Know-how: The synthesis of experience and intellect

It’s not enough for a lawyer to have had just the occasional experience of a particular type of transaction. Your lawyer should be able to advise on alternative approaches and, if necessary, make up for your inexperience.

For the last 12 years Matthew Duggan has been advising businesses and financial institutions on corporate and commercial law and negotiating deals in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia.

His experience has been gained with a leading London firm of solicitors and also as a founder executive and in-house lawyer of a start-up IT outsourcing company, where he was responsible for negotiating and managing corporate and commercial deals in Australia, the USA and the Far East.

As well as having many years’ experience giving legal advice, as an in-house lawyer he was a buyer of legal services, so he has very direct experience of the difficulties in getting effective and value-for-money legal advice.

But all the experience in the world is useless if one doesn’t have the wit to analyse, interpret and use it.

As well as having an impressive academic record, throughout his career Matthew has had a reputation as a lawyer who uses his intellect and analytical skills to understand complex issues, to find novel solutions and to anticipate different outcomes.