Lucy Vernall

Funding CircleGeneral Counsel

Lucy Vernall is General Counsel and Chief People Officer at Funding Circle, a listed SME loans platform. Lucy graduated from Cambridge in 1992 and trained and spent her early years as a corporate lawyer at Frere Cholmeley Bischoff before becoming one of the founder members of Kemp Little LLP, a renowned technology focussed City law firm, where as head of corporate she advised both large financial services corporate clients and entrepreneurial fintech companies on transactions including M&A, equity and debt financing. She was managing partner of Kemp Little from 2009 to 2011 when she became the first General Counsel at Wonga. There she built up the company’s international legal team before joining Funding Circle in July 2014. At Funding Circle she is a member of the Global Leadership Team and runs the people, legal and compliance teams globally as well as the company secretarial team.