Workshop 1 - Speaker Profile

Philip Brown - H4 Partners

Philip Brown is a consultant who specialises in assisting law firms both in the U.K. and internationally with strategic development and management issues. He was a senior consultant with Hodgart Consulting and then with Hildebrandt, the U.S. based consultants following its merger with Hodgart Consulting, and now works closely with Alan Hodgart at H4 Partners. He has lectured widely on issues facing law firms, both at partners’ conferences and at public meetings such as the International Bar Association.

Philip is a lawyer by training, having studied at Columbia University in New York and at the College of Law in London. He has been admitted to the bars in New York and New Jersey and practiced as an English solicitor. He was a partner at Wilde Sapte (now Denton Wilde Sapte) in London for 20 years, specialising in international finance. From 1988 to 1994 he was managing partner of the firm.

He also sits as a commercial mediator.