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Consultant Legal Counsel & Legal Designer

Angela Tang

Email:

angelatang@legaledge.co.uk

Phone:

+44 (0)7809 679652

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Angela is a City-trained lawyer with a range of in-house experience, from working with listed and large corporates to SMEs. Angela is passionate about ensuring that usability is at the heart of all legal operations. She strongly believes that legal should fit within the existing structure, practices and processes of a business, not the other way around.

Angela looks at legal issues and identifies business risks co-designing solutions with clients to mitigate them. She understands the importance of making legal outputs strategic, relevant and accessible to all teams in rapidly scaling businesses, to ensure risk is managed efficiently and the underlying business objectives are reached. She is also great at day-to-day legal support from creating policies, processes and legal templates to contract management, playbooks and toolkits.

Useful to know:

Angela is a certified UX and graphic designer and PRINCE2 project manager. In her spare time, she enjoys facilitating and participating in sprints with social enterprises, designers and developers for social good projects.

Worked with:

Angela has worked as a lawyer at Travers Smith and an Innovation Consultant at a Magic Circle firm. She has also worked as an in-house Legal Consultant and Legal Design Consultant for Coursera, Pi-Top, Mind over Tech, Citizens Advice Bureau and SSP Group – The Food Travel Experts.

What Angela's clients say:

Angela has been a great asset to our in-house team providing much needed overflow support on a high volume of deals at quarter and year ends. She always responds quickly, happily acting as the ‘first line of defence’ for our legal team and has directly supported our sales team to get their deals done. Her contract management and legal ops experience enabled her to get up to speed quickly with our business and her input to help improve our contract management processes and legal triaging was invaluable.

LegalEdge has provided unparalleled legal support to our EMEA business as our in-house lawyers to help us negotiate our software license contracts successfully and quickly.
VP & GM EMEA - Wherescape
LegalEdge has provided excellent, commercially focused advice as part of our in-house legal team that has helped us close contracts with our customers and partners.
CEO - Diona
LegalEdge understood our needs more than any traditional law firm had before: we were able to dip in and dip out of their services, they acted like a general counsel for us.
Co-Founder - Young Foodies
The fact that all their lawyers have worked inside businesses means they are commercial, pragmatic and know exactly how to prioritise what’s important.
COO - Squirro
Having made the decision to outsource our legal work, we have been extremely impressed by how quickly LegalEdge have quickly understood our business.
Commercial Director - The Social Element
We’re very pleased with the work LegalEdge are doing for us. We’re getting quick and decisive responses that are really helping us move forward.
FINANCE & OPERATIONS DIRECTOR - DEPOP
LegalEdge have been fantastic advisers to our business. Between shareholder agreements & fundraise, Trademark & IP, and commercial agreements, we deeply value their guidance.
Co-Founder - Days Brewing
The ideal solution for the busy in-house counsel who is unable to add a permanent head as you have the ability to flex support without the need to rely on expensive law firms.
Vice President and EMEA Managing Counsel - World-Check [now Thomson Reuters]
I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend LegalEdge as the ideal option to any business needing in-house legal support
Assistant General Counsel - Living Social
LegalEdge has consistently provided us with a no-nonsense commercial approach to our legal requirements, offering a high level of expertise.
Director - Xepta Group
The support we have received has been first class – from day one. LegalEdge have gone above and beyond to truly understand our business.
Director EMEA Operations - Stella & Dot
LegalEdge are the go-to lawyers for these types of activities, Helen and the team fully understand the space and also start-ups and their specific needs.
COO - Booxscale
LegalEdge’s experience has proven invaluable as they have picked up, negotiated and completed contracts with commercial aptitude.
Group Counsel - Funding Circle
Donna and her team have always provided an excellent and responsive service.
Founder - OnTaap.com
LegalEdge are awesome at taking complex ideas and turning them into simple contracts whilst streamlining processes to make it easy to do business.
Founder - Lola Tech
What sets LegalEdge apart is that they focus on problem solving and keeping issues in perspective. They know and understand our business and the array of legal issues we face.
Partner - Portal Tech Reply
As our trusted go to lawyers for complex contract queries and negotiations, LegalEdge know how to focus on the things that matter and to get deals done.
Commercial Director - Connect Managed
LegalEdge challenge us when needed and clearly articulate our risks so that we can make well informed commercial decisions.
Managing Director, International - Revolution Analytics
The Oxial team was very impressed with the quality of the contracts that the LegalEdge team produced for our business and with their responsive and collaborative approach.
COO - Hammer Team & Oxial
Working with LegalEdge has been a breath of fresh air! They have provided a unique, entrepreneurial approach to legal services within a rapidly growing organisation.
COO and Co-Founder - hybris GmbH (now a SAP company)