It is a busy but exciting time to be a regulatory lawyer. Fluro general counsel Jenny Steven has done anything and everything in her career from bank charges litigation to regulatory advisory work. Trained at Hogan Lovells and qualified into retail banking, after a client secondment at Lloyds, she got a call to join payday […]
Arrive at the National Gallery and you can tell that a lot is going on. Work on the outside to clean its 1830s stone facade; corridors lined with school groups, tourists and London locals; the extension of the Salisbury Wing in full swing – and yet there are still opportunities to calmly stare into paintings […]
Harry Borovick started life as the son of a textile market trader in Berwick Street. “I’m not from a family of lawyers,” he discloses. “My family were textile market traders for a number of generations, and I worked at my family’s business while at law school. I think that early interest in commerciality and how […]
It’s been a busy season for the Rugby Football Union (RFU), the governing body of English rugby: from head injury claims and Eddie Jones’s sacking, to club administrations and controversy over the game’s disciplinary process, the media has eaten up a parade of stories at the heart of the game. Whether you’re a rugby expert […]
Linklaters’ former managing partner Gideon Moore is no longer the one waiting for news of a panel appointment. He’s the one calling the shots. Taking on the top in-house legal job at NatWest Group last April, he is expecting to review the bank’s legal panel by the end of this year. As accepted by both […]
One of the main joys of going in-house is that you get the chance to experience virtually every challenge that a legal career can throw at you. From a very early stage, Instabee general counsel Mikaela Bielke knew that she wanted her career to be defined by variety and that her work would aide every […]
UK-headquartered photographic hardware and software manufacturer Kodak Alaris is a global business with an unusual origin story. When US-based Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy in 2012, it did so with massive pension deficits in the UK. At the time, Kodak’s UK Pension Plan (KPP) was its largest unsecured creditor with $2.84bn in defined pension plan […]
Pursuing big goals requires innovative thinking; enter BT’s director of transformation and projects, Prash Mehta.
There will have been plenty reasons to raise a smile on the face of Nordic Capital general counsel Henrik Johansson in 2022. The biggest highlight the outside world will have seen was the private equity house closing its largest-ever fund at €9bn in an extremely challenging macroeconomic environment. It even clocked in at €1bn over […]
Having overseen the London Stock Exchange Group’s legal team for 10 years, Catherine Johnson has led change across the business through digitisation and innovation, as well as integrating financial technology.
Back in March, ASDA’s marketing agency HAVAS was already thinking about Christmas. With a June deadline for presenting ideas for ASDA, they needed to come up with something and it needed to be good. The criteria: that it had to embody the Christmas spirit, be fun and light-hearted, and reflect ASDA’s brand and persona. Come […]
Ten months ago, James Thurgood moved from challenger bank Metro Bank to Elliptic: a tech start-up providing intelligence on crypto to ensure customers get compliant with regulation. Going from a highly-regulated sector to a tech scale-up that is evolving at the same time as regulation presented a new challenge for Thurgood – and one he […]