About | new

Ian Greig

MBA, BSc (Hons), GDL

Director/Legal Consultant

Ian is an experienced entrepreneur, company director and business advisor.

For 10+ years he has worked predominantly in director roles at start-ups.

Ian has founded or co-founded 8 businesses and advised hundreds of businesses and brands.

Dr David Wolff

PhD

Senior Consultant

David has experience founding 35 companies, acquiring 128 and successfully exiting 18 businesses.

David has acquired hundreds more for clients while helping them scale quickly.

He helps founders create multi-million dollar businesses.

Josh Smith

MA/LPC, BSc (Hons), GDL

Senior Business & Legal Consultant

Qualified solicitor and freelance legal and business consultant with 9+ years of experience in corporate, commercial and finance –within private practice and in-house (UK and UAE).

Highlights include having worked as legal counsel within the investment team at Schroders' London HQ, consultant at MUFG Bank (Japan's largest bank), a secondary school governor, and an analyst/project consultant at Credit Suisse (via D2LT).

Robyn MacMhaoinigh

LLB, B.Bus Sc

Senior Business & Legal Consultant

Robyn has two decades of business advisory experience, including as a legal and business consultant to a global client base, and as a practising South African attorney.

Her international experience brings insights from the UK, Europe and Africa to help leaders build agile and resilient organisations based on global best practice.

Laura Reilly

FInstLM, Chartered MCIPD, ACILEx

Senior Employment/HR Consultant

Laura is an experienced and qualified HR director specialising in employment law, talent acquisition and development, organisational development, employment relations and advocacy.

She was previously a director of a medium-sized accountancy practice, and has 15+ years of private and non-profit sector HR experience, including at board level.

Innovative + alternative.

We have been trading since February 2022 and are making steady strides in the marketplace as a legal provider of choice for new and established businesses and consultancies alike.

New is a legal consultancy, not a law firm. Law firms are heavily regulated and must adhere to strict rules, compliance procedures and insurance requirements, which come with high operating costs. This partly explains why they are often rigid and expensive.

Our legal services. The legal services that New and its network of consultants offer, including commercial and corporate legal services, and compliance solutions, fall outside of the ‘reserved activities’ set out in the Legal Services Act 2007 (LSA), and are therefore ‘unreserved activities’ or ‘non-reserved activities’. This means that we are free to practice those areas of English law, and others, without being required to be regulated and authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).

We are alternative & innovative. We comply with all applicable laws, however we aren’t regulated and restricted by the regulations imposed on law firms. This means we can be innovative in our approach: we shape our solutions, pricing, and business model around you, because we have that flexibility. We work to our own high standards and set out own rules and procedures.

Our network of legal consultants. Unless otherwise notified to you in writing, none of our legal consultants act as solicitors regulated and authorised by the SRA. Consultants who may be practising solicitors independently of New, are acting as ‘legal consultants’ for services they supply to you, and not as regulated and authorised solicitors, even if they are admitted to practice law in England and Wales and are registered as solicitors with the SRA, with current practicing certificates. Our other legal consultants are not qualified solicitors but are competent professionals with the right legal experience and knowledge to deliver.