Lawrence Grabau

Pizza Hut EuropeChief Legal Officer

Lawrence is Chief Legal Officer for Pizza Hut UK and Europe (Yum! Brands) where he is responsible for all legal and regulatory matters across 25 jurisdictions with more than 1400 stores. Lawrence also sits on the European leadership team. Lawrence reports into the Managing Director for Pizza Hut Europe and Canada and the Global General Counsel. Lawrence leads a team of 6.
Prior to Pizza Hut, Lawrence worked as Head of Legal for KFC Western Europe (Yum! Brands) sitting on leadership teams in Iberia, Germany and Italy.
Before his career at Yum! Brands Lawrence worked as a corporate finance lawyer at McDermott Will & Emery (London, with secondments in Brussels and Geneva), Norton Rose Fulbright (London) and EY (London) specialising in all aspects of franchising and corporate law, including public and private company M&A, joint ventures, IPOs and fund-raising for listed companies in a range of sectors with a focus in the FMCG sector.