Richard Fleck, CBE, is a consultant with the UK law firm, Herbert Smith. As a partner of Herbert Smith from 1980 until 2009, he had a wide-ranging practice embracing international corporate transactions, dispute resolution, and competition and regulation, including:
- transactions for NYSE (Euronext), Time Warner (AOL), Fortune Brands (Pernod Ricard/Allied Domecq), Grand Metropolitan (now Diageo), BAT, De Beers, Virgin and Fosters Brewing Group;
- international commercial disputes such as the collapse of Enron, the DeLorean Motor Car Group, Johnson Matthey Bankers, the Reksten Shipping Group bankruptcy and resulting investigation, the disputes involving Lonrho/House of Fraser, and Nissan UK/Nissan Motor Company Limited, and the settlement of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market dispute.
In surveys of the General Counsel of Fortune 1000 companies undertaken by Fortune magazine to identify those lawyers who provide outstanding client service, he was one of only 3 lawyers to be nominated in four successive years – in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
His external activities include: