Caroline is a corporate governance specialist with cross-sector experience advising both listed and private companies.
Caroline is an experienced senior associate and has played an integral part in advising many of our key clients on high profile and strategic governance matters. Caroline has been named in leading legal directories for the past three years, most recently as a Leading Associate in the UK Legal 500 (2025). Clients say "Caroline has a rare blend of technical ability, commercial and practical judgement and people skills" and "she is one of the most impressive young lawyers I have ever worked with".
Caroline advises clients on the full spectrum of corporate governance issues, including: developments in public disclosures and corporate reporting, including in relation to annual reports and climate and sustainability reporting; annual general meetings and shareholder engagement strategies; directors' duties, liabilities and conflict issues and directors' indemnities; compliance with listed company continuing obligations, including the UK Market Abuse Regulation; and corporate governance considerations, including approaches to and compliance with the UK Corporate Governance Code.
Caroline offers commercial and pragmatic advice, having spent nearly three years on various client secondments, most recently leading the Company Secretariat team at The Weir Group PLC (FTSE 100). Caroline has also been seconded twice to the Legal and Company Secretariat team of Hammerson plc (including during its 2020 £550 million rights issue and disposal of VIA Outlets for €300 million) and to the Mergers & Acquisitions team at global insurance broker Willis Towers Watson.
Caroline regularly trains both public and private companies and their boards on new and forthcoming legal and regulatory developments as well as writing widely on corporate governance topics.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- a large number of listed companies (FTSE 100, FTSE 250, FTSE Small Cap and AIM) including Associated British Foods, British American Tobacco, Hiscox, Jet2, Severn Trent, The Unite Group, The Weir Group and WH Smith on a range of corporate governance issues including: corporate reporting; the UK Corporate Governance Code; annual general meetings; share capital management issues; listed company continuing obligations; intra-group reorganisations and entity rationalisation projects; and internal policies, procedures and processes associated with day-to-day company secretarial matters
- a range of UK and overseas companies (both public and private) on their climate- and sustainability-related reporting, including under the climate-related reporting regimes set out in the UK Listing Rules and UK Companies Act 2006
- Ramsay Health Care Limited, the ASX-listed healthcare provider, on a variety of corporate governance matters, general reporting and sustainability reporting matters and intra-group transactions in relation to its UK subsidiary companies
- Resolution Life on the UK Market Abuse Regulation governance, policies and procedures required in connection with its issuance of USD500 million fixed rate Tier 2 notes
- Kin and Carta plc, the global digital transformation agency, on its accreditation as the first ever certified B Corporation on the London Stock Exchange
- made.com on a range of corporate governance issues following its initial public offering in 2021 including in relation to corporate reporting requirements, its annual report and annual general meeting, director and board matters, remuneration and share plan issues, its court-sanction reduction of share capital, continuing obligations under the listing regime and day-to-day corporate governance issues
Background
Caroline has a First Class Honours in European Social and Political Studies from University College London, having studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) as part of her degree. She speaks French, Spanish, German and Welsh.
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