About Me

With over 20 years’ experience as a corporate technology lawyer, I combine senior legal judgement with operational design thinking. I've worked across blue-chip, high-growth and transformational environments – delivering not just legal advice, but measurable outcomes.

My background spans magic circle and white-shoe firms, through to global tech companies, high-performance engineering groups, and FTSE100 legal teams. I’ve acted as Group General Counsel, legal COO, and Director of Legal Operations & Innovation. Now, I offer that experience on a fractional or project basis – bringing both strategic legal input and operational firepower to teams who want to move faster, scale smarter, or just get through a crunch.

I support GCs, COOs, and founders who want:

• Fractional general counsel input – commercial, corporate, governance or risk
• Ad hoc senior support – to drop into live issues or unblock priority work
• Legal operations leadership – to optimise structure, spend, and delivery
   

I’m passionate about designing better legal functions – whether that’s through technology, analytics, process redesign or just clearer conversations. I’ve worked with agile operating systems, legal design, and behavioural principles to help legal teams move from reactive to proactive, and to align more closely with the business.

I’m also a proud member of the legal innovation community, and an active contributor and speaker on legal ops and transformation.

• Designed and implemented a new corporate legal structure for a 70+ person global team
• Introduced a legal 'front door' for a major technology business
• Ran a panel review for a FTSE100 company covering M&A, IP, ethics & compliance
• Supported the procurement team of a fintech provider through a busy transformational period
• Co-founded an alternative legal service provider ('Indio') inside a corporate legal function
• Set up and ran a sanctions-compliant governance system for a Middle East joint venture
   

• Panelist, The Lawyer Conference – “In-House Counsel as Business Partner”
• Host, “Bridge the Gap” – Law firm of the future workshop
• Speaker, CLOC London Institute – “Three Practical Examples in Legal Ops”
   

• Group General Counsel – Gordon Murray Group
• GC & COO – Wedo.ai
• Interim GC – Williams Advanced Engineering
• Director of Legal Operations & Innovation – Smiths Group Plc
• Associate General Counsel / Divisional GC – Smiths Group Plc 
• Senior Attorney – IBM
• Associate – Arnold & Porter
• Trainee – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
   

• EMEA Council – CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium)
• Law Society of England & Wales
   

• Blockchain Strategy Programme - Saïd Business School, Oxford
• BA Jurisprudence – New College, Oxford 
• European Law Studies – Leiden University, The Netherlands