In-house interview: : Sarah Binder, PlusNet

• Autores: Becky Waller-Davies
• Localización: The Lawyer, ISSN-e 0953-7902, Vol. 30, Nº. 26 (7/13/2015), 2015
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • With a grounding in both telecoms and M&A, Sarah Binder is well placed to face the challenges that come with being director of legal and compliance at entrepreneurial and fast-growing PlusNet.

    "When in-house teams get it right they are a conduit between other departments," asserts PlusNet head lawyer Sarah Binder. "They sit at the centre of the business and feed and support all the different parts." Binder, a Clifford Chance alumni, arrived at PlusNet from parent company BT, at which she was M&A counsel. After engineering BT's acquisition of ESPN in the UK in order to launch BT Sport, she made the move to the fast-growing provider in 2013, setting up the legal function from scratch