Rob is the General Counsel and Company Secretary of The Crown Estate – a UK real estate business which manages a £14bn portfolio; including commercial property in London’s West End, retail across the country, and most of the UK seabed. A former City lawyer, Rob is the strategic lead for legal, knowledge, information security, privacy and governance at The Crown Estate.

Rob is a vocal advocate for innovation, progress and change, and has been heavily involved in reshaping his organisation and function. Outside The Crown Estate, Rob supports and leads a number of initiatives that seek to promote equality and diversity of thought, in both the property and legal sectors – including sitting on the Advisory Boards of a number of influential industry bodies. In pushing boundaries, Rob has been recognised repeatedly as an innovator, including being listed by the FT on its GC Global 25.

 

 

 

Based in London, I am a Solicitor in our leading Technology, Outsourcing and Privacy Group maintaining my involvement in both data protection and commercial technology matters.

 

I assist domestic and international clients with the full spectrum of data protection compliance matters and a range of non-contentious technology matters, including multi-million-pound outsourcing projects.

 

In particular, I pursue a keen interest in emerging technologies in the digital media, health and advertising/marketing tech spaces. I also enjoy regularly undertaking client training.

 

Currently, I am on secondment with BMI Group and am supporting implementation of international operational data protection compliance, previously I was seconded to Home Retail Group plc.

 

In my spare time, you'll find me either playing or watching sport and enjoying time with friends and family.

 

 

Baljeet Panesar is Senior Legal Counsel at Deutsche Post DHL, working in the IT Legal Services team.  This is her first in-house role, and also a recent move into tech law, as Baljeet previously worked in Dentons’ London office advising on M&A transactions.  Whereas she previously advised on a wide variety of complex M&A transactions, across a range of sectors and jurisdictions, (such as joint ventures, auction sales, re-organisations, privatisations, and M&A in distressed circumstances), her current work diet revolves around saas agreements, master licensing and services agreements and the like, which is a bit of a contrast.