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University of Oxford

Oxford University Law & Computer Science 2024/5 Programme Mentor

BamLegal

Head Of Digital

Innovation Lead - Emerging Technology 

Deloitte Legal

Ventures & Innovation 

Deloitte Digital

Product Owner and Scrum Master

LaunchFair

Co-founded and organised LaunchFair - A technology career fair for 300 attendees and 20 companies looking to recruit technology talent.

Co-Founder & Organiser

UCC Intelligent Efficiency Research Group

Marketing & Strategy

Ecanvasser

Customer Solutions Manager

Beat That Bill Ltd.

Head Of Operations

Legal Tech Innovation Consulting @ Titans | Head of Digital @ BamLegal

Peter Duffy

Yas Holding

- Yas Holding is a renowned UAE headquartered multi-national investment company with a multi-industry business portfolio spanning 9 key sectors, 7500 employees, and more than 120 group companies operating worldwide.
- The group is in growth mode, with expanding business interests in agriculture, food, healthcare, education, aviation, real estate, FMCG, technology & services and a Ventures arm. Yas Holding’s diverse companies operate throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- Senior lawyer handling corporate, finance, commercial contracts and from time to time employment and other contentious matters, all as part of a wider team, and sitting at the holding company level.
- Cross border transactions.
- Extensive experience working with sales teams and government ministries.
- NEOM contract review and negotiation.
- Legal endorsement.
- Legal tech mandate

Group Legal Counsel (Senior Lawyer)

New Legal Group

https://new-legal.com/

- Lawyer, collaborator and advisor.
- Legal, contracts, documentation and products consultant. 
- Strategy, structuring and partnerships advisor

Board Advisor/ Partner

The Law Tech Consultancy

EMEA Director

FalconLion

FalconLion is a community that builds a bridge for UK and UAE businesses, professionals and entrepreneurs to connect, collaborate and execute.

Board Advisor/Shareholder

Pop-Up Comedy Shop

Advisor to the Board

Eluciant Limited

Engagement 1 - Business Development (various) 
- Leveraged my network to assist 5+ businesses with acquiring new customers, engaging suppliers, fundraising and/or forming strategic partnerships

Engagement 2 - Commercial contracts negotiator @ Ontra
- Ontra platform remote legal advisor/contracts specialist.
- Review, amend, negotiate and conclude engagement letters, reliance letters and NDAs. Engagement letters include service agreements, terms of business and other engagement terms for a variety of matters such as due diligence providers (i.e tax, commercial, financial) to cyber specialists, technical due diligence providers and other transaction specific advisors.
- Playbook creation and template generation.

Engagement 3 - Corporate Lawyer/ Consultant @ Arch Law
- Resource Member generating template VC legal documentation and liaising with tech company to allow functionality and interactiveness with its software tool. 
- Reviewing investment documentation.

Engagement 4 - Corporate and Finance Legal Consultant @ Ignition Law 
- Drafted and reviewed SPAs for two separate retail share sales. 
- Drafted and negotiated security documentation.
- Drafted Shareholders' Agreements and managed investment process.
- Drafted and negotiated Convertible Loan Note Instruments.
- Drafted board minutes, directors' certificates, shareholder resolutions, investor consent letters and other ancillary documentation.
- Managed the corporate aspects of an EMI share option exercise. 
- Business Development.
- Managed execution and completion processes.

Engagement 5
- Investment Advisor/Consultant to FotoArtist

Engagement 6
-Advisor to vitae, an ethical startup on the home device industry.

Engagement 7
- The Talent Agency

Engagement 8
- Various
- Legal Career Coach/ Mentor

Engagement 9
- Private advisor

Founder, Lawyer and Business Developer (Director of my own PSC)

Hendon School

- Executive level responsibilities at this inner city, mixed secondary school;
- Member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee;
- Compliance with governor training;
- Link Governor;
- Organisational Review and Strategy work.

