Emma Shakespeare
Senior Associate Solicitor
Emma heads up Travlaw’s very well regarded Commercial & Corporate Governance Department and brings considerable experience and expertise to the team, and to the travel industry.
Having qualified as a Solicitor in 2000, working in a travel & leisure law capacity, Emma has since spent her career in commercial, corporate and finance law roles in London and more recently, as in-house Counsel for Communisis Plc and Deputy Group Company Secretary for the Hexadex Group (both global corporates), based in Yorkshire.
Emma takes time to really understand her clients’ drivers, motivations and risks and delivers pragmatic commercial advice and legal solutions. Emma advises international corporate groups, entrepreneurs, industry bodies, owner managed and family owned small businesses on all areas from start up, trading and operations to exit strategy. This includes advice and negotiations on/of technology platform terms and agreements, supplier contracts, supply chain management as well as standard terms, international corporate compliance and governance, intra-group arrangements and advising on the Package Travel Regulations, ATOL Regulations, GDPR, PSD2 and wider consumer legislation.