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Richard Tapp is Company Secretary and Director of Legal Services at Carillion plc. Carillion plc is a major FTSE-listed integrated support services and construction business operating in the UK and internationally. He leads professional teams numbering more than 150 people, including a team of some 30 qualified legal staff globally in Carillion’s legal team, the group’s Ethics and Compliance Office, Corporate Secretariat, Communications, Government Affairs, Mergers and Acquisitions and Global Insurance teams. He is the architect of the ground-breaking Carillion Advice Services - a managed legal services team which provides a range of legal services and resources, both through a number of new legal sourcing offerings and through the Legal Aid Scheme. He has led a range of innovative legal sourcing arrangements for Carillion, including the formation and development of the Carillion Legal Network, and the integration of its work with that of Carillion Legal and Carillion Advice Services. He is the general editor of The Future of the In-House Lawyer: the General Counsel Revolutino (Law Society Publishing - to be published Spring 2016) co-author of In-House Lawyers’ Toolkit (Law Society) and Managing External Legal Resources (ICSA) and speaks and writes on in-house, legal practice management and corporate governance issues. He was FT Innovative Lawyers European In-House Lawyer of the year in 2013. Before joining Carillion plc in 2002, he was for six years Company Secretary and Group Legal Adviser for Blue Circle Industries PLC, a FTSE 100 heavy building materials business operating globally. He has specialised in corporate and compliance work, leading merger and acquisition work internationally and having responsibility for competition and anti-trust work in a number of jurisdictions. He has established, run and integrated in-house legal teams in North and South America, Europe, Australasia, the Middle East and Asia. Richard is a Solicitor. He holds Batchelor’s and Master’s degrees in law, and a Master of Business Administration. He is also a qualified Chartered Secretary and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He is Visiting Faculty at the International Law Management Executive Programme for senior lawyers run by Instituto Empresa in Madrid.