Jeremy trained at Slaughter and May, qualifying into the Intellectual property group in 1991, and worked in-house as Assistant General Counsel with Sun Microsystems (now part of Oracle Corporation) over the peak of the dotcom boom in 1999-2001. He has been a Director of Codified since 2005, and is rated as a Leading Individual in the field of IT and Telecoms law by Legal 500. Jeremy writes and lectures extensively on IT law and contracts, and he has recently co-edited the third edition of the British Computer Society publication A Practical Guide to IT Law.

MOBILE: +44 (0) 7749 631620
DIRECT: 0845 351 9094
EMAIL: Jeremy.Newton@Codified.Legal

Stephen trained and qualified with Osborne Clarke (1995-98), and subsequently worked with Wragge & Co in Birmingham (1998-2002) when he left to co-found Codified. In the earlier part of his career he spent time seconded to in-house legal teams, developing a clear understanding of what clients want. He has been involved in technology transactions in almost every industry sector, including financial services, high value manufacturing, health, and retail. He is recognised as one of only two “Hall of Fame” lawyers in this practice area in the West Midlands.

MOBILE: +44 (0) 7747 045080
DIRECT: 0845 351 9092
EMAIL: Stephen.Ollerenshaw@Codified.Legal

Gavin has been a Director of the firm since 2003, having previously worked at the bar and in-house, with Dun & Bradstreet as Sole Counsel, and Capgemini as General Counsel for Asia and subsequently General Counsel for Capgemini UK. Gavin has extensive experience of high-value IT and outsourcing projects, working across all sectors but with a recent focus on banking and finance and central government on the sell-side, and construction and automotive on the buy-side. Gavin also supports our smaller innovation clients, giving practical, pragmatic and cost-effective advice in launching and building their businesses.

MOBILE:+44 (0) 7795 084822
DIRECT: 0845 351 9093
EMAIL: Gavin.Wakefield@Codified.Legal

Shazanna is an experienced Intellectual Property lawyer with extensive in house commercial experience.  Her experience leading the Legal team globally at FTSE (financial services) and more recently IRIS (software) has deepened her pragmatic approach working with all teams across the business.  With experience in M&A, joint ventures, employment law, data protection, competition law, intellectual property, outsourcing and a broad range of commercial contracts she can be trusted to provide legally sound, sensible solutions.   

MOBILE: +44 (0) 7881 026297
EMAIL: Shazanna.Safdar-Karim@Codified.Legal

Caroline has specialized in employment law since qualifying in 2002, working in leading firms (including as partner and head of employment teams) and in a variety of consultancy roles. Caroline’s extensive experience includes advising on employment contracts and policies, disputes, grievance and disciplinary matters, discrimination, settlement agreements, TUPE/outsourcing,restructuring, redundancy, confidentiality and restrictive covenants.  Caroline conducts investigations on behalf of clients, and as an independent investigator.  She also advises public sector and regulated professionals regarding their statutory/regulatory duties. She is a regular speaker at industry conferences and seminars, and provides employment law training tailored to meet client needs.

MOBILE: +44 (0) 7908 908022
EMAIL: Caroline.Lee@Codified.Legal

After training as a barrister, Claire worked as an employment specialist at law firms DAC Beachcroft and Linklaters before joining us in 2017. Claire advises both employers and employees on the full range of advisory, contentious and transactional matters, and has particular expertise in the area of workplace disputes (e.g. discrimination, whistleblowing and disciplinary matters). She also works as a Trustee and on a voluntary basis for a number of charities, advising Board members and providing pro bono employment advice

MOBILE: +44 (0) 7841 098182
EMAIL: Claire.Gilbert@Codified.Legal

A specialist corporate lawyer, Barry’s remit is to work with individuals and companies to provide a full advisory and practical support service on all areas of corporate law for private sector businesses.  He provides a comprehensive range of legal services, with a particular focus on corporate transactional work, including mergers and acquisitions together with trade sales and disposals. In addition, Barry also handles company formations, undertakes re-structuring work and advises on joint ventures as well as shareholders agreements etc. He also works closely with companies offering advice on general company law compliance as well as providing pragmatic commercial input, working as part of the team.

MOBILE: +44 (0) 7980 614076
EMAIL: Barry.Doherty@Codified.Legal

Mark has been working in the IT services industry since the early days of outsourcing. He has provided legal and business support across the panoply of services, including mega-outsourcing deals, hardware, software, development, engineering, R&D, and cloud services. Until now, he has worked in-house for major IT services companies from around the globe. He was based in Silicon Valley in the USA for the past 15 years, recently returning to the UK. Mark is also keenly interested in models for more efficient legal services delivery. He supports Liverpool soccer (football!) team and also enjoys biking.

MOBILE: +44 (0) 7707 788007
EMAIL: Mark.Curtis@Codified.Legal

Manoj is an experienced and dynamic leader with over 25 years of experiences in the technology and services industries (On-Premise and SaaS licensing, AI, Machine Learning, (Predictive) Analytics, Outsourcing/Managed Services, Telecoms, Defence and Aerospace). He has successfully driven and enabled strategic change, creating and growing motivated group functions and teams and ensuring stability and results oriented enthusiasm.

MOBILE: +44 (0) 7971 252267
EMAIL: Manoj.Paul@Codified.Legal

Conan is an experienced commercial and technology lawyer. Conan was head of group at two well-known London firms and has been a consultant counsel to law firms and in-house legal departments for the last 12 years. He has acted on both the supply and procurement side of technology transactions and supported a wide range of businesses from the global operations of one of the big four accountants through to specialist MSPs.

MOBILE: +44 (0) 7775 833884
EMAIL: Conan.Chitham@Codified.Legal

Gautam’s practice covers a range of technology and commercial issues. He is skilled in advising, negotiating and drafting complex commercial contracts and product T&Cs, predominantly focussing on services and IP. He also advises on data protection, e/m-commerce and outsourcing matters. He has served two long-term secondments at a global fin-tech acting as an extension of their EMEA in-house legal team and managing legal projects.

MOBILE: +44 (0) 7492 400067
EMAIL: Gautam.Chhokar@Codified.Legal