Siri Siriwardene

Experience

• I am head of commercial advisory and private wealth at BLM, having joined the firm in January 2018.
• Commercial advisory consists of business-facing legal services such as commercial litigation, employment law, company and commercial advice, regulatory law and commercial property. For private clients, our services include estate planning and probate, conveyancing, family law and criminal defence.
• The team has a national and international reach across all sectors, and represents a client base ranging from small businesses to large corporates as well as private clients.
• I am not a solicitor and therefore my role is to ensure that clients at the firm receive a first rate service, where we bring our expertise and skills, combined with driving forward innovation and growth. My ambition, like all my peers at BLM, is to ensure that BLM remains at the forefront of legal services provision.
• I have over 20 years' experience in running teams, departments and organisations; 16 years of this is within the legal sector and most recently as the head of general law at an international law firm. I bring expertise in strategic planning, change management, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, operational management, financial reporting and the creation of new business units, a skill-set that complements the innovation and growth strategy at BLM.