Behind this year’s Commonwealth Games was a legal team led by Caroline McGrory, who pulled the strands together to deliver the UK’s biggest sporting event since the Olympics in 2012.
Elspeth Vincent, GC at Field, entered a market a decade ago that has since become one of the most talked about on the planet: energy. With the challenges over electricity supply following Russia’s war on Ukraine, increasing concern over energy security and a looming climate crisis, focus on the energy sector is more vital than […]
Croda International’s GC Tom Brophy talks to Jessica Boak about how its small legal resource achieves huge strategic objectives.
Patrick Cantrill, GC at Getech, talks to Jessica Boak about how reaching the partner cut-off at Womble Bond Dickinson encouraged him to move in-house.
Growing up between London and Lagos, Claudius Sokenu started out in the US government legal department before later becoming the first Black male partner at American outfit Shearman & Sterling. It was after becoming a partner that he took his career in a new direction by moving in-house. “I always knew that I didn’t think […]
Mariam Akanbi is general counsel at investment advisory firm ARCH Emerging Markets Partners, based in London. She studied law and sociology at Warwick University, partly because she wasn’t entirely sure that law was the career for her. It was while she was at university that she discovered corporate law, and found out about the path […]
When the pandemic first started many were worried about retaining their jobs and most importantly their wages after the country went into in lockdown. The Government’s coronavirus job retention scheme – better known as furlough – was introduced to help millions of people across the country who worked for companies that were forbidden to open. […]
WorldRemit’s general counsel Lara Oyesanya talks about her role, being on the executive board, and her top tips for other aspiring black female lawyers.
Leah Brown talks about her journey from private practice to in-house, how she overcame adversity and started her own consulting business as a ‘fixer’ and general counsel.
The UK’s most controversial business hired former Orrick partner Keily Blair as chief strategy and operations officer – and she has become a key advocate for its model.
The beginning of Jonathan Aitken’s career with PRS for Music coincided with the explosive arrival of online listening: first with digital downloads and then eventually streaming services. Music consumption was revolutionised right before Aitken’s ears. If you’re unfamiliar with PRS, chances are you’ll have come across their work. Think the Spotify soundtrack to your City […]
Ben Wulwik joined OakNorth in its early start-up days, over six years ago. Founded by university friends Rishi Khosla and Joel Perlman, OakNorth came about after they realised there was a gap in the market for providing funding to entrepreneurs following the experience they’d had in trying to secure a loan for the first business […]