Tess Okonjo's Brand File

1.1Before — the headline as it stood on 1 September 2026: “Trainee Solicitor at Fenwick Rowe LLP”. No photo. No About section. One experience line: “Trainee Solicitor, Fenwick Rowe LLP, September 2024 – present”. Last changed: September 2024.

1.2After — the headline from 7 September 2026, kept current since: “Corporate solicitor at Fenwick Rowe · company sales, investments and shareholders' agreements · Manchester”.

1.3After — the About section as it stands on 1 September 2027, first written at 120 words on 7 September 2026 and revised since: “I am a corporate solicitor at Fenwick Rowe in Manchester. I help the owners of private companies sell them, bring in investors and agree with each other how the company will be run — shareholders' agreements, investment rounds and company sales, mostly for family and founder-owned businesses in food, software and payments. I qualified in September 2026 after a training contract at the same firm. The part of the job I like most is the translation: taking a forty-page document and telling the finance director what it means in four sentences she can repeat to her board. I have given one short talk on company law to colleagues and a great many to the cat. If you work with growing companies in the North West, say hello.”

1.4The experience line, current (as at 1 September 2027): “Solicitor, corporate team — Fenwick Rowe LLP, Manchester, September 2026 to date. A 40-partner firm acting for owner-managed and family businesses in the North West. Company sales, investment rounds and shareholders' agreements; five completions as the day-to-day lawyer in my first year; trained the team's first-seat trainee day to day from February to July 2027, through his first completion; gave the team's October talk on Companies House identity checks and wrote it up as a post.”

1.5The earlier lines: “Trainee Solicitor, Fenwick Rowe LLP, September 2024 to August 2026 — four six-month seats: corporate, commercial property, employment, disputes; assisted on ten corporate deals; ran the data room on two company sales.”
“Paralegal, corporate team, Fenwick Rowe LLP, 2022 to 2024 — signing and completion bibles on twelve deals; Companies House filings for 30 companies.”
“Education: LLB (Hons), [university], 2021. Legal Practice Course, 2022.”

1.6What I post, and how often: “One post a month, under 200 words, on one point of company law I had to explain that week, as a general point — the client, the matter and the week left out. Nothing about a client, a deal or a colleague that is not already public, and nothing about a deal until the firm has announced it. Nothing about my feelings on a Monday. I reply to every comment within two days, including the ones that correct me — especially those. I update the page the week anything changes: a title, a talk, a deal I am allowed to name. Last checked: 1 September 2027. Next check: the first Monday of October.”