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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Partner operating in the Advice space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Marie Manley
Partner, Head of the UK Life Sciences Practice of Sidley Austin
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About Sidley Austin: Sidley is a law firm providing legal advising services for businesses.
Mateja Maher
Partner of Sidley Austin
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About Sidley Austin: Sidley is a law firm providing legal advising services for businesses.
Marc Deschamps
Managing Partner & Executive Chairman of Drake Star Partners
Marc Deschamps is Managing Partner & Executive Chairman of Drake Star Partners. Marc combines a highly successful internet entrepreneurial and corporate leadership track record, with an award-winning M&A career dedicated to the tech and internet sectors. Prior to Drake Star Partners, Marc co-founded LD&A Jupiter in 2004, leading over 70 M&A and private equity international transactions. Marc’s career is all committed to the growth of tech and internet companies. Prior to co-founding Drake Star Partners, Marc served as COO of British Telecom, where he led the broadband internet multi-billion-pound launch and roll out in the UK. He also was Chello NV’s Co-Founder, the first broadband ISP and one of the first unicorns in Europe. As such, Marc led Chello NV through a $1 billion IPO on NASDAQ and AEX before its sale to Liberty Global as part of the UPC group. He began his career in technology management roles at Logitech (launching innovative products) and Philips (European marketing of new media publishing CD-I, CD-ROM). He co-founded his first IT company at the age of 17 providing race series such as Formula 1, IndyCar and NASCAR with revolutionary timing IT. Marc is and was non-executive board director in multiple innovation companies including some of the leading Indian IT providers, Canadian new media pioneers and the first European wind power operator. Marc founded and invested in multiple IT and internet companies. Marc holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Polytechnique de Montréal in collaboration with Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Marc published research in Artificial Intelligence and received scholarships from National Research Council of Canada as well as Power Corp. Marc lives in London with 3 kids, is Canadian and British national, multilingual and lived in some 6 countries.
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About Drake Star Partners: Drake star partners is an international investment bank focusing on the technology, media and communications sectors.
Dominique Houde
Partner of Drake Star Partners
Dominique Houde is a Partner at Drake Star based in the firm’s Amsterdam and London offices. He is a senior finance executive in the technology and infrastructure mobility space with a background in international investment banking. Dominique brings over 15 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, along with deep vertical expertise in advanced mobility and automotive technology, both in the US and in Europe. Prior to joining Drake Star Partners, Dominique held several leadership roles with major players in the electric vehicle charging space, such as Allego (Netherlands/Germany/UK), ChargePoint (US) and Pod Point (UK). He also launched Autotech Ventures, the first independent automotive technology venture capital fund in Silicon Valley. Prior to these, Dominique was Director of Corporate Finance at Group Lotus, leading external finance initiatives and playing a key role in the carmaker’s turnaround plan, which included a $430 million syndicated loan raise to finance the group’s business plan. Dominique also held several senior roles at top-tier global investment banks. Most recently, he was Executive Director, Global Head of Automotive at Royal Bank of Scotland & ABN Amro, where he led the banks global advisory, debt and equity activities with large automotive clients. He also advised Renault SA on its purchase of 37% of Nissan Motors – a marquee M&A transaction in the automobile industry – while at Merrill Lynch. Dominique received his Master of Science in Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.
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About Drake Star Partners: Drake star partners is an international investment bank focusing on the technology, media and communications sectors.
Amanda Pilkington
Partner of DLA Piper
Amanda Pilkington is a partner in DLA Piper’s telecoms practice having joined the firm in 2005. She regularly advises telecoms operators on both regulatory and contracting issues. She has worked on some of the largest network outsourcing agreements in the UK and Europe. Her diverse experience includes advising international telecoms providers on terrestrial and subsea cable infrastructure projects; MVNO arrangements; and cable capacity agreements. She also regularly advising supplier and customer on managed services arrangements with a particularly focus on new technologies.
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About DLA Piper: DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries to helps clients with their legal needs around the world.
