Mike is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in legal transformation and managed services. Motivated by challenges, he enjoys creating innovative solutions that solve complex problems in a people-centric and technology-enabled way. Mike has a proven track record in building successful businesses, executing complex technical processes, and leading cultural change programmes.
He empowers teams to achieve outstanding outcomes for clients, demonstrating energy and enthusiasm to make a meaningful impact in the legal industry.
Mike’s expertise spans across sectors, professional services, and consulting roles. He has established strong capabilities in his roles, building and investing in people by sharing knowledge and insight to create an inclusive working environment. His approach is fundamentally linked to authenticity, integrity, and fairness, which he believes are key to interacting and dealing with people and business issues.
Mike's experience includes multiple sector-based engagements across Financial Services, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Energy & Infrastructure, Technology, Manufacturing, Telco, Government, and Pharma, where he supported large global clients in creating value within Legal functions, achieving a combined £250 million in cost reduction. Developed and delivered an industry benchmarking initiative for Banks that uniquely “shaped and sized” banking peers to create a composite peer, used to highlight areas of opportunity and focus. This included substantial quantitative analysis to size peers and, importantly, in-depth qualitative interactions to shape peers.
The outcome was advice to each participant tailored to the organisational context, with tangible actionable initiatives that addressed underlying operational issues, each achieving a 15-30% reduction in costs to support their businesses. Led and advised the legal function for a multinational universal bank, identifying and deploying solutions to increase efficiency