Lara is an experienced financial services chief legal officer, general counsel, and company secretary with international experience.  She’s skilled in regulatory, payments, enterprise risk management, consumer protection, SME law, offshore, employee relations (contentious and non-contentious), corporate transactions, and commercial banking. An Independent Non-Executive Director at PensionBee Group plc, a Board Trustee at Shaw Trust, a Contributing Editor, at LexisNexis Encyclopaedia of Banking Law, and a Fellow of The RSA. 'Business Woman of the Year' & 'Corporate Leader', 2018 FL National Awards. Ranked in The Lawyer Hot 100 2021. BBBA Financial Services Senior Leader of the Year 2021, ‘Woman in Legal’ winner of the 2022 Women4Africa Awards. Formerly, Zepz's Chief Legal Officer and Group General Counsel, Contis General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer, legal director at Klarna, senior legal counsel at Barclays and BAE Systems, a divisional counsel at RAC, a legal director at HBOS (Lloyds Banking Group) and Group Head of Legal at Lex (Lex Autolease). Former co-opted member of the University of Cambridge Council Committee (CBELA) that advised the Vice-Chancellor on benefactions. A solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and a barrister of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. A law graduate (LL.B Hons)  of the University of Lagos with an LL.M in Comparative Company Law.