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.

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.

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.

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.

LEX MUNDI | ROUNDTABLE SPONSOR

Lex Mundi is the world’s leading network of independent law firms. It brings the best together – law firms, lawyers, and business professionals – in more than 125 countries to provide world-class cross-border legal solutions. Our member firms offer a global resource of unmatched breadth and depth, with over 23,000 lawyers worldwide.