‘What makes a photograph is the light – you’ve got to get everything else there, but if the light isn’t right it will never work.’ Freshfields senior partner Edward Braham has taken photographs all his life. The walls of his office are covered with photographs from his trips to South Africa, Paris, Kyoto and Tanzania. …
‘Being open about my experience has not held back my career. If anything, it’s enhanced my relationship with my colleagues and clients.’ In 2015 Herbert Smith Freehills pension partner Samantha Brown suffered a depressive episode. She returned to work after three months, but found herself off again because she had not fully recovered. Brown …
‘It’s the stigma that stops people talking and that same stigma prevents anyone else from learning.’ In 2011, then Speechly Bircham partner Richard Martin suffered a major panic attack followed by a breakdown and almost two years of therapy. Having left City law, Martin now works for workplace and HR consultancy Byrne Dean, …
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‘This is a hard career, but everything’s hard. Work hard, be the better you and enjoy yourself.’ In 2012 White & Case’s global private equity co-head Ian Bagshaw lost his younger brother, Dan, then aged just 27. He died suddenly on the finish line of an ITU Olympic distance triathlon in Hong Kong. …
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Herbert Smith Freehills, Shearman & Sterling, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and Reed Smith have also taken places on Deutsche Bank’s controversial new legal panel.
Amos Carrington Head of legal SEVEN ENERGY Formerly of Herbert Smith Freehills in both London and Tokyo, the ten-year qualified Amos Carrington is already head of legal at Seven Energy, the leading integrated gas company in Nigeria, with upstream oil and gas interests in the region.
Marco Boldini Director – European regulatory counsel ETF SECURITIES (UK) Marco Boldini serves as European regulatory counsel at ETF Securities, an asset management house focused on exchange-traded funds (ETFs), exchange-traded commodities (commodity ETCs) and exchange-traded currencies (currency ETCs) with offices in Jersey, London, New York, Sydney and Hong Kong. Based in London, Boldini is responsible …
Samantha Sawyer Legal director AMEY Since 2008, Samantha Sawyer has worked for infrastructure service provider Amey, a subsidiary of Spanish multinational Ferrovial. Sawyer is now legal director and sits as a member of the executive team on two of Amey’s core business units, Highways and Consulting and Rail, which together account for around half the …
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Phil Hagan Group legal director PHOENIX GROUP 2016 was undoubtedly a standout year for Phil Hagan, who is primarily responsible for a team of two other lawyers who deal with corporate activity, including M&A, corporate finance and pensions. There are 14 lawyers in the overall Phoenix Group.
Amanda Miller Collins Vice president and lead European counsel SHIRE As a UK-focused, Irish-headquartered entity with operational headquarters in the US, primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and a secondary listing on Nasdaq, Shire’s legal team needs a lot of cross-border expertise. The former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer lawyer Amanda Miller Collins has been part …
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