School Governor

D2 Legal Technology

- IBOR transition and remediation project for a leading Investment Bank (5th largest worldwide by AUM) with D2 Legal Technology.
- Regulatory change.
- Manage queries inbox.
- Manage external legal counsel.
- Liaise with stakeholders.
- Update operating models and playbooks.
- Review Loan and Swap documentation and assist with negotiation and execution.
- As relationship manager - sought out opportunities to strengthen D2LT and MUFG relationships, identifying pinch points and arranging pitch meetings.

Lawyer and Relationship Manager

Intervisual Group Limited

- Startup executive;
- Incorporated company and set up accounts;
- Networked with affiliates;
- Talent Management;
- Creating wellness ethos and delivery scheme;
- Executive Producer of documentary pitch materials
- Strategy;
- Partnerships

Director

Schroders

Legal Counsel in the Investments Team at the London Headquarters of this FTSE 100 Asset Manager (AUM £550m).

- Funds, Finance, Derivatives, Banking, Financial Services, Structured Products, Securitsation, Structured Finance;
-Liaised with multiple different teams across the company (including worldwide offices and brokers);
- Worked on international transactions;
- Legal capacity and due diligence checks on clients, including escalation to non-legal functions;
- IPO letter review and amendments;
- Assisted on firm-wide projects, contributing to project design and execution;
- Drafted, amended and negotiated transaction documentation with panel of brokers and banks;
- Corporate finance, legal writing, legal research, negotiation, stakeholder management, teamwork.

Legal Counsel (Investments)

I am a business consultant, board advisor and senior lawyer (admitted in England & Wales and the Roll of Solicitors in the Republic of Ireland) with the following experience (9years+) within common law and civil law legal systems:

Corporate Experience: (i) M&A, (ii) Due Diligence, (iii) Subscriptions and Investments, (iv) Shareholder Agreements (v) CoSec, (vi) Completions, (vii) Startups

Finance Experience: (i) Derivatives and Structured Products, (ii) Convertible Lending Instruments (iiI) Fund Finance, (iv) Leveraged Finance, (v) Regulatory Change, (vi) Commodities and Energy, and (vii) Securitisation.

Commercial Contracts Experience: (i) NDAs, (ii) Engagement Letters, (iii) Supply and/or Service Agreements,  (iv) Management Contracts, (v) Publishing Contracts, (vi) Talent Contracts.

Alongside my inhouse legal role, I hold 3 startup advisory roles, BD role for the Law Tech consultancy, a student mentoring role and a membership of Virtual Non-Exec Directors network and Cataclysm Ventures (Legal Tech). I am a former secondary school Governor, Consultant at MUFG Bank and I was also a legal counsel within the Investment team at Schroders' London HQ. I have also worked as an Analyst/Project Consultant at Credit Suisse (Via D2LT), a part-time Law Tutor and musician.  I have also obtained work experience in the Houses of Parliament and in Singapore. 

My Training Contract (2 years at Travers Smith LLP) seats were as follows:
- Employment;
- Finance (Derivatives and Structured Products);
- Corporate (Private Equity/M&A); and
- Corporate (Investment Funds). 

My education includes:
- The Legal Practice Course (Pass with Distinction)
- The Graduate Diploma in Law (Pass with Commendation, Gold Award Academic Scholarship)  
- Psychology BSc (First Class with Hons, University of Warwick). Following graduation, my dissertation was published in the Journal of Adolescence and presented at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Centre for Advanced Learning and Conferences (where it was awarded 2nd place). In addition, I have multiple times been invited back to give an alumni talk to Warwick Psychology Undergraduates.

I enjoy travelling, networking, blue sky thinking, reading, making music and focussing on health/wellness. I consider my psychologist background to be an advantage as it has helped contribute to my understanding of emotional intelligence, self-awareness and relationships. I have lived in UK, Spain  and UAE.
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Email: joshhamiltonsmith@hotmail.co.uk

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