Smith Hamilton was founded in 2014 as a boutique firm focused on corporate and commercial law, with expertise in fund management and advising senior executives, shareholders and entrepreneurs.
In 2023, the firm became part of MEUM Group, a multidisciplinary platform supporting ultra-high-net-worth individuals, their families and their businesses. During this period, our practice broadened significantly to include family, private client, education, charities and regulatory work, employment, and dispute resolution.
The law firm is now building on that growth to operate independently once again under the Smith Hamilton name. This transition reflects a natural progression in our growth and allows us to focus fully on delivering an integrated legal service under a single specialist brand, while retaining the expanded expertise developed over recent years.
For our clients, it remains very much business as usual – the same team, the same relationships, and an even broader depth of capability.
Paul is a senior transformation executive, sustainability expert, chief executive, and chairman.
With 20 years of experience leading complex change programmes, growing and scaling new enterprises, and delivering large-scale programmes, Paul is now using these skills to meet the urgent challenges of building a green economy and supporting the transition to Carbon Net-Zero.
Paul is a business transformation expert, passionate about helping transform business for a sustainable future. He focuses on two main areas: Firstly ESG consulting (in particular working with organisations to meet regulatory requirements such as SFDR, TCFD and SECR). Secondly to create Greentech solutions to reverse biodiversity loss and mitigate carbon emissions. In particular he has developed a marketplace platform for biodiversity net gain, to create financial assets for biodiversity net gain and spur the public and private sector to invest in nature.
Paul is also the Founder of Delivering London, a start-up to create a dense hyper-local network of open parcel lockers for customers, businesses, and carriers. The company has secured funding (£8.5m) for a rollout of 1,000 lockers across London. The network is designed to reduce congestion, air pollution, and van emissions across London, whilst making collecting and delivering parcels simple, easy, and convenient.
Paul’s areas of expertise include; ESG advisory, corporate governance, Greentech innovation, and target net zero operating model. He has delivered new company launches, and financial services transformation as well as founding three successful companies, the first of which he sold in 2016.
Expertise
- Bank Integration
- Biodiversity Net Gain
- Green Tech
- Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)
- Financial Services transformation
- Net Zero Transformation
Education + Career
Education:
Nottingham
Trinity School
Year of qualification: 1994 & 1995 (Masters)
Key firms/companies:
Accenture
LOC Consulting
iBe
Klere Ltd
Ingenious Laboratories Ltd
Consulting client examples:
Lloyds Banking Group
HSBC
John Lewis
Delivering London
Vanquis Bank
