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Liyen is a senior technology lawyer with extensive legal experience working for a wide range of digital companies including internet portals, search engines, social media sites, software companies, mobile app developers, telecommunications providers and online games websites.

She has particular expertise in commercial contracts, e-commerce, data protection, intellectual property and consumer regulations. She has comprehensive industry and legal insights from her time as General Counsel and a member of the management board of Yahoo! UK with responsibility for all legal and regulatory matters. As head of European Compliance, she also lead EU-wide legal compliance and data protection teams.

One of Liyen’s key strengths is her ability to communicate effectively and explain complex legal concepts in plain English. She has a client and business friendly manner and works well with business and product teams.

Meredith is a senior commercial and technology lawyer with strong expertise in FinTech and broad experience both in transactional and strategic matters.

Having spent a number of years in inhouse, in private practice and in a financial services regulator, she has significant legal experience in information technology, intellectual property, media, financial services, m-commerce, public policy and disruptive technology. She has worked inhouse in the digital, FinTech, advertising, and telecommunications sectors.

Meredith is a strong communicator, experienced in briefing executive teams and designing creative and practical solutions to complex problems. She was recently a part of the executive team behind M-PESA - the world’s leading mobile money transfer and payments service.

Hermione is a technology, commercial and data protection lawyer with extensive experience advising businesses and financial institutions on data protection, intellectual property and commercial contracts.

Hermione has worked with ecommerce, media and technology companies in Edinburgh and London and more recently has worked with clients to help them take steps to get ready for GDPR. Previously, she worked at two major start-up businesses: boo.com (during the dot com boom and bust) and setting up the mobile phone company, 3.  

Hermione takes a common sense approach and strives to work closely with her business clients to achieve realistic commercial objectives and to drive projects forward.  She was also project manager and successfully designed and implemented a major CRM system for a national law firm.  Hermione teaches law at Edinburgh University and is a mentor for RBS Entrepreneurial Spark.   She is qualified in English law and is familiar with advising companies in Scotland and England.  

Sam is a corporate and commercial lawyer with significant strategic, legal and commercial experience, both in-house and in private practice. She has broad experience of information technology, e-commerce, commercial contracts, FinTech and data privacy. She has had a successful career in the City, as a partner at leading law firm Lovells (now Lovells Hogan) and helping them to set up and build their project finance practice.  She brings over 12 years of experience as a General Counsel for OB10 and Tungsten PLC, as a member of the executive team and providing support to the Board. She managed business, legal and reputational risk while leading the legal team and overseeing compliance, corporate governance, co-sec and HR.

Sam has a proven track record of project and team leadership, change management, structuring effective in-house legal processes and running complex projects including GDPR, implementing AIM compliance, overseas and UK acquisitions (including completion and integration of the acquisition of a UK bank). Sam works closely with businesses to provide clear, pragmatic, commercial and strategic advice.

Candy is a senior commercial lawyer with a particular focus in the fintech, payments and e-money space. Her expertise was honed in her previous inhouse roles at  high growth businesses such as WorldPay and TransferWise, helping them to solve many legal and strategic challenges. She is adept at negotiating and closing major strategic partnerships; securing direct memberships with international card schemes; overhauling and simplifying global customer agreements and preparing for the introduction of new legislation such as the Payment Services Directive 2. She has also been pivotal in securing major investments from venture capital and pension funds.

Candy has a client and business friendly approach and enjoys working closely with product teams from the development stage to full global launch. Most recently, she helped a product team to launch a borderless account, an e-money product which allows users to hold balances in multiple currencies.

Jonathan is a highly experienced lawyer and General Counsel with wide expertise across a number of industries.  He was a partner at renowned firm Carter Rucks, litigator at the BBC, European General Counsel at Yahoo! and General Counsel at Vodafone Ltd.

In addition to his deep legal knowledge, he is an insightful leader and passionate about promoting the issues of inhouse lawyers across industry.  He has provided solutions-oriented leadership training, ranging from managing a legal team and their progression, to mastering the balance that a General Counsel must achieve between their compliance responsibilities and their role as part of the management team.

Jonathan is particularly adept at focussed planned mentoring for General Counsels and their teams, enabling them to achieve professional success whilst serving their business needs in the best way possible.

Mark is a UK employment lawyer with particular expertise across EMEA.  He advises a range of UK and international clients and is equally adept at advising start-ups or large multinationals with multi-jurisdictional issues in a wide range of business sectors ranging from internet media to telecommunications and other digital technologies.

With over 20 years’ experience in private practice and in industry, Mark’s expertise spans a broad portfolio of employment law matters notably the setting up of UK and EMEA offices (including preparing employment contracts and employee handbooks), executive agreements, business restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, terminations, in/outsourcing, policy development, and data privacy. 

As Associate General Counsel at Nortel Networks, he had responsibility for Global Employment Law and more recently, he was EMEA Employment Counsel at Yahoo.