Senior Contracts Manager at Talogy Limited (2023-12 – Present)
Legal lead and primary point of contacts for all international customer and supplier contracts (Europe, APAC, Middle East) and other legal matters (value of over 20 millions USD a year).
- Review over 60 RFPs per year from a legal side
- Review of all third party agreements for Talogy International including but not limited to: Saas contracts, Data Privacy Agreement, NDAs, Services Agreements (over 100 contracts per year)
- Experienced in reviewing and maintaining company terms and conditions and policy documentation
- Draft tailored legal documents to meet evolving business needs
- Act as a de facto privacy analyst—supporting privacy-related initiatives and compliance efforts, despite not holding a formal qualification
- Conduct privacy policy reviews and ensure alignment with GDPR and international privacy regulations
- Preparing Transfer impact assessment and other privacy documents when needed
- Managing contractors or legal administrators
Contracts Manager at Talogy Limited (2020-03 – 2023-12)
- Review, draft and negotiate company's commercial agreements (including Saas, services agreements, data processing agreements, vendor agreements, etc)
- Liaise closely with compliance and IT team on responding to any queries from clients
- Liaise with external advisers on finalising and negotiating non-UK international commercial agreements
- Work with the key business stakeholders on finalising commercial agreements
- Assist head of legal with reviewing and drafting documents and communications, and liaising with various internal teams such as product management, marketing, HR, compliance, etc.
- Assist head of legal with drafting and maintaining agreement templates and updating policies and templates in line with changes in legislation
- Respond to legal requests from sales teams, summarizing and communicating legal issues and risks in line with approval processes, company policies and procedures
- Review and advise on third party agreements for bid proposals
- Manage electronic signatures process for the international business through Docusign
- Maintain ongoing international contracts list to be shared with the business heads
Group Legal Manager at Octopus Publishing Group Limited (2017-03 – 2020-03)
Octopus Publishing is an imprint of Hachette UK, one of the leading book publishers in the UK.
- Advising publishing directors as required on contractual element of offers based on the Company precedents and practices
- Drafting author agreements based on the information received, and associated contractual paperwork such as addendas, novations, reversions, cancellation letters
- Checking incoming contracts from the other party against deal memos, reviewing the legal terms and bring them in line with the Company policies
- Reviewing and drafting marketing contracts, procurement agreements, and any other agreements
- Managing potential acquisitions to consider legal issues and helping the editorial team to address them (checking against potential copyright issues, trademark problems, and any unlawful elements)
- Dealing with day to day legal queries
- First point of contact for incoming legal complaints, and assisting the Group Legal Director with handling or dealing with them
- Trademark management
- Liaising with the Hachette legal director to update the company on any new legal requirements
- Training any new member of staff on copyright, trademarks and libel
Group Legal and Corporate Affairs Manager at Eaglemoss Publishing Group Limited (2015-01 – 2017-03)
Eaglemoss is the leading partwork company in the UK and offers a wide portfolio of publishing products and services.
- Drafting and reviewing the legal and commercial terms of any licensing agreements and ensuring that the Group complies with the terms agreed (Working with companies such as Disney, Warner, HBO)
- Negotiating new rights with licensors once the main terms have been agreed
- Liaising with licensors for update on our publishing program, main advisor on various queries
- Drafting sublicensing agreement in accordance with the licensing terms agreed
- Drafting and reviewing various joint venture agreements in various territories
- Respond to any internal and external queries regarding any agreed deals
- Drafting and reviewing any contracts needed for the Group (such as intercompany contracts, distribution agreements, service agreements, and supplier agreements)
- Drafting and updating terms and conditions for our publications and also for our e-commerce websites
- Keeping up to date with the current legislation
- Replying to any internal legal queries and supplying any legal advice
- Royalty Audit: Liaising with the licensors and our finance team to respond to any requests
- Liaising with our finance team to report royalties accordingly
- Dealing with internal and external requests related to the Corporate: Drafting board minutes, requesting Certificate of Goodstanding, managing Articles of Association of the various companies
- Managing liquidation of companies within the group
- Organisation of notarization of any documents
- Liaising with external lawyers, in any territories, for pending lawsuits, and managing budget
- Managing all aspects of Trademark registration
Contracts Manager at Eaglemoss Publishing Group Limited (2011-03 – 2015-01)
Manage and improve contractual and licensing practices, focusing on international exposure including supporting all phases of discussion with Licensors from a contractual point of view, drafting of sub-licensing agreements with local counsel. Manage and assist any legal activities within the group including handling different group requests with Company Houses (including Change of Name, Change of Directors).
- Advising publishing directors as required on contractual element of offers based on the Company precedents and practices
- Drafting author agreements based on the information received, and associated contractual paperwork such as addendas, novations, reversions, cancellation letters
- Checking incoming contracts from the other party against deal memos, reviewing the legal terms and bring them in line with the Company policies
- Reviewing and drafting marketing contracts, procurement agreements, and any other agreements
- Managing potential acquisitions to consider legal issues and helping the editorial team to address them (checking against potential copyright issues, trademark problems, and any unlawful elements)
- Dealing with day to day legal queries
- First point of contact for incoming legal complaints, and assisting the Group Legal Director with handling or dealing with them
- Trademark management
- Liaising with the Hachette legal director to update the company on any new legal requirements
- Training any new member of staff on copyright, trademarks and libel
- Managing Title search and Trademark registrations
Foreign Rights Assistant at Quarto Publishing plc (2008-08 – 2011-03)
Quarto is the originator and creator of illustrated books and art prints for customers around the world. It produces illustrated books with a well-deserved reputation for style and quality in the fields of art, crafts, gardening, lifestyle, and reference. The Foreign Sales department worked with 7 different catalogues, with over 200 titles a year.
- Selling books and new presentations, sending the follow-up with prices and schedule for the different coedition, following-up with them
- Helping our Australian and Japanese offices by coordinating with our London based office
Rights and Licensing Assistant at GLENAT Publishing Group (2006-07 – 2008-03)
Glénat Publishing Company is a leading French publishing company which publishes comic books and high quality illustrated books specialising in outdoor, maritime, cookery, etc.
- Participation in drafting commercial agreements for press publication contracts, rights contracts with foreign publishing companies (White Star, Priuli & Verlucca, Menasha Ridge, Editorial Juventud, etc) and reproduction rights
- Drafting licensing contracts
- Ensuring compliance with license agreement terms