Bryony Widdup
Partner of DLA Piper
Bryony Widdup has over ten years’ experience in the financial markets sector and has spent time working in-house at a major European bank as well as in private practice. Bryony has lived and worked in London and the Cayman Islands. She has experience in fund finance, securitisation and leveraged debt, international lending platforms, crowdfunding and token based fundraising activities. She has particular expertise with financing aspects of offshore fund and issuer structures and managed accounts.
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About DLA Piper: DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries to helps clients with their legal needs around the world.
Martin Bartlam
Partner, specialising in Structured Finance and Securities and Global Co-chair Fintech of DLA Piper
Martin Bartlam is the International Group Head of Finance and Projects at DLA Piper. He advises on international structured deals and in particular the application of FinTech and new financing techniques to businesses, including, ICO’s, securitisation, capital markets products and derivatives. Martin Bartlam is recognised as one of the world’s leading FinTech lawyers applying technology solutions to traditional funding structures. Martin is at the forefront of alternative investment strategies and products including applying new financing techniques to suit the development of smart infrastructure and real estate development. Martin has helped clients to build and fund many new platforms involving digital solutions for real estate infrastructure, in the UK and cross-border. Martin is advising a number of businesses on Initial Coin Offerings and related financial structures including addressing regulatory and practical issues in raising funding and issuing tokens and presents a masterclass on blockchain and ICO issues and has presented to industry bodies such as the LMA, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, Insurance industry groups, the Global ABS conference and at various other finance industry events.
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About DLA Piper: DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries to helps clients with their legal needs around the world.
Alan Cunningham
Partner of DLA Piper
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About DLA Piper: DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries to helps clients with their legal needs around the world.
Alessandro Hatami
Managing Partner of Pacemakers.io
Alessandro is Managing Partner at Pacemakers. They provide independent advice to executive teams on selecting the right partners in order to convert digital strategies into commercial success. Previously, he was Group Innovation Director & COO Digital Banking at Lloyds Banking Group; MD of PayPoint.net, Director Large Merchant Services at PayPal & European Marketing Director at GE Capital. He is also a Board Advisor at CashPlus. He is a mentor of several FinTech start-ups working with Techstars, Seedcamp and Startupbootcamp. He is also an investor in several early stage companies.
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About Pacemakers.io: Digital Innovation in Financial Services.
Ashley Steel
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Ashley Steel is a former Vice Chairman at KPMG and was Global Chair for its transport, leisure and logistics practice until her retirement from the firm in September 2014. Ashley Steel has significant international experience and has advised numerous FTSE and Fortune 500 boards. Her other sector experience includes professional services, technology, media, business services and healthcare. Ashley Steel is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Civil Aviation Authority and serves on the International Business Advisory Board at British Airways. She is also Special Adviser to a global aviation technology company owned by Warburg Pincus and an Independent Non-Executive Director to global law firm, Ince & Co. Ashley has a PhD in Management from Henley Business School.
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About KPMG International Limited: KPMG is a network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services.
Joe Cassidy
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Joe Cassidy is the Partner at KPMG
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About KPMG International Limited: KPMG is a network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services.
Murray Raisbeck
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Murray is a Partner within KPMG’s FS practice. He has extensive FS audit and advisory experience. An auditor by background, Murray joined KPMG in 1999 and became a partner in 2011. Murray works with global financial services clients in the insurance, asset management and wealth management industries. As a result of all of the change underway in the sector Murray has been involved in working with clients that are dealing with evolving financial regulation (Solvency II and RDR being examples), changing technology (move to cloud based solutions and telematics being examples), societal changes (demands of an ageing population being an example), and more recently the impact of political risk on firms within the sector (recent pension reforms being an example). One current area of focus for Murray is the UK Motor insurance market. Murray is the audit partner for three of the UK’s market leading motor insurers and leading ‘usage based insurance’ (UBI) businesses. He is also frequently involved in discussions with industry bodies and a variety of firms developing their UBI strategy. He frequently comments on UBI developments in the press. Murray’s advisory experience includes finance change and regulatory programmes, Sarbanes Oxley implementation projects, accounting advice on group reconstructions, Part VII transfers, and a variety of transactions. His transaction experience includes ‘buy-side’ deal evaluation, due diligence, transaction regulatory and accounting support, IPO readiness services and synergies work.
