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SHOOSMITHS | HEADLINE SPONSOR

Shoosmiths is the law firm clients choose for excellent service, incisive thinking and above all for its ability to focus on what matters. From offices across the UK and Brussels, the firm supports some of the world’s most exciting and ambitious businesses; amazing clients making an impact.

Shoosmiths is committed to excellence and innovation and this is embodied in the firm’s non-legal solutions for clients, which complement its technical legal expertise.

The firm supports the communities in which it operates and the Science Based Targets initiative has validated its emissions reduction targets. To find out more, visit: Impact report 2023.

KLDISCOVERY | GOLD SPONSOR

KLDiscovery provides technology-enabled services and software to help law firms, corporations, and government agencies solve complex data challenges. With 26 locations across 17 countries, KLDiscovery is a global leader in delivering best-in-class data management, information governance, eDiscovery, and advisory services solutions to support the litigation, regulatory compliance, and internal investigation needs of clients. In addition, through its global Ontrack data management business, KLDiscovery delivers world-class data recovery, disaster recovery, email extraction and restoration, data destruction, and tape management. Visit www.kldiscovery.com to learn more.

FRESHFIELDS | GOLD SPONSOR

Freshfields is a global law firm offering high-value, strategic advice, integrated across practice areas and locations throughout Europe, Asia and the US. Our multi-jurisdictional sustainability and ESG team advise on fundamental risks and opportunities, including those related to disclosure, stakeholder activism, governance and litigation risks, as well as the transactional and dispute issues that arise both in day-to-day operations and long-term strategic planning. Our own environmental goals are long-standing; we have offset our emissions since 2007 and have published ambitious science-based targets to drive our emissions downwards to net zero.

ADDLESHAW GODDARD | SILVER SPONSOR

Addleshaw Goddard is a premium international law firm. We’re trusted by over 3000 major organisations, including over 50 FTSE 100 companies, to solve problems, deliver deals, defend rights, comply with regulations and mitigate risk. Our work spans more than 50 areas of business law, paving the way to deliver the best possible outcomes for clients. Appointed time and again across multiple industries, and named the most Digital Law Firm in Europe by the Financial Times, we help our clients to do business, operate and grow – effectively and safely – in over 100 countries worldwide. And while the challenges they bring us vary, we approach and solve each with the same, single-minded focus: finding the smartest way to achieve the biggest impact.

FRY AND BROWN | SILVER SPONSOR

We’re Jane Fry and Tracy Brown, accomplished and approachable legal recruiters for the financial services sector.

We have worked together for over 15 years and we’re proud to be two of the most experienced consultants in our field. We know the market inside out and we think creatively to source the very best talent. Our established network gives you a head start and we’re 100% committed to placing legal professionals in-house. We take the time to really get to know you and we develop career-long relationships with people, becoming your partner from the outset.

OSBORNE CLARKE | SILVER SPONSOR

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1300 lawyers in 26 locations*. We’ve been providing strategic and on-point advice for more than 250 years and we have a presence across Europe, Asia and the US. Our clients range from well-known market leaders to disruptive, high-growth start-ups. We take a 3D approach, providing clients with legal advice that is strengthened by sector insight and a deep understanding of the global trends driving transformation. Our goal is simple: to help our clients succeed in tomorrow’s world. That means our focus goes beyond the here and now. We look ahead to the challenges, opportunities and trends that are on the horizon. *Services in India are provided by a relationship firm

ASTREA | SILVER SPONSOR

Astraea Group is a special situations legal and professional services firm, providing partner-led strategic counsel, leveraging multidisciplinary capabilities to help clients in their time of need. In an era of heightened risks and unprecedented opportunities, Astraea Group helps clients navigate an increasingly complex landscape of legal, commercial, regulatory and reputational challenges. Astraea Group Is redefining how legal and professional services are consumed. Through a collaborative and inclusive model, we curate the right team, tapping into a network of leading specialists globally. Astraea Group is not just a legal and professional services firm; we are catalysts for change, shaping a future where clients achieve their desired outcomes with unparalleled efficiency and effectiveness.

BLAKE MORGAN | ROUNDTABLE SPONSOR

Blake Morgan is a full service law firm with offices across the UK. We are trusted advisers to many leading players, including international and national corporate organisations, central government, major high street and corporate banks and retailers. We advise boards, in-house counsel and business owners on all aspects of their legal and business needs. Our clients tell us that what sets us apart from other law firms is our understanding of their business goals and challenges, our human touch and our in-depth knowledge of the markets in which they operate. Our legal teams, many of whom have worked in house, take a commercial approach to providing relevant, realistic legal solutions. Visit website: https://www.blakemorgan.co.uk/

