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Catie Butt

Executive Director, Consulting

Email

Catie.Butt@aoshearman.com

Phone

+1 646 3446653

Offices

New York

V-CARD
Catie provides strategic advice and consulting support on a broad range of business, legal and compliance transformation projects.

Catie has led the business transformation practice within Consulting by A&O Shearman since 2019. She assists in a wide range of transformation areas including pre and post merger support, functional transformation including legal and compliance functions, designing and operationalizing KPIs, and developing, updating, and implementing strategies and operating models to achieve business objectives.

She is widely recognized for employing her extensive in-house, legal service provider and consulting experiences to provide practical and proportionate assistance for transformation projects of all sizes and scale. Catie is based in A&O Shearman’s New York office and is a member of the senior leadership team.

Catie has worked as a business executive and legal professional for more than 25 years across all geographies, industries and sectors. In all of her endeavours, Catie drives desired outcomes using a combination of executive leadership, business acumen, functional expertise, technology and data, process innovation and right resources for right tasks.

Industries

Technology

Experience

Representative matters

Assisting a leading materials testing company to integrate companies and surpass synergy targets after its largest-ever acquisition.

Assisting a Middle Eastern regulatory body to develop a new legal strategy aligned to strategic business objectives, a new target operating model, and a detailed implementation roadmap, factoring a benchmark of similarly situated legal functions and industry best practices.

Designing a legal and compliance KPIs and reporting program within a global asset manager to demonstrate value delivered by the function, utilize data to inform decision-making and better manage business risk.

Implementing an AI-focused contract management platform for a global fund administrator.

Designing and implementing a new target operating model for the legal and compliance function at a leading materials testing company.

Developing group level, cross-functional RACI charts for a global materials testing company.

Conducting legal stakeholder interviews for a U.S. clean energy company; developing a summary findings report with recommendations for developing a optimal legal function aligned with business strategy and objectives.

Delivering a workload mapping and optimization project for members of the legal & compliance function at a global materials testing company.

Transforming legal operating models to outsource the transactions, litigation, immigration, contracts & commercial management and legal operations functions for a ~26B global IT outsourcing company.

 

Speaking Engagements

  • Moderator, Starting from the Ground Up: Effectively Building Your Legal Teams, Women, Influence & Power in Law Conference, October 2023
  • Discussion Lead, Smarter, Better, Faster: Advancing Legal Service Delivery, Global Counsel Leaders, May 2023
  • Speaker, Reinventing Professionals: guiding corporate legal departments on transformation, Podcast, 2022
  • Speaker, Legal innovation webinar recording: Reporting the value of legal services, Webinar, March 2022
  • Speaker / presenter, Quantifying and Articulating the Value of the In-House Legal Function, CLOC Global Institute 2022
  • Speaker, Legal innovation podcast: How outsourcing can enhance the operational effectiveness of the in-house legal function, Podcast, September 2021
     

Recognition

“Catie and her team have been fantastic in supporting us though this [integration] process. She has been an essential member of the team and has so helped me. I don’t know what we (especially me!) would have done without her help”
SVP and Group General Counsel for a global corporate

Qualifications

Academic

Juris Doctor, Suffolk Law School, 1996

Bachelor of Arts, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1991

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.