Procurement of legal services: How to best manage your internal legal stakeholders & outside legal services providers

The Event will be divided into two sections (panel + networking). We will be starting the event with a panel discussion on the following topic: How to best manage your internal legal stakeholders and outside legal services providers?

Aims: How to best manage your legal colleagues and law firms

A good understanding of the legal services market and mindsets of its various stakeholders is what you need to know to be a trusted business partner. From your legal department and legal operations colleagues to partners in law firms and their business development team, every stakeholder has its own mindset, bias and ways of working. 

The Panel will take you through practical insights and recipes to shine in the procurement of legal services.

In this interactive session, you will learn:

● How the legal market ticks

● How your legal colleagues think and what they expect from you

● What law firms and their business development teams care for and aim to achieve

● Key characteristics and strategies of successful RFP processes

The session will provide for war stories, practical insights, and interactive discussions with participants.

This event is open to members and non-members 

If you have any queries please contact branchevents@cips.org

EVENT VENUE:

Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, 2 London Wall Place, London, EC2Y 5AU

Light refreshments will be available 

EVENT SPEAKER

Mike Preston 

Partner at Cleary Gottlieb, an elite global law firm, advises a broad range of private equity sponsors, investors, and other corporate clients on their investments and co-investments, joint ventures, and other commercial transactions. He has experience across a range of business sectors, with particular experience in health care, technology, financial services, and natural resources, and he has worked extensively in the emerging markets. Michael also has significant experience advising clients on issues related to investment funds, acquisition finance, and alternative investment structures.

Michael joined the firm in 2005 and became a partner in 2011. From 2005 to 2010, he was resident in the London office. From 2011 to 2015, he was resident in the Hong Kong office. Previously, he was an associate at Allen & Overy LLP in London and at Russell McVeagh in Wellington, New Zealand.

Group General Counsel at Element in December 2022 and is responsible for leading the Legal, Insurance, Governance and Compliance Teams. She has over 25 years of experience working in PLC and private equity environments across a range of different global business sectors.

Trudy was most recently Group General Counsel and Company Secretary at Avast PLC, a FTSE-100 global cyber security company, where she was part of the team that completed the successful take private of the company, working closely with the Board. She sat on the Executive Team and led the teams across Governance, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Risk and Internal Audit. Prior to Avast, she was Group General Counsel at Inmarsat PLC where she led the Strategy, M&A, Legal, Government Affairs and Regulatory teams and was also part of the team that took the company private.

Before Inmarsat, she spent over 14 years at the global private equity firm, Terra Firma Capital Partners, latterly as a director of the FCA regulated investment company and their Chief Operating Officer. 

Jonathan Selvadoray has 25+ years of experience in the legal industry both as buyer and seller of legal services.

Founder of Zaven (zavenlegal.com), the first legal services procurement marketplace for large corporates and high-end law firms.

 He has also been with Temasek (temasek.com.sg) for more than a decade as GC EMEA and was during the previous decade the managing partner of CMS Cameron McKenna Shanghai office.

Jonathan is a corporate lawyer and has advised on hundreds of transactions across the capital structure from early stage to growth, public, private, credit, fund investments and co-invest. He has also enjoyed for the longest time legal tech and digitalisation.

Jonathan was born and raised in Switzerland (Dutch/Indian parents) and worked and lived in various other countries such as Germany, France, Costa Rica and the US.