Kerry Phillip

Lawyer

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Kerry works with businesses and legal teams at three distinct moments:

  • when a legal team needs to work smarter, using data, AI, legal technology and better processes to deliver more with the same resource;
  • when a GC needs a peer to share the load and extend their strategic reach; and
  • when a growing business needs experienced GC-level legal support without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire

Kerry is an award-winning, commercially focused General Counsel, Company Secretary and legal leader with more than 30 years of experience across regulated multinationals, high growth businesses and a top London law firm, working in UK and France.

Until March 2023, Kerry was General Counsel for Vodafone Business, reporting to the CEO as a member of the executive leadership team. She led a global team responsible for legal, regulatory, risk and compliance, governance and company secretarial matters across Europe, USA, Africa and Asia, and was a director of key subsidiary companies and chair of the risk and compliance committee.

Since then, Kerry has delivered legal transformation programmes for National Grid, Kantar Group and GMS, and provides ongoing fractional support to businesses and legal teams across a range of sectors.

Kerry’s areas of expertise include:

  • AI Governance
  • AI Implementation
  • Commercial Law
  • Company Secretarial Work
  • Compliance
  • Contracts
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Law
  • Disposals
  • Instructing & Managing External Counsel
  • Joint Ventures
  • Legal Operations
  • Legal Team Optimisation
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • NDAs & Confidentiality Agreements
  • Outsourcing
  • Procurement
  • Risk Management