Team size: Circa 25 lawyers

Focus on: Company’s progression through new challenges

Working for a private, family-owned conglomerate, trusted adviser is an accurate description of my role, requiring discretion, humility and mutually respectful personal relationships, whilst maintaining technical excellence and sound business judgment.

Alshaya is a multi-brand, with over 60 retail brands, including Starbucks, Shake Shack, Victoria’s Secret, Harvey Nichols and Boots. As an international franchise operator across 18 markets, in addition to doing business in accommodation, estate developments and automobiles, we are a diverse, multicultural and inclusive team, championing a transparent and collaborative way of working and put great effort in adopting best practices and skills, as well as raising awareness across wider issues like ESG and cybersecurity.

We are revisiting and revising policies and implementing lessons on e-commerce, data protection regulations, anti-corruption and bribery. We remain independent to the business, yet we aim to be a critical and go-to business partner. We are all generalists to a degree, however we each have specialisms and we share our learning through monthly meetings. We have a flexible working policy of 2 days a week from home, as of entitlement discretionary as to the rest, but we firmly believe and uphold that nothing can beat face to face interaction and the personal touch for understanding and nuancing situations and building trust, as one cannot progress with credibility without being visible.