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Neil McGregor is a British corporate & commercial lawyer and man of business who has been based in Bucharest since 1996, working with international and local companies in various countries in south central Europe.  A corporate governance specialist, he began his career working with listed companies in the UK and began to invest in listed companies in the privatisations carried out under Margaret Thatcher’s government.  As well as dealing with the practical issues of regulatory disclosures, organising general meetings of shareholders and liaising with institutional investors, his UK experience includes taking one client company to an initial listing on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and subsequently to a full listing on the London Stock Exchange.
In addition to the legal work which he and his colleagues provide for Romanian companies (including mergers and acquisitions work relating to listed and unlisted targets), Neil continues to provide legal work under English law for companies in the UK, using the same standards in each.  This includes dealing with company secretarial work, such as acting as the company secretary of a regulated educational charity in the UK.
Particularly since becoming the Chairman of the bilateral British Romanian Chamber of Commerce, Neil has sought to use the Chamber and its links with business, government and diplomacy to promote good corporate governance and, consequently, of the participation of good companies with sustainable businesses in the capital markets.
In early 2018 Neil became an independent non-executive director of Purcari Wineries Public Company Limited on its IPO, being a Cypriot company listed in the main index of the Bucharest Stock Exchange with operational subsidiaries in Romania and in Republica Moldova.  Neil chairs the nomination, remuneration & corporate governance committee and also sits on the audit committee of the Board of Purcari Wineries.
Having made his legal studies at the University of Aberdeen and at King’s College London, Neil has previously been a partner in the international law firms Stephenson Harwood (with which his law firm McGregor & Partners maintains an association) and Sinclair Roche & Temperley.  He is a solicitor qualified in England & Wales and in Scotland, as well as being a member of the Bucharest Bar in Romania and the Sofia Bar in Bulgaria.
Although resident in Bucharest, he retains his links with the UK: he is one of the founders of the Bucharest Caledonian Ball (supporting guide dogs for the blind in Romania) and is a member of Scottish Enterprise’s GlobalScot business network.