Gaynor Wood is general counsel at CLS, a global financial market infrastructure, based in London. Gaynor was called to the Bar in 1994. Gaynor is a Bencher of Gray’s Inn, Chair of the Bar Association for Commerce, Finance & Industry (BACFI) and a member of the Bank of England JSC Legal Sub-Committee.
Heading into a career in law was uncharted territory for Gaynor Wood and this had a very important upside – the general counsel and BACFI Chair shares 30 years’ lessons learnt at the employed Bar
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