Practice Areas
From complex cross-border transactions to data privacy compliance and strategic advisory — practical, business-aligned counsel built on 18+ years of experience across Big Law, in-house, and regulatory roles.
End-to-end counsel on complex, cross-border deals — from first term sheet through closing.
Drawing on a foundation built at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher across New York and London, this practice offers deep experience structuring and executing a wide range of corporate transactions for companies, investors, underwriters, and lenders.
Engagements span the full capital structure — from early-stage equity financings to public securities offerings, infrastructure project finance, and strategic M&A. Particular depth in cross-border transactions involving US, UK, and Asia-Pacific parties, including coordinating local and specialist counsel across jurisdictions.
Clients receive partners who can manage specific workstreams independently, supervise due diligence teams, advise on corporate governance alongside the deal, and anticipate the regulatory considerations that affect deal structure and timeline.
Transaction Types
Documents & Deliverables
Drafting and negotiating agreements that protect your interests, enable your business, and hold up when it matters.
In-house experience negotiating hundreds of enterprise agreements — SaaS, data licensing, vendor, consulting, and more — developed a practitioner's fluency with the friction points that derail deals and the contract provisions that create real risk.
This practice serves both buyers and sellers, advising on commercial terms, risk allocation, liability caps, indemnification, IP ownership, and data rights. Particular experience advising technology companies and their enterprise customers on SaaS agreements, data licensing, and the emerging legal issues arising from AI tool adoption and integration into existing contract frameworks.
Engagements range from a single high-stakes agreement to standing advisory relationships where ongoing commercial contracting support is provided alongside the business development function.
Agreement Types
Emerging Areas
Privacy counsel that is practical, proportionate, and embedded in your business operations — not bolted on as an afterthought.
Holding the CIPP/E certification and having built privacy compliance programs from the ground up in an in-house context, this practice brings both the legal framework and operational reality of privacy compliance together. Particular depth in GDPR and the e-Privacy Directive, with experience across APAC and EMEA regulatory environments.
Work spans the full privacy compliance lifecycle: from building initial documentation frameworks and conducting data mapping exercises, through negotiating DPAs with enterprise customers and vendors, to responding to regulators, managing DSARs, and advising on cross-border data transfers following the CJEU standard contractual clauses decision.
Privacy advice is always connected to the commercial reality — helping businesses manage regulatory obligations without losing sight of what it takes to close deals and serve customers.
Frameworks & Regulations
Services
Regulatory guidance informed by direct experience on both sides of the examination table.
Few advisors bring the regulatory perspective of a sitting federal bank examiner to private matters. Having conducted examinations at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, evaluating compliance risk management programs of systemically significant financial institutions, means understanding precisely how regulators assess governance frameworks, review remediation, and form supervisory judgments.
That perspective — combined with a foundation in risk management consulting at Accenture, where compliance gaps at Fortune 500 financial services companies were identified and remediated — makes this practice uniquely positioned to help financial institutions, fintechs, and regulated businesses build and maintain programs that can withstand regulatory scrutiny.
Services include advisory work alongside enforcement actions, corporate governance counseling for board-level audiences, compliance program development, and risk framework design.
Services
Client Types
Fractional general counsel and external strategic adviser services for startups, scaleups, and businesses entering new markets.
Not every business is ready for a full-time general counsel — but every business navigating growth, new markets, or complex vendor relationships needs senior legal perspective in the room. This practice offers a flexible engagement model for businesses that need experienced counsel on demand.
Drawing on direct experience advising early-stage startups and SMEs across the Asia-Pacific region, this service goes beyond pure legal work to include strategic input on business structure, operational policies, market entry, and partner and investor relationships.
For companies expanding into or within the APAC region, this practice offers particular value: an advisor familiar with local regulatory environments, experienced in coordinating local counsel, and fluent in the transactional norms of Singapore, Hong Kong, and broader Southeast Asia.
Engagement Models
Services
Why Work With This Practice
Admitted in both New York and England & Wales, providing seamless counsel on US–UK cross-border matters without the coordination lag of engaging separate counsel in each jurisdiction.
Having served as in-house counsel, advice is framed around what actually works inside a business — not just what's legally defensible. Practical, commercially-aware counsel that supports your team, not just your lawyers.
Former Federal Reserve examiner with firsthand understanding of how regulators evaluate governance programs, assess remediation, and make supervisory judgments — a perspective that shapes advice well beyond financial services matters.
Experience across New York, London, and Singapore, with deep familiarity in cross-border APAC transactions, regional regulatory environments, and coordinating multi-jurisdictional counsel teams.
Geographic Reach