
Retail: in-house management
GC meets with Amy Holt, senior commercial lawyer at UK retailer John Lewis, to discuss how the commercial legal team works with the business, and the company’s unique partnership structure.
It’s mid-December when I pay a visit to John Lewis, and as I’m waiting in the foyer of the aptly named Partnership House, I notice that most head office staff are sporting Christmas jumpers. When senior commercial lawyer Amy Holt arrives to greet me, she too is decked out in festive knitwear – putting paid to any notions of stuffiness in the retail chain’s commercial legal team.