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Cognia announces Jennifer Yazdanpanahi as Global Delivery Director

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Cognia announces Jennifer Yazdanpanahi as Global Delivery Director

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Jennifer Yazdanpanahi is appointed by cognia as their new global delivery director as clients struggle with uncertainty in response to either specific events like the conflict in Ukraine or changes in the economic environment. She has a broad skill set that she has established over the last 20 years leading engagements for significant global businesses like State Street Global Advisors, Barclays Global Investors, KPMG, and Maitland.

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As clients are dealing with uncertainty either in response to specific events such as the war in Ukraine or developments in the economic environment, Cognia has seen increased demand for their managed legal teams to handle more complex projects and business as usual activity.

In the new role of Global Delivery Director, Jennifer will effectively manage the work we provide to our clients at a consistently high standard. She brings an extensive skill set developed over the last 20 years managing engagements for large international corporations including State Street Global Advisors, Barclays Global Investors, KPMG, and Maitland.

Jennifer has deep experience of efficiently delivering multifaceted projects for multinational clients at professional and financial services companies. One of her stand-out successes was when she built and led a strategic business in London for State Street Global Advisors, one of the world's largest asset managers.

Janet Taylor-Hall, CEO at Cognia said, "Our global delivery team plays a pivotal role in freeing up our clients' time so they can focus on strategic priorities of their business. We are delighted that Jennifer has joined as our new Global Delivery Director as she brings invaluable experience of managing engagements related to a wide range of challenges."

Jennifer Yazdanpanahi, Global Delivery Director commented, "The opportunity to bring my global delivery experience to Cognia's clients stood out for me. Cognia's diverse skills, from senior experienced lawyers to paralegals, business and legal operations professionals, project managers, technologists and data analysts, ideally positions us to partner with and service a wide range of financial services institutions, law firms and corporates. I look forward to leading these teams to achieve results that both Cognia and our clients are proud of."

This latest appointment also realises Cognia's strategic goal to achieve 50% representation of women on its senior leadership team, following Kathryn Williams joining in the summer as Head of Business Advisory. Investing in women is an integral part of Cognia's commitment to building diverse teams that thrive and give clients access to the best talent. To achieve this objective, Cognia continues to focus on embedding diversity and inclusion across all levels of the organisation.

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Cognia announces Jennifer Yazdanpanahi as Global Delivery Director - Cognia

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Cognia has appointed Kathryn Williams as the new head of their business advisory team. Kathryn brings over 25 years' experience delivering complex programmes and making transformational change at a wide range of organisations including the BBC, Tesco, Unilever and Yorkshire Building Society.

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Turning strategic intent into operational reality

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Turning strategic intent into operational reality

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The component parts have always existed with someone in the legal team picking up work related to the operations of the function.  These activities typically include supporting the development and roll out of the function’s strategy, selecting panels, preparing templates, handling demand, aligning the L&D plan to the strategic priorities and managing billing and budget.

Learn more about legal  operations:
https://www.cognialaw.com/2022/05/18/legal-operations-turning-strategic-intent-into-reality/

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The component parts have always existed with someone in the legal team picking up work related to the operations of the function. These activities typically include supporting the development and rollout of the function's strategy, selecting panels, preparing templates, handling demand, aligning the L&D plan to the strategic priorities and managing billing and budgets.

The role of legal operations is to pull these activities together in the most effective way. We believe that how you do this is a critical differentiator in the way you build a responsive and commercial legal function.

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Turning strategic intent into operational reality - Cognia

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Whether you have a formal legal operations department in place or not, most in-house teams are picking up work related to the operations of the function. We consider how GCs can embed a more strategic approach for these types of activities.

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Kathryn Williams has been appointed as head of Business Advisory by Cognia Law.

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Kathryn Williams has been appointed as head of Business Advisory by Cognia Law.

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Cognia has appointed Kathryn Williams as the new head of their business advisory team. According to  Janet Taylor-Hall, CEO at Cognia, it’s fantastic to have Kathryn on board. Her experience working with FTSE 100 companies and large public sector bodies, ideally places her to help our clients overcome their challenges. Her highly commercial approach and understanding of the complexities of delivering high-value, cost-effective legal services will be invaluable to meeting our ambitions for the growth of Cognia.

