Jenny Chambers

Head of General Commercial Contracts Capability

Jennifer leads the General Commercial Contracts capability within the Legal Business Solutions NewLaw practice, bringing 15+ years’ qualified solicitor experience of advising on business processes and a broad range of ICT, outsourcing and commercial contracts.

Jennifer has extensive experience running Contract Optimisation, Managed Legal Services and Contract Review and Remediation projects, and providing a wide range of commercial and strategic advice to an array of public and private sector clients across a number of sectors, including FS, Manufacturing, Retail, Services and Transport.

I am passionate about helping clients to transform and optimise their contracting processes, structures and lifecycle, and to manage regulatory change. I am privileged to have already worked with numerous clients across a variety of sectors to achieve this and I am excited at the prospect of helping more clients.

Optimisation and legal transformation enables businesses to maximise their ability to manage contracts and generate revenue, improve data insights and use of legal resources, and minimise their legal spend. We can provide the advice, insights and tools you need to plan and progress your legal optimisation and transformation journey.

• Setting up and overseeing delivery of a managed legal service for procurement agreements, and an allocation service, for an international financial services organisation.
• Contract review, optimisation and standardisation of global contracting model and documentation for a major international retailer. Assisting the client’s in-house legal team with transition to a revised Global Framework Agreement, including negotiations and correspondence with the client’s suppliers.
• Leading a variety of contract lifecycle management implementation projects, which involve reviewing/updating/optimising templates and playbooks, creating and populating the framework for implementation of such (including the creation of clause libraries and contract rules/questions for contract generation).
• Leading a contract optimisation project for an international transport company to design the blueprint for a clause library and negotiation playbook and contract automation questions and reporting fields across multiple contract types.
• Leading a variety of contract review and remediation projects for public and private sectors clients in relation to compliance with data protection legislation.
• Contracting optimisation projects to create templates and playbooks.
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating various general commercial contracts for clients within various industries/sectors.