Our Directors

Liz trained at Shearman & Sterling, New York and is an experienced emerging markets lawyer, who qualified to practice law in England and the State of New York.

From 1980 to 1986 at World Bank, she was a lawyer responsible for the legal aspects of lending operations and project finance to six countries in francophone Africa, and the banking and water sectors in Mauritius and Cyprus. She then became the senior lawyer responsible for operations in Turkey (USD1 billion per annum), including the design of the framework for regulation of the financial sector and various hydroelectric projects.

After completing her degree at INSEAD, she joined Slaughter and May, Paris in 1987 to work on sovereign debt rescheduling for Brazil, Argentina and Cuba. In 1989 she moved to London to join Price Waterhouse privatisation team as a senior manager advising on the privatisation of utilities and the regulatory framework for monopolies. She then became part of the team advising the Malaysian Economic Planning Unit on the proposed privatisation of utilities, ports, and roads and also joined a separate project managing the actual privatisation of Malaysian electricity and the development of its regulatory framework.

From 1991 to 1996 she was part of the founding legal team as one of the two assistant general counsels at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development with overall responsibility for legal work relating to the financing of venture capital investments and public infrastructure projects in Eastern Europe.
She advised BMP, a UK based telecom consultancy, on legal aspects of telecom privatisations and joined Lehman Brothers on a part time basis as corporate counsel (Europe) before becoming a director of HSC in 2012.

Liz is a graduate of Oxford University where she studied law; she earned an LLM from the University of Michigan and an MBA from INSEAD.