Jessica Winter is general counsel at U.K. money transfer service Wise. She was formerly the company’s head of corporate, where she took a key role on the company’s IPO in July 2021, which valued the company at £8 billion. Prior to moving in-house, she worked in private practice, including at Herbert Smith Freehills.

Here, she discusses which firms she never wants to work with, her most memorable private practice experience and what general counsels need to do more — and less — of.

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