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About KPMG International Limited: KPMG is a network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services.
Oliver Rochman
Partner of Morrison & Foerster
Oliver Rochman is a partner of Morrison & Foerster (International) LLP, based in the London office. His practice focuses on international private investment funds, in particular buy-out funds, infrastructure funds and funds of funds. Oliver has wide-ranging private investment fund experience, which includes providing counsel on carried interest arrangements and co-investment schemes, as well as fund restructuring, secondary transactions, and structured co-investments. He also has experience with private equity, venture capital, mezzanine, special situations, international structuring, investor negotiation, advising on regulatory and tax issues and coinvestment arrangements. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster in 2016, Oliver practiced at an international law firm’s office in London. During that appointment Oliver’s notable transactions included advising a European banking group on the sale of a portfolio of over US$1 billion of various fund interests in the private equity, energy, and venture capital space; acting for a sophisticated fund of funds manager in its participation in a large complex secondary transaction valued at over £1 billion; advising two Northern European focused fund managers on the establishment of respectively, a growth equity fund and a €1.1 billion buy-out fund; leading a team advising a multinational institutional investor on its private equity investment program, including analysis of terms against market and negotiation of investment documents; and advising on the establishment of a new European management entity and raising a first European debt fund for a traditionally U.S. focused private debt manager.
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About Morrison & Foerster: Morrison & Foerster is an international law firm that provides legal services across a range of industries and practices.
Ben Spiers
Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
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About Simpson Thacher & Bartlett: Simpson Thacher is a world renown law firm that caters to the fortune 500 companies.
Amy Mahon
Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Amy Mahon specialises in domestic and cross border M&A, domestic and international leverage buyouts, private equity, infrastructure and consortium transactions acting for financial sponsors including private eAmy Mahon specialises in domestic and cross border M&A, domestic and international leverage buyouts, private equity, infrastructure and consortium transactions acting for financial sponsors including private equity houses, infrastructure funds and investment banks. quity houses, infrastructure funds and investment banks.
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About Simpson Thacher & Bartlett: Simpson Thacher is a world renown law firm that caters to the fortune 500 companies.
Angus Ward
Partner and CEO, Digital Platform Solutions of BearingPoint
Angus is the CEO of BearingPoint’s digital platform solutions arm, BearingPoint//Beyond, appointed in September 2017. Angus brings 30 years of consulting and solutions experience to his role, supporting organizations across multiple industries in shaping strategies and adopting platform-based business and operating models with differentiating partner ecosystems. Key clients have included BP, BT, Boeing, Ministry of Defence and Tata Communications as well as key ecosystem partners like Amazon Web Services. Angus’ work takes him right across BearingPoint//Beyond’s core markets of APAC, EMEA and Americas. Angus’s extensive experience and knowledge over a range of fields has established him as a thought leader, quoted often by newspapers and prominent industry publications, on the topics of business model reinvention, digital platform business models and the role of the ecosystem in the evolving digital economy. Working closely and collaborating with industry bodies such as TM Forum, analysts, research firms and academic organizations such as MIT and Wharton, he regularly presents on the key trends and issues affecting telecoms and technology.
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About BearingPoint: BearingPoint offers management and technology consulting services that transforms businesses by creating customized solutions.
Emile Naus
Partner of BearingPoint
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About BearingPoint: BearingPoint offers management and technology consulting services that transforms businesses by creating customized solutions.
