Senior Legal Consultant

Jane originally qualified as a barrister before re-qualifying as a solicitor, working in the City of London for Slaughter and May, and ultimately working as a legal consultant for over three decades.

Jane specialises in commercial contracts, media and entertainment, IP, data protection, privacy and AI; advising businesses large and small on legal and business affairs matters, including “business as usual contracts” and those relating to the digital economy and IT and on the creation and exploitation of intellectual property of all descriptions and on advertising, marketing, sponsorship, events and social media.

Jane worked in-house for Sony Music UK and for Reach plc (publisher of “The Mirror” and many other titles) and has worked as a consultant for news publishers and producers, including ITN and the publishers of various national news titles, such as “The Telegraph”, and “The Independent” and production companies on commissions from ITV, the BBC, Channel 5, Netflix, Disney+ and AppleTV.

She has also worked with podcast producers, record companies, music publishers, book publishers, artists, composers, computer games designers, cloud service and e-commerce providers.

Winner of the European Woman of Legal Tech Award.