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Cathy (Catherine) Truter heads our Knowledge function for the Group, managing a team of Knowledge Lawyers, Legal Service Improvement specialists, Project Management specialists, Design Thinking experts, Trainers, Library and Research specialists. The team is fundamentally aimed at facilitating a culture of continuous collaboration, learning, efficiency and client centric service delivery in strategic focus areas of the practice; enhancing client experience; increasing efficiencies and margin; improving leverage; and enhancing our employee value proposition with rapid and targeted legal development. Most recently, Cathy was instrumental in the proof of concept and roll-out of artificial intelligence, automation and transaction management solutions across our Kenyan, Mauritius, Namibian, South African, Tanzanian, Ugandan and Zambian offices. The team is responsible for both the more traditional aspects of Knowledge and the more innovative elements of the function, with a focus on 9 key pillars including precedent creation, technical legal training, thought leadership, legal service improvement, future proofing through technologies, client value added services, research, innovation and subject matter expertise. Before stepping into this role, she was a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, focusing primarily on mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions and general corporate law in relation to public and private transactions, broad-based black economic empowerment, restructurings and South African company law and has extensive experience managing cross-border African and international transactions. She also has experience working in New York where she lived in the financial district and worked at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in the project finance practice. When not at work, Cathy can be found hiking, scuba diving, wake boarding and exploring the African bushveld.