Nick Emmerson

Immediate past president of the Law Society and Council member for Leeds

Nick Emmerson was the 179th president of the Law Society of England and Wales and the Council member for Leeds.

Nick is a partner at Lewis Mathys Emmerson LLP and a specialist in international capital markets transactions and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

He is fluent in Japanese, having spent time working in Tokyo, as well as Hong Kong, Shanghai, Leeds and London.

Nick has also been admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong and the Republic of Ireland, and as an attorney at law in the State of California.

Nick Emmerson stands in the Law Society library, London. Nick is a white man with short, wavy brown hair. He wears a black suit, white shirt and navy tie.

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