Christopher Stephen Johnson
Head of Corporate and Commercial
During my 18-year career I have worked at all levels of management within the legal and asset management sector, with the last 8 years at Head of Operations or Director level for a leading national consumer law firm and a large asset management company.
I became a Partner in my early 30’s and since then have focussed predominantly on corporate clients and the practicalities of running large scale operations within the heavily regulated legal sector. This has included working with private equity investors to build out a grow a law firm I was a part of, whilst also assisting clients build and develop their business interests, not only within the UK but also North America, North West Africa and the UAE.
Due to the diverse nature of roles I have held across my career, I have extensive experience to help clients across a wide range of areas both within the legal sector and operational management, these include:
- Development of corporate structures and governance frameworks.
- Merges and Acquisitions of both start up and established business, in both the professional services sector and mining and geological arena.
- Implementation of operational management systems to ensure that employees deliverables and KPI’s align with the business objectives.
- Construction and management of financial models and budgets, at both department and business levels to ensure financial oversight.
- Development of presentations and business models to obtain and market for new / increased levels of investment.
- Re-financing and capital injections through both private equity and litigation funding providers.
- Portfolio management of projects within the organisation spreading across all areas from marketing through to construction/ delivery.
- Engagement and management of external resources such as legal counsel and government regulators
- Rationalisation and re-organisation of distressed business and business units to enable turn around plans to be implemented.
My primary objective is always to advise the client holistically on the problems they face, pulling on my experiences to find practical solutions for not only the issue they face today, but also looking to anticipate future complications so that your interests are fully protected.
Outside of work I have three young children who keep me fully occupied as a taxi, however I love nothing more than going the gym or having a beer with friends and analysing Liverpool’s latest’s performance!