Leadership

Led personally. Supported by specialists.

The practice is led directly by its founder and draws on a trusted network of specialist associates and counsel, engaged matter by matter.

Leadership

Led personally. Supported by specialists.

The practice is led directly by its founder and draws on a trusted network of specialist associates and counsel, engaged matter by matter.

Shazia Mukhtar

Shazia Mukhtar

Principal & Founder

Strategic legal, governance and executive adviser. Lawyer (England & Wales) with 25+ years advising boards and leadership teams across the UK, MENA, Europe and APAC, on matters spanning over USD 20 billion of projects.

Edmond Sullivan

Edmond Sullivan

Global Energy Executive

M&A, Commercial, Legal & Project Leadership

Purpose & values

Three words that govern every mandate.

The practice exists to make senior legal judgement accessible to the people who carry the decision. How that judgement is delivered is set by three commitments.

I
Judgement

Advice grounded in decades of sitting where the decision lands — weighing commercial reality against legal exposure, with risk and ambition designed together rather than reconciled afterwards.

II
Integrity

Independent, candid counsel held to the standards of a UK lawyer. The same answer in the room as on the record — and the matter owned from first conversation to close.

III
Impact

Measured by outcomes — deals closed, disputes resolved, risk contained — and by a board decision that can be acted on, not by the length of the memo.

Why this practice exists

Having spent over two decades advising boards and executive teams inside large multinational organisations, I established this advisory practice to make that same level of strategic legal and governance expertise accessible to growing businesses — those that need experienced judgement without the cost of a full-time General Counsel.
Shazia MukhtarPrincipal & Founder