David Orman
Founding Partner of Hatch House
David has a unique and varied background across the worlds of venture capital, start-ups, marketing, digital media, entertainment and sport. David spent the early part of his career at Eurosport Television where he was Sales Director across the UK, US and Scandinavia. David has worked directly for some of the world’s most successful and high profile entrepreneurs at companies including 19 Entertainment, Joost, Queens Park Rangers FC, Templewood Merchant Bank and Outer Capital. David is currently: – VP at Kwamecorp Ventures (investing in start-ups), – Strategic Advisor at Streamhub (real time audience analytics for the media industry) – Non-Executive Director at Carabiner Partners (design agency) – Non-Executive Director at Odyssey Mobile Interaction (mobile advertising agency)
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About Hatch House: HATCH: Turning start-ups into businesses
Alex Gowar
Founding Partner of Hatch House
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About Hatch House: HATCH: Turning start-ups into businesses
Olivier Chambord
Partner of Morgan Lewis
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About Morgan Lewis: Morgan Lewis provides comprehensive litigation, merger and acquisition, finance & restructuring.
Simon Currie
Partner of Morgan Lewis
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About Morgan Lewis: Morgan Lewis provides comprehensive litigation, merger and acquisition, finance & restructuring.
Mike Pierides
Partner of Morgan Lewis
Mike Pierides’s practice encompasses a wide breadth of commercial and technology transactions. He advises on major outsourcings, strategic restructurings following divestments or acquisitions, and technology-specific transactions such as licensing and “as a service” arrangements. He is also active advising on new technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Within the financial services sector, he advises a wide range of clients, including retail banks, investment banks, investment managers, payments providers, and others. Mike has also worked at the intersection of financial services compliance and technology, advising clients on their related systems and compliance procedures. Mike represents both customers and suppliers, allowing him to bring opposing parties’ perspectives to transactions. His key experience includes representing a global bank on the restructuring of its multi-jurisdictional hosting arrangements, representing clients in the procurement of ‘hybrid’ IT arrangements, including private and public cloud arrangements, and advising a global asset manager on the restructuring of its service and customer contracts following a corporate divestment.
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About Morgan Lewis: Morgan Lewis provides comprehensive litigation, merger and acquisition, finance & restructuring.
Jonathan McClory
Partner of Sanctuary Counsel
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About Sanctuary Counsel: Sanctuary Counsel provides strategic communications and reputational advice to businesses, family offices, governments and individuals.
Prahlad Koti
Partner of Netcompany A/S
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About Netcompany A/S: Netcompany is an IT consulting company.
Christopher Rose
Partner, Head of Europe Venture Technology Group of Dentons
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About Dentons: Dentons is a global law firm driven to provide you with the competitive edge in an increasingly complex
Christopher Rose
Partner, Head of Europe Venture Technology Group of Dentons
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About Dentons: Dentons is a global law firm driven to provide you with the competitive edge in an increasingly complex
Elle Todd
Partner of Reed Smith
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About Reed Smith: Reed Smith is a law firm, representing many companies in complex litigation and other high-stakes disputes and more.
Marcus Dodds
Partner of Reed Smith
Marcus is an English solicitor and partner in the international law firm of Reed Smith LLP. He is both a litigator and a transactional lawyer who specialises in maritime and energy matters, with a particular focus on LNG. Before becoming a lawyer, he served in the Merchant Marine, as deck officer and ultimately Captain on a variety of ship types, including gas carriers. He is also a member of Lloyd’s Register’s Classification Committee the only body that is entitled to assign, suspend or withdraw class from entered ships.
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About Reed Smith: Reed Smith is a law firm, representing many companies in complex litigation and other high-stakes disputes and more.
Shaun Lascelles
Partner, M&A and Private Equity of Vinson & Elkins
Shaun’s practice focuses on cross-border M&A and private equity work. He has extensive experience advising a broad range of private equity firms, hedge funds, state-owned investment funds and other investment funds.
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About Vinson & Elkins: Vinson & Elkins offers clients renowned legal excellence as well as efficiency and deep market intelligence
Antony Northrop
Co-founder / Managing Partner of NOR Capital
Antony Northrop led many high-profile Capital Raising and M&A transactions in the TMT sector (both Public and Private). He previously founded M&A boutique Touchstone Securities (acquired by GP Bullhound). He was also a Partner at Lazard Brothers, and Executive Committee Member at SBCI / UBS, having originally trained at J.P. Morgan.
