London, England, United Kingdom
Technology and Commercial Contracts Lawyer working across the Financial Services, Retail and Consumer Goods and Tech sectors. As an active diversity and inclusion champion, I am also currently International Pro Bono and Community Engagement Lead for Iris, DLA Piper’s global network for LGBT+ colleagues and their allies.
Advising a range of clients across the public and private sectors (in particular technology and financial services) on business critical and material outsourcings, technology sourcing and implementation projects, software development, payment provider infrastructure and various other commercial partnering and collaboration agreements.
Leading our LGBT+ network in relation to pro bono and community engagement activities across EMEA. Through DLA Piper's LGBT+ pro bono unit, Iris Represents, working to create a community of organisations helping to build change for the LGBT+ community.
Advising a range of clients across the public and private sectors (in particular technology and financial services) on business critical and material outsourcings, technology sourcing and implementation projects, software development, payment provider infrastructure and various other commercial partnering and collaboration agreements.
As Vice President of The Glass Network, a networking and support group for LGBT+ Scottish legal professionals, and their allies, I played a key role in developing and maintaining our organisation's strategy in accordance with our mission aims in to increase visible support of LGBT+ equality in the Scottish Legal profession and develop a better understanding of the relevant issues among our straight and cis-gendered colleagues. In 2017, our organisation, in conjunction with the Law Society of Scotland, produced and rolled out a very successful YouTube campaign, featuring well known members of the Scottish legal profession, including First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon, as an innovative solution to combatting the perceived difficulty in supporting people's inherently invisible sexual orientation. I am proud that The Glass Network won CSR Award at the Law Awards of Scotland 2017.
Client secondment from DLA Piper to Heineken's in-house legal team, advising and working on a variety of transactions to support the business, including commercial contracts, intellectual property, brand protection and data protection.