What do you do for your clients ?
Having worked in-house for 8 years, my experience is broad and varied. I advise on day-to-day commercial, corporate and employment queries as well as longer term strategic projects. I represent both companies and individuals and my experience covers a whole range of areas 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.
That I take the time to get to know them and their business and to understand what they need from me. I give practical, clear, actionable advice. I am responsive, smart with my time and focused on getting the job done.
Before Arbor
Taylor Wessing, Trainee and Associate
Sept 2012- Oct 2015
Advising private equity and corporate clients on M&A, private equity and general corporate matters. Included advising Wahanda (subsequently rebranded to Treatwell) on its acquisition of multiple companies across Europe.
Treatwell, General Counsel and People Director
Oct 2015- Nov 2021
Moved in-house in 2015 to set up the Legal function from scratch 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
Event Genius, Chief People Officer & General Counsel
Nov 2021- Jan 2023
I was responsible for the Legal and People team across Europe, North America and APAC. Achievements including overhauling the festival partner agreement and 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 (following its administration in Sept 2022) and subsequent TUPE transfer and integration project that followed.
Education
- University of Nottingham, History BA
- BPP Law School, Graduate Diploma in Law
- BPP Law School, LPC