July/August 2024

Georgina Stanley

Leigh Partridge – Managing director, head of legal (Europe), CPP Investments Year of qualification: 2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, 2006-17 CPP…

Georgina Stanley

Melanie Sanchez – Global general counsel, investments, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Clayton Utz, 2005-06 Blake, Cassels & Graydon, 2006-14 Ontario…

Georgina Stanley

Rachel Thompson – Partner and group general counsel, Bridgepoint Year of qualification: 2007 Clifford Chance, 2005-09 Bridgepoint, 2010-present It was…

Georgina Stanley

Susanna Berger – Managing director, general counsel for Europe, KKR & Co Year of qualification: 2002 University of Chicago Law…

Georgina Stanley

Babett Carrier – General counsel, Cinven Shearman & Sterling, 1996-2012 Arma Partners, 2013-14 Cinven, 2015-present I come from a family…

Georgina Stanley

From dating apps to entertainment venues, airports to music collections, there’s almost no industry left untouched by the multitrillion-dollar private…

Legal Business

‘I’d rather have a say; I don’t want that late call on a Friday night when something has happened –…

Ben Wheway

‘Challenging market conditions’ – a quick search of the LB news archives finds that phrase, or some variation of it,…

Georgina Stanley

What does it take to run the legal team in one of the most profitable deal shops in the world?…

Georgina Stanley

‘No-one should be under any illusion that the hours are fewer, or the work less demanding. You don’t have the…

Cameron Purse

‘The industry has changed massively. When we started, we were working with single product mid-cap PE shops, and these have…

Elisha Juttla

From the age of 10 I knew that I wanted to be a lawyer. The first lawyer I ever met…

Tanya Drobnis

More than 10,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia first invaded in February 2022 according to the UN.…