Head of a small AMME legal team, supporting $800+m/year revenues in low volume, high value ($5m-$30m+) contracts in offshore seismic acquisition and data licensing with international oil & gas exploration and production companies. Manage high value ($20m-$75m) commercial disputes.  Give risk based advice on brokerage and revenue sharing agreements with foreign government energy ministries, local content law, export controls, anti-trust/competition law, anti-corruption matters.

Head Of Legal - UK, Africa & Middle East

Legal Counsel

Addleshaw Goddard

Associate in Energy, Projects & Infrastructure.

Specialising in commercial and regulatory advice in the energy sector.

Associate

Walker Morris LLP

Seats in Corporate, Construction, Intellectual Property and Litigation

Trainee Solicitor

Drax Power

Secondment in the Drax legal team focussing on procurment and commercial issues.

In-House Legal Counsel - on secondment.

Zenith Provecta

Post Merger Integration: project managed integration of management information systems. Reporting directly to the CEO, the work involved evaluating, scoping and integrating the target company’s information management systems and processes into our existing management systems. This involved working with internal service providers (customer facing sales teams and in-house IT teams) to ensure the business integration was delivered on time and budget.

Led on a few business process improvement projects, primarily aimed at enabling the existing teams to deal with the increased volume of transactions.

Senior Project Manager

Total911 Magazine

Started Total911 Magazine (www.total911.com). Learned a lot about the hard work to be done when starting a new venture from scratch with no previous industry experience. Hard work, but worth the effort.

Publisher

Rollem Production Company

Legal & Business Affairs / Associate Producer

Lime Pictures

Directed a number of episodes of Hollyoaks.

Freelance TV Director

The Finishing School Digital Post Production

Started the first all digital telecine/colour correction facility outside of Soho with the Sony Spirit hi-def telecine.

Founder / MD

Freelance

Started out researching on some great factual and science shows. Bad Influence, The Big Bang, Scientific Eye, Coltranes, Planes and Automobiles, Local Heroes and others working for ITV, BBC and Channel 4 along the way.

Freelance Television Researcher / Producer / Director

Head of Legal for a listed company with a demonstrated history of working in the oil & energy industry. Skilled in contract negotiation and drafting and delivering commercially focused and risk aware advice on complex issues in multiple jurisdictions. 

A pragmatic generalist, I endeavour to make the legal team a revenue generator instead of a cost centre by giving the commercial teams the leverage they need to win work, get paid and manage and enforce high value contracts.

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