First-class law graduate, ranked top 5% of cohort. Clifford Chance award winner. Published on law and economics. Currently building and managing legal and agentic AI projects at Mercor, one of the world’s largest AI training vendors. CV available upon request.
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Mercor · Project Manager
Aug 2025 – Present
Mercor
Project Manager
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Clifford Chance Competition Excellence Award (2025)
Awarded for placing 1/80 and writing the best paper, as selected by a Clifford Chance partner and senior lawyer. The paper analyses EU and UK merger regulation in innovation-driven markets, focusing on under-enforcement risks and the evolving role of digital competition frameworks such as the DMA and DMCC.
British and Irish Commercial Awareness Competition (2025)
Placed Top 15 out of 2000 students, demonstrating advanced written advocacy and commercial legal reasoning under time constraints.
open_in_newCompetition WebsiteUEA Legal Triathlon (2023)
Won a six-month in-house competition built around a client interview, negotiation, and full mock trial. Worked through a tort dispute from start to finish, developing arguments, shaping strategy, and handling the evidence at each stage.
Ex-Managing Director
Oakwood Student Fund
Managing Director from 2023–25. Led a team of 40 analysts at the UK’s first ESG student fund, with a focus on AI-driven businesses, legal risk, and investment analysis. Redesigned the fund’s visual identity and designed the 2024 Annual Report.
I now sit on the advisory board, contributing my experience from professional practice to benefit the fund, and subsequently the bright minds that are taking the initiative to further their own skills.
Working Papers
Minimum Wage and Crime: Evidence from the UK
Published 6 Aug 2025
Examines the relationship between minimum wage increases and crime using Becker’s economic model and empirical evidence from the UK and US, showing that wage rises can reduce crime where employment effects remain stable, but may increase it where labour market opportunities are weakened.
open_in_newDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5358421The Singapore Convention and the Future of the New York Convention
Published 23 Jul 2025
Analyses whether the Singapore Convention on Mediation is likely to rival the New York Convention, concluding that structural limitations mean it will act as a complementary enforcement mechanism rather than displacing arbitration’s dominant role.
open_in_newDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5350771Penguins, Protectionism, and the Price of Global Trade
Made available 5 Apr 2025
Analyses the legal and economic implications of renewed US tariff policy, protectionism, market reactions, and the strain placed on the WTO rules-based trading system.
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