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About NOR Capital: NOR Capital is a Pan-European Corporate Finance advisory firm focused on the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) sectors
Florent Roulet
Co-founder / Partner of NOR Capital
Florent Roulet has numerous years of transaction experience in both TMT Principal Investments and Corporate Finance advisory. He was previously with UBS’ Strategic Investments team, in TMT M&A with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and with established Corporate Finance boutiques GP Bullhound and Bryan Garnier, advising from early-stage companies to very large global firms.
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About NOR Capital: NOR Capital is a Pan-European Corporate Finance advisory firm focused on the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) sectors
Bernardine Adkins
Partner of Gowling WLG
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About Gowling WLG: Gowling WLG is a multinational law firm formed by the merger of Canada-based Gowlings and UK-based Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co
Ameet Gill
Partner of Hanbury Strategy
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About Hanbury Strategy: Hanbury is a new strategic advisory firm.
Paul Stephenson
Partner of Hanbury Strategy
Paul joined the BBA in December 2012 and leads the BBA’s communications programme, government affairs strategy in the UK and EU, website and publishing. Previously, Paul worked as a Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Transport. Prior to the 2010 election Paul worked at the Conservative Party’s headquarters for two years as a press officer and has a background in political campaigns and think-tanks.
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About Hanbury Strategy: Hanbury is a new strategic advisory firm.
Melissa Fogarty
Partner & Co-head of Corporate, London of Clifford Chance
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About Clifford Chance: Clifford Chance is a multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.
Simon Gleeson
Partner of Clifford Chance
Simon Gleeson specialises in banking and financial markets law and regulation, clearing, settlement and derivatives. Simon’s experience includes advising governments, regulators and public bodies as well as banks, investment firms, fund managers and other financial institutions on a wide range of regulatory issues. He is described by all of the major legal directories as one of the world’s leading experts in financial services and banking regulation, capital markets and derivatives. He is one of the lead legal advisors to the main UK banking and financial services industry bodies regarding Brexit. In addition to his private practice, Simon is heavily engaged in the development of law and policy in finance. He chairs the Institute for International Finance’s cross-border resolution committee, and is generally regarded as one of the intellectual leaders in the post-crisis reform of financial regulatory and resolution law, having worked with national and international bodies to develop the “bail-in” concept. He has been called to give evidence to UK and EU parliamentary committees, and has worked closely with other legislators around the world (including G-20 governments). He advised the World Economic Forum on its 2009 Report on The New Global Financial Architecture, and was involved in the establishment of the UK’s Banking Standards Board. Simon has lectured at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities, and at King’s College London, the LSE and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary Westfield London. He is currently a visiting Professor at Edinburgh University, a member of the bank resolution project of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and has been elected a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College Oxford.
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About Clifford Chance: Clifford Chance is a multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.
Immanuel Rubin
Partner of Campbell Lutyens
Immanuel Rubin is a Partner of Campbell Lutyens & Co. Ltd. since July 2014. Immanuel Rubin served as a Senior Vice President at Campbell Lutyens & Co. Ltd. Immanuel advises across the range of the firm’s activities with a particular focus on secondary transactions. Prior to joining Campbell Lutyens, Immanuel worked in the Corporate Finance department of ABN AMRO in London where he was part of the M&A execution team. He holds a master’s degree from the Accounting and Finance department of the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in management from UMIST. Immanuel speaks fluent German.
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About Campbell Lutyens: Campbell Lutyens is an independent private equity advisory firm founded in 1988 focused on private equity and infrastructure fund
Ben Pearce
Partner of Campbell Lutyens
Ben is a Principal in Campbell Lutyens’ secondary advisory team and has since 2007 advised a wide range of clients on the sale or restructuring of portfolios of Private Equity fund and direct interests. Prior to joining Campbell Lutyens, Ben worked in the strategic management consulting practice of Accenture where he worked on a number of strategic financial projects involving global institutions. He graduated with a first class master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Warwick.
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About Campbell Lutyens: Campbell Lutyens is an independent private equity advisory firm founded in 1988 focused on private equity and infrastructure fund
Steve Sharpe
Partner & MD, SLB Capital Management of SLB Capital Group
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About SLB Capital Group: SLB Capital Group is an advisory and management group that offers professional services and solutions to institutions and individuals.
