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 […]
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.