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CEO and COO of Yerra Solutions Ltd UK Reinforce Company’s Expertise in Legal Operations and Law Firm Services
Yerra Solutions AG, a company offering legal and IP consultancy, managed services and technology products to Fortune® 500 clients, today announced that it has hired two executives for its newly established offices in London and Sunderland.
With more than 35 years of combined experience, Stacey Coote and Caroline O’Grady contribute valuable insight to critical legal operations areas such as law firm panel management and legal spend management.
The new offices and the addition of Coote and O’Grady further the company’s vision of guiding Fortune 500 law and IP departments to a higher level of operational and technological success.
“The establishment of Yerra Solutions Ltd UK and the addition of experienced executives such as Stacey and Caroline fuel our global reach and growth as well as the company’s focus on the alignment of strategy, operations and technology for legal organisations,” said Rajitha Boer, founder and director of Yerra Solutions AG. “Sunderland in particular will evolve into a Centre of Excellence for the company, featuring new client offerings for Yerra Solutions that will be announced within the next month.”
Stacey Coote joins Yerra Solutions Ltd UK as chief executive officer. He has nearly two decades of experience managing vendor relationships in large organisations including Accenture, AIG, AstraZeneca, RBS and PwC as well as a large UK law firm. Since 2001, he has specialised in managing relationships with law firms as well as the operations of law departments. He has handled complex implementations of eBilling and matter management solutions throughout APAC and EMEA and completed numerous legal spend management projects worldwide.
Caroline O’Grady comes on as chief operating officer and general counsel of Yerra Solutions Ltd UK. She is a UK-qualified lawyer who served as a commercial litigation lawyer at Kennedys before transitioning to global insurer AIG. While at AIG, she led a team responsible for high-value commercial insurance disputes. As panel director within AIG’s Legal Operations Centre, she handled all aspects of AIG's law firm relationships, compliance and reporting as well as legal spend initiatives across EMEA and APAC. She has also supported an eBilling technology tool implementation in the UK for the company.
The London office will serve as headquarters for Yerra Solutions Ltd UK and can be reached by dialling 0203-755-5290. The Sunderland Centre of Excellence can be reached by dialling 0191-501-8600.
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