Dagmar has over twenty years’ professional experience split between law, investment banking and business.
After practising as a corporate lawyer at Clifford Chance and Skadden Arps, she pursued an MBA and worked in investment banking before running a fashion start-up backed by a UK hedge fund manager. Latterly, Dagmar has acted as General Counsel to a UK fintech lender and was part of its Executive Management. Other in-house experience includes a two year secondment to the in-house legal and M&A departments of AIRBUS in France.
Dagmar’s practice is centred on M&A and corporate finance transactions (both public and private), JVs, private equity and assistance to portfolio companies and delivering commercially focussed advice to owner-led businesses. She has particular experience in fintech and financial services as well as TMT but has extensive sector-agnostic experience of cross-border deals across the EMEA region.
W Legal Limited is not a partnership and the term “partner” applied to a person does not denote that such person is in partnership with W Legal Limited or with any other partner, consultant, director, officer, employee or agent of W Legal Limited. The term is used to describe a person’s seniority and experience.
Lisa has particular expertise in bribery and corruption, money laundering, fraud, tax evasion and market abuse matters and has acted for clients in some of the most high-profile cases brought by the SFO, FCA, CPS and other UK and international prosecution authorities. Many of those cases involved complex cross boarder issues such as requests made pursuant to mutual legal assistance treaties, double jeopardy, human rights, and extradition. Lisa has also successfully challenged decisions made by different prosecuting authorities in judicial review proceedings and under the victims right to review scheme.
In addition, Lisa has considerable experience acting for clients in civil fraud and director misfeasance cases, civil tax matters brought by HMRC, as well as personal and company insolvency matters.
Lisa is well known and respected in the industry as someone who can provide pragmatic and results oriented advice.
W Legal Limited is not a partnership and the term “partner” applied to a person does not denote that such person is in partnership with W Legal Limited or with any other partner, consultant, director, officer, employee or agent of W Legal Limited. The term is used to describe a person’s seniority and experience.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
PARTNER
OFFICE MANAGER