Paula Makwana

Legal specialties

• Commercial and Technology Advising on the full range of commercial and technology contracts, from complex procurement and outsourcing frameworks to software, hardware and managed services agreements, for multinational businesses across multiple jurisdictions.
• Procurement and Outsourcing Structuring and negotiating major procurement and outsourcing agreements and managed services contracts across technology and logistics.
• Corporate and Regulatory Advising boards and C-suite stakeholders on strategic, regulatory and corporate matters, including business expansion, transformation programmes and external counsel management.
• Technology and Telecoms Agreements Negotiating high-value technology, telecoms and managed services agreements, including a £113m telecoms managed services agreement, a £55m PDA managed services agreement and a £270m pan-European framework agreement.
• Cross-Border Commercial Advising on complex multi-jurisdictional commercial and logistics matters across the UK, Europe, GCC and LATAM, including multilateral agreements regulating postal traffic and data sharing worth over £1bn.
• Fintech and Regulatory Advising on fintech regulatory matters and business expansion, including supporting the launch of a new fintech operation in Oman.
• Legal Operations Designing and implementing legal operations frameworks, including contract governance programmes, templates, playbooks, SLAs, matter tracking and delegation of authority structures.