V&S - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Corporate Commercial Partner With Broad Experience of UK
Cosma is a corporate commercial partner with broad experience of UK and international cross-border transactions across a variety of industry sectors.
Cosma is dually qualified as a UK solicitor and as an Italian lawyer (avvocato) and has gained substantial private practice and in-house experience both in Italy and in London, where he has worked at the Office of Fair Trading and at a major city law firm.
Shazia is a partner specialising in commercial and corporate matters and areas of employment law. Her practice as a lawyer has included dealing with structured finance, commercial contracts and business development. She covers aspects of company law, debt recovery, a wide range of corporate and general commercial agreements and business law issues.
Shazia's clients consist of SMEs and she often works alongside different in-house business teams, which contributes to her all-round knowledge and understanding of the needs of corporate clients.
Her experience includes having worked in-house as legal counsel for a London based asset management company in the City where she was responsible for drafting and negotiating all contracts affecting the business and running the day-to-day legalities of the firm.
In her spare time Shazia enjoys creative writing and travelling. She is fluent in Urdu and Hindi and has intermediate knowledge of Italian.