Consultant Legal Counsel
Gill Austin
Gill is a solutions-focussed in-house lawyer who knows what growing businesses need to scale faster and more efficiently whilst helping manage risk. Her frontline experience working with busy and dynamic companies on their day-to-day legal matters makes her a highly valuable resource to senior management, sales and procurement teams. Having worked at a senior level within various scaling companies she’s also great at keeping an eye on the future – providing solutions and advice that are tailored to business plans and goals.
Gill is highly experienced in leading and guiding businesses on commercial risk decisions and is passionate about providing legal services that deliver an ROI – working to prioritise, plan and budget for their legal requirements. Gill’s also great at simplifying complex issues and finding practical solutions. She loves problem solving and getting to grips with fast-paced deals, making it as easy as possible to get them done quickly and effectively without over-lawyering them.
Useful to know:
Gill’s fluent in French, enjoys the mountains (and has been to Everest Base Camp) and has pygmy goats.
Worked with:
Gill works regularly with clients such as Insight222, Zenobe, The Modern House, Pyramid Analytics, Diona, Love Language and Wherescape. She has also worked with QVC. Before working with us she worked as in-house Legal Director at Microsoft as well as in well respected law firms Olswang and Bird & Bird.What Gill's clients say:
Gill's knowledge of our industry and our public sector client base has been invaluable in our customer and partner discussions.
Gill's background in software and her understanding of our business has allowed us to act fast across the sales team helping us to get our deals done more efficiently. Her support in helping with a change in license approach to 'subscription model' which has been adopted globally has been instrumental to the growth of our business.
