Arbor Law

Mary is a commercial lawyer with over 13 years' experience advising multinational businesses across a wide range of matters in the UK and globally.

With a particular focus on commercial and contractual, product counselling and compliance work, Mary also has extensive experience within e-commerce, as well as social media, FMCG and global sports marketing.

Having worked in-house since 2009 for some of the world’s largest brands, Mary's experience includes supporting with day-to-day queries, as well as advising on long-term strategic projects across a number of areas, such as procurement, product development, marketing, regulatory and compliance.

Mary drafts, reviews and negotiates a broad range of commercial contracts, including services, sponsorship, advertising, outsourcing, data licensing, technology and supplier agreements.

Mary loves building strong relationships with her clients, ensuring she understands the business context and her client’s needs in order to provide cost-effective and timely advice, helping clients navigate legal ambiguity and taking a pragmatic, risk-based approach to deliver on outcomes.

Mary started her career at CMS Cameron McKenna where she was seconded to the London and Madrid offices of Diageo. She then worked in-house at adidas as Legal Counsel, Global Sports Marketing Legal & Commercial Affairs (Amsterdam); at eBay in various roles including Senior Commercial & Product Counsel at eBay Europe, Head of Legal at eBay Spain, Americas Senior Commercial & Product Counsel (San Jose, California) and Legal Counsel, UK & Spain; Senior Legal Counsel at TikTok (London) and a Legal Consultant at Meta (London).

Outside of her professional life, Mary's main passions are yoga and travel. She loves nothing more than combining the two and taking her yoga mat on every foreign adventure.