gunnercooke is one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, providing a wide range of corporate and commercial legal services to businesses, banks and financial institutions. The firm was founded in 2010 to challenge, improve and evolve the way that legal services are delivered. We believe that the legal industry serves neither clients nor lawyers the way it should. Our founders set about doing things differently from day one, flattening out the traditional hierarchy and establishing a new model based upon flexibility, transparency and freedom.   

All gunnercooke lawyers have a client-focused approach and at least 10,000 hours’ practising experience. They also operate on a fixed-fee basis, meaning work is scoped out from the outset and cost certainty is guaranteed. As a result, all clients have access to trusted advisors who have a breadth of experience and knowledge, enabling them to work on all matters from straightforward transactions to complicated cases that require complex solutions.

The firm has been recognised for 44 industry awards and currently employs over 330 legal professionals and management consultants across seven offices; London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Berlin.

Noreen Weiss is an accomplished corporate and transactional lawyer and management advisor, with over 25 years’ experience advising the C-Suite, Boards of Directors, and investors on all manner of finance, commercial and transactional matters.  As a practicing lawyer in London, Tokyo and New York,  Noreen has spent her career focused on international work at the highest level of business and finance, with deep expertise in domestic and cross border finance and business structuring, corporate finance deals from seed and angel investments through to late state venture capital investments and Regulation D private offerings and IPOs, capital markets (global debt and equity offerings) and cross border business development transactions such as M&A and joint ventures.  She represents US and non-US start-ups and emerging companies, frequently as outside general counsel where she handles an array of commercial and operational issues including corporate governance and product licensing, and product and materials acquisition and distribution, in addition to assisting them with raising capital from angel investors and venture capital firms.  She also has a particular expertise assisting non-US businesses expand into the United States through subsidiaries, divisions or branch offices, and US businesses expanding abroad, and in representing private and family office, venture capital, and private equity investors. 

Industries:  Noreen represents clients from a broad spectrum of industries such as start-up and emerging technology companies in fintech including equity crowdfunding and platforms for the sale of securities over the Internet, software design, e-commerce, mobile telecommunications, and big data; multinational conglomerates in television and film; consumer products and retail; investment banks and banks.  She also provides US Securities Law advice to overseas investment funds.

Background: A former in-house counsel for Home Box Office (HBO), a Fortune 100 Company, Noreen understands the practical business challenges that executives face each and every day, and she brings this business-minded perspective to all her client matters. Additionally, her experience living and working for several years in London and Tokyo provides valuable insights when serving her international client base.