Christy Baker

FirstGroupGroup Legal Director

Christy Baker joined FirstGroup as Group Legal Adviser in May 2010, promoted to UK Legal Director in November 2016. He has day-to-day responsibility for all UK legal issues, providing support to the plc senior management and the UK Rail and Bus divisions. He also supports the international business development team, including work in India and elsewhere. His work covers a wide range of areas, including acquisitions & disposals, disputes, commercial contracts, data protection/GDPR, competition, health & safety cases, bidding and bribery/fraud, as well as providing more general strategic support to management on a range of commercial issues. He is also responsible for the Group’s core compliance programme, including the implementation of GDPR compliance, and chairs the anti-bribery steering committee. He has a small team of lawyers reporting into him. Before joining FirstGroup, he spent nine years at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, as a trainee and then for 7 years in their antitrust, competition & trade team, including secondments to BT and to Freshfields Hong Kong office. Christy was named as a “Rising Star” in the GC Powerlist 2017″.