The Bundle: June 2022

Johanna Carlsson is the VP Legal at Fortum, where she is also a board member. Before joining Fortum, Johanna was the Head of Legal at Klarna, where she spent five years.

Johanna is a commercial lawyer with more than 15 years of experience drafting, negotiating, and managing high-value contracts.

Leigh Kirkpatrick is the Managing Legal Counsel at Natwest Group, with a history of holding legal positions at financial institutions. Before joining Natwest, Leigh spent five years at RBS where she was Senior Legal Counsel. Leigh first trained and qualified at Brodies LLP.

Leigh was also named the “Legal Adviser of the Year” at the Women in Finance Awards in 2017, and in 2015, she won the Law Society of Scotland’s In-house Rising Star award.

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Sam Ruback is the General Counsel at Thirdfort where he leads the group's legal team and manages all things risk, compliance and regulation. Before joining Thirdfort, Sam was the Legal Counsel at WorldRemit, and the Head of Legal at Generation Home. He originally trained as a Solicitor with Mishcon de Reya LLP, a prestigious law firm.

Lucy Ashenhurst is the General Counsel and People Ops Lead at CUR8, as well as a Fractional General Counsel for businesses like Heuris Energy and Givematch, where she advises on corporate, commercial and employment matters. Lucy has held roles as General Counsel at several other businesses on a full-time basis, including Origen, where she helped set up the People & Culture function. Before that Lucy was at Omnipresent, where she was the tenth employee and built the legal function from scratch.

Giles Hawkins is the Chief Legal Officer at Form3, where he also holds roles as the Group Company Secretary and Head of Risk. Giles has more than 20 years of experience in the high-growth technology sector, and he specializes in areas like fundraising, commercial law, negotiations, and M&A. Before joining Form3, Giles was a Partner at Ashfords LLP, a legal practice.

Maryam is an experienced General Counsel and board advisor with a strong track record in scaling unicorn tech companies, overseeing $300m in funding rounds, a $200m acquisition, and guiding high-stakes legal functions. She was previously the General Counsel at Paddle, but is now the Founder of Lwyr, a legal, risk, and compliance advisory for fast-growth companies. Maryam was also recognized as a 2023 The Lawyer General Counsel of the Year finalist.

Laura Frederick is the Founder of How To Contract and the author of best-selling book on contracts: "Practical Tips on How to Contract". Laura has more than 25 years practicing law across the globe and has delivered over 100 hours of training to thousands of legal professionals in the process. She has also held legal roles where she has led commercial deals at Fortune 500 companies like Tesla, as well as owning her own boutique law firm for five years.

Tom Bangay is the Senior Director of Content & Community at Juro, bringing over 15 years of experience in legal content strategy and community building. With a BA in Law and European Law from the University of Nottingham and an MA in Human Values and Contemporary Global Ethics from King’s College London, Tom has built a career around supporting and engaging the legal sector. Since joining Juro in 2018, Tom has developed and led content initiatives that highlight the transformative power of Juro’s contract automation platform for legal teams, building a trusted community of over 1,000 lawyers from high-growth companies worldwide.

Tom’s background includes a wealth of editorial roles with a focus on legal content. He was Deputy Editor at Chambers & Partners, and then Managing Editor at the International Bar Association, where he covered global legal issues and trends in a range of publications and multimedia. He then initiated and managed Thomson Reuters Legal’s thought leadership programme, overseeing strategic content at the home of Westlaw and Practical Law.

Tom’s leadership in content and community at Juro is rooted in his deep understanding of the legal profession, which enables him to connect with in-house legal teams on issues that matter most.