FREETHS | ROUNDTABLE SPONSOR

Freeths is a top UK full service law firm with a global reach. Our mantra is to provide answers and solutions for clients rather than legal essays. We are used to supporting in-house teams in all areas of the business. Our innovative approach allows us to offer creative solutions, with a focus on understanding client needs and delivering tangible results. You can rely on our trusted lawyers to be timely, commercially-minded and practical. Freeths have won a number of awards including The Lawyer and Legal Week’s Litigation Team of the Year 2020/21 for representing the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance in the largest miscarriage of justice in English legal history where we secured a group litigation order of £58 million against the Post Office (as recently portrayed in the ITV series Mr Bates v Post Office). Clients include Aldi, Centrica, Lloyds Bank, Travis Perkins, Eddie Stobart, Experian, and London Luton Airport

LEXIS NEXIS | ROUNDTABLE SPONSOR

LexisNexis combines the latest technological innovation with unrivalled legal content. Built around our deep understanding of the in-house legal profession, our legal intelligence helps you to add value, manage risk and build a reputation for trusted and timely advice. LexisNexis now brings in-house teams the power to access both Legal Research and Practical Guidance in one platform, Lexis+ UK. Our Banking & Finance Practical Guidance includes key developments and horizon scanning, quick-start guides, our International Comparator Tool and so much more, alongside our unique Legal Research content, such as Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law.

DELOITTE LEGAL | ROUNDTABLE SPONSOR

Where legal meets business.

Blending business experience and legal excellence, we deliver comprehensive solutions designed to address the evolving needs of the General Counsel.
Business solutions built on legal excellence.

As General Counsel, you are demonstrating value and delivering on business outcomes every day. You are expected to impact revenue and growth, manage risk, and lower costs. And you are taking on a more pronounced and integrated role in company decisions—from the onset. Legal is becoming an essential enabler of the business.

That’s why you and your executive colleagues need a business partner pulling in the same direction. Deloitte Legal professionals see the law as empowering, not confining. The firm helps you to address the issues that matter most to your organisation. It brings business solutions to legal issues and legal solutions to business issues. Plain and simple.
And with Deloitte, you get more. Deloitte is at the forefront of emerging technologies, including Generative AI, and continues to build its strong tech-forward reputation. The firm brings lawyers with experience in technology as well as legal consultants and technologists with access to decades of industry knowledge.

With its global reach and proven approach, Deloitte Legal navigates the ever-shifting legal and business terrain with its clients —supporting you every step of the way through unprecedented change and transformation.

MRA SEARCH | ROUNDTABLE SPONSOR

MRA Search is an international legal search firm, with offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Milan. Our focus is on providing a reliable and professional service and we have built a strong track record of success.

With decades of experience in the legal industry, we act as trusted advisers to some of the world’s leading law firms and companies. Our consultants focus on successfully placing lawyers and legal professionals in London, across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and numerous offshore jurisdictions.

Based on the bedrock of an excellent research team and a comprehensive database, we are at the forefront of the market, helping leading law firms and in-house legal teams with their recruitment strategies.

We differentiate ourselves from our competition by our professionalism, our market knowledge, the effectiveness of our recruitment process, and the accountability we offer at every stage of a search. With decades of experience in the legal industry, our consultants work on retained and contingent assignments for US and UK law firms and household names across commerce and industry and financial services.

Our in-house team operates at the very top of the market. We have built a reputation for delivering excellence to our clients across financial services and commerce and industry (from start-ups through to FTSEs), growing their legal, governance and compliance teams globally.

We regularly advise clients on their long-term recruitment strategy from hiring their first in-house lawyer and building out a legal function, to senior hires including General Counsel at both group and regional level.

GOWLING WLG | NETWORKING SPONSOR

Gowling WLG is a sector focused international law firm. With more than 1,400 legal professionals in cities worldwide, we provide our clients with in-depth expertise in key global sectors and a suite of legal services at home and abroad. We see the world through our clients’ eyes, and collaborate across countries, offices, service areas and sectors to help them succeed, no matter how challenging the circumstances. Learn more at gowlingwlg.com.

DENTONS | NETWORKING SPONSOR

As the world’s largest law firm with more people in more places than any of our competitors, Dentons provides in-house teams with expert advice across a range of integrated services and locations. Our full-service approach and deep roots in the communities in which we operate enable us to deliver tailored solutions to our clients’ most complex legal and business challenges. We work on prominent transactions and disputes with innovation and commercial expertise at the heart of what we do and have advised on some of the most significant deals, disputes and advisory matters in domestic and global markets.

INTERPATH | SUMMIT SPONSOR

Interpath’s purpose is to create, defend, preserve, sustain and grow value. We have offices that span the globe with teams focused on supporting businesses, their investors and stakeholders with advisory and restructuring services. Interpath proudly works with companies of all sizes, from SMEs to some of the largest organisations on the planet. Whatever your challenge or opportunity, our market leading people are here to guide you forward. Interpath combines the energy, ambition and agility of a young organisation with the experience and quality of a Big 4 firm.