Shruti Ajitsaria
Partner and Head of Fuse of Allen & Overy
Shruti is Partner and the Head of Fuse, Allen & Overy’s tech innovation space which opened in September 2017. Prior to launching Fuse, Shruti was a Counsel in the Derivatives and Structured Finance group based in London, specialising in credit derivatives (involving drafting almost all of the standard documentation in this area over the last decade). Shruti is now the first person to have directly been promoted to partner into A&O’s Advanced Delivery offering and is on A&O’s i2 panel and Advanced Delivery Board (tasked with authorising funding for pilots and larger projects, respectively). Outside of Allen & Overy, Shruti has three children (aged 9, 7, and 3) and used her most recent maternity leave to undertake the FT Diploma in Non-Executive Directorships and a 3 month course for entrepreneurs at Google Campus, as well as being selected to partake in the Judicial Support Scheme (aimed at increasing diversity in the judiciary). She is a governor at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s Schools in Elstree, a member of the Fundraising Committee of Noah’s Ark Hospice and a TEDx speaker. She also manages a sector-agnostic portfolio of private investments and appeared on BBC 2’s “Million Pound Menu” as a restaurant investor.
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About Allen & Overy: Allen & Overy is an international law firm providing legal services for global business and industry.
Garth Shephard
Founder & Partner of 72 Capital Limited
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About 72 Capital Limited: Boutique M&A, fundraising and strategic adviser to the small and mid-cap technology, digital media and sport sectors.
Bridget Treacy
Partner of Hunton & Williams LLP
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About Hunton & Williams LLP: Hunton & Williams LLP is a global law firm with more than 750 lawyers practicing across the United States.
Jeremy Robinson
Partner of Harcus Parker
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About Harcus Parker: Harcus Parker is a litigation firm that specializes in bringing group action cases on behalf of large numbers of individuals or companies.
Michael Newell
Partner of Cadwalader Wickersham and Taft
Mike Newell is a partner in Cadwalader’s Financial Services Group, resident in the London office. Mike has extensive experience in advising clients in the asset management industry and, in particular, on the establishment and reorganization of onshore and offshore collective investment vehicles. He helps both household names and innovative startups set up new businesses and products in both the mainstream and alternative sectors, and is particularly experienced in advising in relation to hedge, private equity and real asset funds, as well as retail mutual funds, UK-listed investment companies and structured products. He also advises asset managers in relation to general corporate and regulatory matters and institutional investors on their private fund investments and secondary sales. Mike is a member of the European Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles’ (INREV) Public Affairs Committee and was a member of the FSA’s legal expert group and of the technical committees of a number of industry bodies dealing with the implementation of the AIFM Directive. In Chambers and Partners, Mike has been variously described as “practical and effective” and noted for his ability to “keep calm with lots happening,” having “a well-established reputation in the structuring and reorganization of onshore and offshore collective investment vehicles” and for being especially “renowned for his real estate funds expertise.” Mike is admitted to practice in England and Wales.
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About Cadwalader Wickersham and Taft: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP is New York City’s oldest law firm and one of the oldest continuously operating legal practices
David Escoffier
Partner of Eighteen East Capital
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About Eighteen East Capital: Eighteen East Capital connects impact investing to the capital markets to unlock additional pools of capital.
Anatoli Kaminov
Founding Partner of Eaton Capital
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About Eaton Capital: Eaton Capital provides business valuations, M&A management, transaction structuring and strategic advisory services for various industries.
Manish Shah
Partner of Phoenix Accountancy
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About Phoenix Accountancy: Phoenix Accountancy provides business advisory, accountancy, and tax services to SMEs.
Joe Kim
Managing Director/Partner of UPIN Fund Management
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About UPIN Fund Management, XnTree: UPIN is an investment and management consulting firm that helps to optimize its clients’ business solutions and meet its goals.
Mark Lockie
Managing Director, Landmark Identity, Strategic Advisor, Science Media Partners of Landmark Identity
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