Partner at international law firm (now Squire Patton Boggs), partner at international management consultancy (PA Consulting Group), and Managing Director at HSBC Group.
All of these roles have involved complex negotiations, matrix management of challenging issues and dealing with multi discipline colleagues / 3rd party partners to achieve consensus driven results.
Managing Director HSBC Global Services
Head of Restructuring
Responsible for the design, build and management of HSBC Global Services (HGSL) ($12bn revenues, 103,000 employees), a captive shared services organisation
Managed relationships with multiple regulators (e.g. UK, HK, Switzerland)
Served on HGSL holdco board and chaired boards of key subsidiaries
Head of Shared Services and Outsourcing (SSO)
Partner in SSO practice
Specialist in helping corporates and institutions fix failing outsourcing deals
Skilled person adviser (s.166 FSMA) to UK financial regulator on the outsourcing/competition implications of major UK bank demerger
Head of Dispute Resolution
Head of Commercial
Office Managing Partner
Broad range of legal expertise, from corporate disputes to commercial deal making (in particular outsourcing)
Advised on the second largest strategic outsourcing deal in the world (value $5bn)
Specialist in disputes regarding M&A, shareholders, outsourcing and shared services and commercial contracts