Jeremy is an experienced Corporate lawyer, General Counsel and English qualified Solicitor with over 25 years’ experience and a proven track record in senior legal roles with MNCs and SMEs in the UK and around the world. Jeremy is commercially orientated and dedicated to enabling business; specialising in: M&A, cross jurisdictional transactions, TMT and IT outsourcing, and asset backed finance.
 
Jeremy’s core skill is to enable business growth. Jeremy does this by providing pragmatic input into growth and investment strategy; using his extensive experience and commercial acumen to efficiently and pragmatically negotiate agreements of all sizes, especially in the IT, Telco, green energy, recruitment and hospitality sectors; and by supporting business transformation, especially from Capex to SaaS, by providing the terms of business and corporate structure which enables transformation.

Jeremy was responsible for Logica’s legal affairs for almost 10 years until in 2009, he joined leading port operator, Gulftainer in the UAE, as General Counsel and helped that company double in turnover in just over two years through acquisitions in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Brazil and Russia.

On returning to the UK in 2015, Jeremy consulted to some of the UK’s leading technology companies, including Vodafone and BT. In 2016, Jeremy became General Counsel to US owned, market leading hospitality technology provider, Guestline Limited.

In 2019, Jeremy co-founded, the specialist legal consultancy, Espley Consulting and Negotiation Limited (EC&N). EC&N specialises in helping U.K headquartered MNCs to invest overseas; and from 2023, Jeremy worked with boutique legal consultancy, Seven Legal.

In 2024, Jeremy joined Kingsley Wood, bringing with him his wealth of experience in M&A, international investment, cross-border transactions, asset-backed finance, TMT and IT outsourcing.