About Us

Stephen is an editor focusing on banking and financial compliance, M&A and capital markets with 20 years’ experience in the legal publishing field. He has most recently been a senior content editor for FT Live and the International Bar Association having previously worked as Managing Editor of Compliance Insider and AsiaLaw in Hong Kong. He was launch Editor of Asian Legal Business in Sydney and managed successful annual law awards in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney. He was also Editor of The Legal Insider for Lexis Nexis and Editor of IFLR 1000.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BA Hons International and Political Studies (Coventry University)
• International Student Exchange (Rowan College of New Jersey, US)
• The Frank Denning Memorial Award (University of Vienna, Austria)

CONTACT DETAILS

T: 44 20 7193 7248
E: smulrenan@lextelpartners.com

Richard began his editorial career with International Financial Law Review, which he edited for three years launching the M&A and global equities surveys and where he launched the IFLR Awards for Asia. He subsequently became Managing Editor 
for IFLR 1000 and International Tax Review and then Group Publisher for Legal Media Group, where he was responsible for Euromoney’s legal publishing and events division with teams in London, New York and Hong Kong. He has written for Euromoney, Project Finance, Euroweek, IFLR, International Tax Review and the Financial Times and has been an editorial adviser to the World Bank, ITU, Asian Development Bank, IDB and OECD. He is a qualified solicitor and worked for SJ Berwin & Co in London and Brussels and in-house at Schlumberger in Paris.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Maîtrise (LLM) in French Law (Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne))
• LLB Hons (King’s College London)

Maura has a BSc in biotechnology and MSc in science communication and began her career in scientific publishing, working for Elsevier and Informa.

She has been editing and writing about the legal sector, predominantly intellectual property and life sciences, for over 13 years.

As well as IP she has also written and edited extensively in the veterinary medicine, midwifery and biomedicine spaces.

Bonnie has over 15 years’ experience primarily in legal marketing and communications providing strategic support to lawyers across a range of practice areas. Bonnie worked in Asia (Beijing, Singapore and Hong Kong) before relocating to the UK in mid-2022.

While in Hong Kong, she led PR and Communications for Paul Hastings and co-managed the marketing and business development function across Asia-Pacific for seven years before joining local disputes boutique firm Gall where she was Head of Marketing. Bonnie has led legal and marketing teams on events, webinars, submissions, client communications, media interviews and thought leadership.

At Lextel Bonnie is working on content marketing campaigns as well as drafting directory and award submissions. She is a law graduate and speaks Mandarin and Cantonese at intermediate level.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
LLB Law Honours from the University of Nottingham, UK
Six-month Intensive Chinese Mandarin Course at Tsinghua University, Beijing

Natalia is a legal directories expert who has focused exclusively on this area since 2010. She has a proven track record achieving and improving law firm rankings in the major directories, including Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500.

Natalia spent 5 years at Chambers and Partners, where she was responsible for Spanish and Portuguese rankings and researched a range of other markets across Europe and Latin America. She has first-hand understanding of the research process and the reasoning behind the rankings, and uses this unique insight to advise law firms on their directories strategy, helping them make the best possible submissions.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Degree in English Studies from the University of Valladolid and a Postgraduate Certificate in Research Training from the University of Hull.

Erasmus year at University College Dublin

Diploma in Icelandic for Foreign Students from the University of Iceland.

Before joining Lextel, Mak worked on content marketing campaigns for blue chip corporates including Siemens, HERE, Mastercard, Deutsche Telekom, EY, Novo Nordisk and Nokia. He brings a wealth of best practices and digital marketing skills to the legal sector including inbound marketing skills, social media expertise and the use of data analytics, tools which companies routinely employ in their client relationship management.

At Lextel, Mak assists law firms to deliver their business development goals through account-based marketing and thought leadership campaigns.

CONTACT DETAILS

E: mak.mengal@lextelpartners.com

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BA Hons Law, Modern Languages (French and Russian) (University of Cambridge)

Willem joined Lextel in 2020 as a partner and has over 15 years’ experience in working with governmental, corporate and legal clients driving their business development through strategic marketing campaigns and inbound programmes.

Having started his career at Baker McKenzie, Willem has since held a number of leadership roles at UBM, Autonomy, Hewlett Packard and Oracle. He holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, and speaks Dutch, English, German and Spanish.

At Lextel, Willem leads the business development team working with client law firms to blend content and technology to deliver their business goals.

CONTACT DETAILS

T: +44 7576 675766
E: wfast@lextelpartners.com

Jonathan is an experienced editor, copywriter and communications professional, who has edited publications for the World Bank, UN, OECD and ITU. He was editor of Cities Today, which focuses on innovation in the public sector covering transport, IoT, energy and smart cities. With regard to content marketing, Jonathan has advised companies such as Deloitte, IBM, Ericsson, Accenture, Siemens, Mastercard, Uber and PwC. Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Sydney with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Relations.

Louise began her career as a graduate trainee in journalism at Euromoney Legal Media Group. While there she edited two editions of the International Financial Law Review 1000 and was responsible for recruiting and training a team of journalists and researchers.

She then joined City law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse in the marketing department before moving to the Mayor of London’s press office as part of the media monitoring team.

Before Lextel, Louise spent 20 years working for the access to justice charity, Legal Action Group, as deputy editor and then editor of its monthly journal Legal Action, which won the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians’ Legal Journals Award six times during her time at LAG.

Academics

BSc Honours degree in Human Sciences from Sussex University (2.1) and an MSc in Politics and International Relations from Southampton University.

Professional member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BA History (University of Southampton)