LAWHAWK - Key Persons
Before co-founding LawHawk, Allen also worked as a lawyer. Immediately before LawHawk, he worked at Barclays in London for four years, managing the team responsible for negotiating derivatives documentation with clients with hedging requirements. Besides his "day job", Allen consistently found ways to improve the bank's processes. He was instrumental to various technology solutions relating to derivatives documents, including document automation initiatives.
Before Barclays, Allen worked at Buddle Findlay in the banking and finance teams in Wellington and Auckland, while also carrying out secondments with BNZ and Kiwibank.
Allen has substantial knowledge of legal operations, and has also worked as Associate General Counsel- Legal Operations, at Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities.
Gene founded LawHawk with Allen Li in 2016, after a 17-year career as a corporate and finance lawyer.
Before founding LawHawk, he was a corporate and finance partner at Buddle Findlay for six years. He has previously also worked at Chapman Tripp, Westpac, and CMS Cameron McKenna in London. He has acted on many significant corporate and finance transactions, and been ranked by IFLR as a leading lawyer in both Corporate and Banking.
Gene has a long-standing interest in precedents and document automation, and first implemented document automation for Westpac in 2000, reducing preparation time for business banking and property finance loan documents from an hour to 3 minutes. Document automation has been a career-long goal.
By 2012 Gene realised that high-quality legal document automation could be done only by someone with legal and automation skills, and with specialist document automation software. So he learned HotDocs automation, and the idea for LawHawk came from there.
Gene also has an MBA (Dist) from Victoria University (graduating first in class), which helps him understand and design effective business processes and strategies.
Gene is on the Advisory Board of the Australasian College of Law's Centre for Legal Innovation.
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