenix Group
Team size: approximately 70 lawyers, company secretaries and administration staff Major legal advisers: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; CMS; Linklaters; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Hogan Lovells; Clyde & Co; Pinsents;...
General counsel and director of policy | what3words
Team size: Three Major legal advisers: Lewis Silkin, CMS, Ashfords What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved in during the last...
General counsel UK and Ireland | Centrica
Raj Roy is a focused lawyer who commands respect. He has engendered a culture of achievement at Centrica, where lawyers are encouraged to take ownership, seek opportunity and be courageous....
Chief legal officer and group secretary | Unilever
Team size: 430 What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year? Undoubtedly, the unification of Unilever’s dual-headed legal structure. It...
General counsel and company secretary | Costcutter Supermarkets Group
What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved in during the last year? Responding to the pandemic and preparing for Brexit aside,...
General counsel and company secretary | The Crown Estate
Team size: 20 Major legal advisers: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Hogan Lovells, CMS, Burges Salmon, Womble Bond Dickinson, Town Legal What are the most important transactions and litigations that you...
General counsel | LendInvest
Team size: Three legal and three compliance What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last year? We managed to close our...
Group general counsel | BT
Team size: 289 Major legal advisers: UK Panel firms are Addleshaw Goddard, Allen & Overy, BCLP, Bird & Bird, Covington & Burling, CMS, DAC Beachcroft, DWF, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Lewis...
General counsel | City Football Group
Team size: 30 (20 lawyers and ten non-legal professionals) Major legal advisers: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Clifford Chance, Paul Hastings, Pinsent Masons, Gateley, Squire Patton Boggs, Centrefield What are the most...
General counsel, investment bank and EMEA | UBS
Team size: 160 for Investment Bank What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved in during the last year? It is difficult...
General counsel United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands | Siemens Energy
Team size: approximately 25 What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved in during the last year? During the last year we...
General counsel and executive director for the legal directorate | Bank of England
Team size: 180 What were the main steps you took to protect the business once it became clear we were in the midst of an unprecedented challenge? The pace at...
General counsel | Daily Mail and General Trust
Team size: Fewer than 25 Major legal advisers: Slaughter & May, Baker McKenzie, Reed Smith, Bird & Bird, Squire Patton Boggs, Lewis Silkin What are the most important transactions and...
General counsel and director of regulatory affairs | Three
Team size: 75 (including 25 lawyers) Major legal advisers: Constantine Cannon, Baker McKenzie, Shoosmiths, Lewis Silken, Linklaters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer What are the most important transactions and litigations that you...
General counsel EMEA, APAC and Industrial | Hexcel Corporation
Team size: Four Major legal advisers: DLA Piper and K&L Gates What are the most important transactions, litigations or other major projects that you have been involved in during the...
General counsel | Glendower Capital
Tom Hodge has developed in-house processes to aggregate deal and fundraising data and map market trends to seek competitive advantage in transactions and fundraising. He has also developed procedures for...
