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Clik here to view.Paving the way at exhibitions giant ITE Group, Andrew Watkins is the company’s first general counsel and first-ever in-house lawyer.
Over his career, Watkins has built no fewer than three legal teams from scratch.
At ITE, he was tasked with building a ‘small but powerfully punching’ legal team that can respond to the needs of a large, international and publicly listed company.
Since starting in the summer of 2017, he has grown the legal team to four interim lawyers in the UK and has hired a head of legal in Russia. He also has plans to hire in China and India in the near future.
As well as building a legal team, Watkins has overseen stand-out M&A transactions, including the £300m acquisition of Ascential Events and supporting rights issue. He has looked after one other acquisition, together with two disposals in Asia, and the related party disposal of ITE’s non-core Russian business.
He will be spending the coming months assessing the company’s Asian governance arrangements, as well as developing the company-wide transformation and growth programme.
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