Sky Group’s general counsel has left the business, leading to the appointment of a new legal head at the broadcasting company. Niamh Grogan has joined Sky as its new group general counsel after leaving multinational insurance adviser Willis Towers Watson. There, she was its global deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer for more than […]
Chris Fletcher, who has held previous roles at Deliveroo, Amazon and Gett, has joined Infinium Logistics as its new general counsel. A City trained lawyer, Fletcher has spent his career in a mixture of both in-house and private practice positions. He started in corporate banking in the real estate department of HSBC, before moving onto […]
Ocado Retail has brought in a new head of legal from Vodafone. Clare Lynch joins the online grocer Ocado as its new head of legal from September 2022. She moves from Vodafone, where she has been a senior legal adviser in the group tax department for two years. Prior to this, she was a senior solicitor […]
Firms including Eversheds Sutherland and Shakespeare Martineau have won spots on a slimmed-down public sector panel valued at £49m. The Crescent Purchasing Consortium’s (CPC) new legal services framework provides a comprehensive set of services for the education sector. The purpose of the framework is to allow efficient and easy access to legal services at reduced […]
Pharmaceutical research and analytics group Pharma Intelligence has appointed a new general counsel. Vicky Harris comes from Warburg Pincus where she was a consultant. She moves into her role as general counsel for Pharma Intelligence, given that the acquisition of the business by the private house has now completed. In February this year, The Lawyer reported that […]
Content and intellectual property group RWS Holdings has hired a new general counsel. Jane Hyde joins from currency printing service and authenticator De La Rue, where she has spent two years as general counsel and company secretary. Having trained as a solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hyde has split her time between in-house and private […]
The panel places of eight firms are being reviewed as part of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme’s (FSCS) tender process. The FSCS is the UK’s statutory compensation scheme, established in 2000 as a safety net to provide compensation to customers of banks and other financial services providers where the financial service is unable to pay […]
Six weeks ago, I stood in the shower, watching the water drain at my feet, wondering what it would mean if being a lawyer wasn’t for me. A training contract is so often sold as the golden ticket, and somehow four years ago, I had managed to get my hands on it. A solid, covetable […]