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Turning digital transformation into a high-yield investment

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Turning digital transformation into a high-yield investment

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Re-shaping contracts to reflect the latest regulatory rules and definitions is a significant challenge for in-house legal teams. When contracts need updating to stay in compliance, letting software handle the heavy lifting can free up resource and head space, allowing GCs to keep their teams focused on value added tasks.

Regulatory reform In financial services,  consumes loads of resource — especially where derivatives are concerned

Learn to know about how to manage regulatory reforms in  financial services for  turning digital transformation into a high-yield investment. https://www.cognialaw.com/2022/06/17/turning-digital-transformation-into-a-high-yield-investment/

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To help financial services legal teams manage reg reform, the ISDA has unveiled a tool called ISDA Create. It automates repetitive tasks to streamline even the most complex derivative negotiations helping parties reach timely agreement, allowing a bank to execute a bulk update of thousands of derivatives contracts in a single go.

Instead of having a team of people manually amending master agreements or continually drafting new ones, a few data points can be typed into a dashboard and added to affected derivatives agreements in the system automatically. ISDA Create also has an auto generation tool that creates a contract or amendment and then sends it immediately to a counterparty.

That's a very compelling offer. But when you consider the IT complexity already weighing down legal departments, is another legaltech solution really the answer?

A recent survey by Thompson Reuters found that in-house teams use 18 types of technology solution on average. That's a lot of software to learn, apply, integrate, and build processes around. In a focused team with a very high workload, the time available for managing technology is going to be limited.

Point solutions also tend to be designed to do one thing well. I'm certain ISDA Create will handle derivative master agreement documentation well, but it can't be extended to structured product documentation, loan agreements, NDA's, or commercial contracts.

So how do you make a versatile CLM solution with broad application across product contract suites deliver value? In the next article we'll look at the technical and process traps legal teams can fall into when integrating new technologies, with advice on how to avoid them.

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Turning digital transformation into a high-yield investment - Cognia

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To help financial services legal teams manage reg reform, the ISDA has unveiled a tool called ISDA Create. It automates repetitive tasks to streamline even the most complex derivative negotiations helping parties reach timely agreement, allowing a bank to execute a bulk update of thousands of derivatives contracts in a single go.

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A leading alternative legal services provider for corporates, banks and law firms: the complete guide to Cognia Law UK

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A leading alternative legal services provider for corporates, banks and law firms: the complete guide to Cognia Law UK

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Cognia Law is a London headquartered, leading alternative legal service provider for corporates, banks and law firms. We redefine the world of law with you. Cognia offers a wide range of legal support services, such as business advisory-, contract management-,  financial documentation, flexible resourcing and intelligent review.

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Outsourcing Legal Services– Experienced talent consistently delivering quality work for you

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Outsourcing Legal Services– Experienced talent consistently delivering quality work for you

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Whether you need legal, negotiation, project management or other skills, an experienced team can meet your brief. An integrated managed service means a unique mix of experts collaborating to efficiently run your legal operations and provide data-driven reporting. It is crucial to make use of blended teams that leverage the best of flex and managed service. Enjoy quality assurance with handpicked resources that are thoroughly vetted to meet the highest standards, while being fully supported by an established flex network.

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How to Optimize your Company’s Legal Operations

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How to Optimize your Company’s Legal Operations

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Start a strategic alignment between the business, the legal function, and legal operations to become more flexible and responsive to business needs and in-house legal roles. Understanding your legal operating model is the crucial first step. The model is a formal description of the legal services you offer, the responsibilities you play, your skill sets, and the systems and technology you employ. Read the advice to learn how to optimize your company's legal operations.

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To meet ever increasing pressure to become more agile and responsive to business needs, in-house legal functions are investing in transformation initiatives. However, all too often these initiatives disappoint or fail. We believe this is down to the lack of strategic alignment between the business, the legal function and legal operations.

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How to optimise legal operations - Cognia

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Whether you have a formal legal operations department in place or not, most in-house teams are picking up work related to the operations of the function. We consider how GCs can embed a more strategic approach for these types of activities.