CV Overview
I am a UK lawyer (barrister, called to the bar in 1989). From 1991 to 2006, I worked as an in-house lawyer at top investment banks (Deustche Bank and J.P.Morgan), covering a wide range of banking and financial issues, with a special focus on derivatives/structured finance and emerging markets.
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In 2006 I founded and grew a professional services firm in the UK and Switzerland. In 2011, I founded and grew an agricultural business in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. I continued to operate as both in-house lawyer and commercial director for these businesses, dealing with a broad range of legal and commercial issues.
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CEDR trained and accredited independent mediator (2020 – to date)
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Cool Bananas Limited (2011 – to date)
Business owner, chief executive, and general counsel of Cool Bananas Limited, which is the largest producer of bananas in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. The business has two further plantations, growing citrus (oranges & mandarins) and Eucalyptus gum trees for transmission poles. Cool Bananas is a significant local employer, employing over 400 people from the local community, always using fair and up-to-date working practices. All our produce is sold directly into local markets to the benefit of the local food supply, and we consistently aim to operate along FAO’s ‘Good Agricultural Practices’ for the banana industry.
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RAH Partners Limited (2006 – to date)
Business owner, chief operating officer and general counsel of a professional services firm providing executive search, leadership advisory, and coaching services to its financial services clients, particularly in wealth and asset management and family offices.
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J.P.Morgan (2001 – 2006)
In-house lawyer. Senior member of EMEA legal department, providing product structuring and legal risk management to the investment bank’s fixed income, equities, foreign exchange, and emerging market businesses.
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Deutsche Bank AG (1995 – 2000)
In-house lawyer. Head of Trading & Derivatives Legal Department, providing product structuring and legal risk management to the investment bank’s fixed income, equities, foreign exchange, and emerging market businesses.
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Westpac Banking Corporation (1993 – 1995)
In-house lawyer, providing legal advice in respect of wide range of traded products, including OTC derivatives, FX /FX options and Repo transactions.
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Crédit Agricole CIB (1990 – 1993)
In-house lawyer, providing legal advice in relation to a wide range of the bank’s activities, including loans, private banking, trade finance, project finance, FX/derivatives and securities lending.
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Called to the bar of England and Wales (qualified as barrister) (1989)