Cohorts

Alain Cohen

Chairman, LSC Programme Steering & Commissioning Board

Professional Profile

Alain has nearly fifty years of professional and business experience encompassing law and industry.

Having set up as a sole practitioner in 1973, a firm which later expanded into a multi partnered organisation, Alain put his legal practice behind him in 1977 and set up a construction company to develop and build private housing and commercial projects throughout Greater Manchester.

In 1987 after a brief resumption of his law firm, Alain together with a business associate then established a small conglomerate of companies comprising door manufacturing, timber and builders merchants, transport and an investment vehicle which included insurance and forestry interests. After the business was sold in 1997 Alain moved to London, returned to the law and for the following eighteen years or so practised as a specialist in employment and commercial agency law.

Alain brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to both Coplexia Corporation and our extended Collaborative members. Internally, he sits as special advisor on the LSC Programme Steering & Commissioning Board, and will assist in the training and mentoring of our young recruits. Alain is also charged to help external clients with some of their most challenging decisions, from the strategic to the operational, a role that often calls for his supervision of CoBRA consultants to ensure co-operational excellence and ultimate success.

Amir Khodaparast

Founding Partner

Professional Profile

Amir Khodaparast is the founder and Managing Partner of Coplexia Collaborative LLP, which he now runs as Managing Director of Coplexia Corporation Ltd. He is the creative mind that imagined our cooperating model and the transformational force that drove it from concept to reality. His vision of an infinitely fairer and better ways of being is what continues to drive our development and growth with the help of consulting cohorts and collaborators who share our values and work with us as Virtually One.

With broad knowledge of the full change & transformation cycle from a Management Consulting, Programme development, Project and Service Delivery perspective, Amir offers some 20 years of global experience helping clients agree shared visions of success, innovate collaboration strategies and benefit from technology-enabled change & transformational initiatives.

Serving as the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia (EMEA) professional services lead for two of the world’s largest distributors of electronic components, Amir’s earliest achievements include recognition as the catalyst in the adoption of ‘lean’ future Operating Models for some twohundred manufacturing plants and their international supply-chains spanning 20+ cities, 12 countries and 4 continents. His rare experience later helped PwC’s PRTM create the internationally recognised Supply-Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model for discrete manufacturing.

Prior to that Amir was instrumental in pioneering and collaborative transformational initiatives that converged City traders with the private investor community. Exploiting ‘old’ terrestrial TV technology to disrupt the market, he product managed software and services that provisioned the UK’s first-ever free equity price datafeeds to mass market; later innovating joint incentives marketing campaigns with established City brokerages to generate an explosion in demand for low cost real-time financial market data in partnership with the London Stock Exchange, Reuters, Bloomberg and the like.

Today, Amir continues to be hands-on with helping clients succeed in their most important transformational initiatives, improving the probability of success through a suite of Collaborative-Business Readiness Assurance (CoBRA) workstreams and shared services centre to deliver the promise of prosperity through partnership in the digitally connected collaborative age.

Anthony Croxson

Corporate Legal Counsel

Professional Profile

After qualifying in 1970, Tony spent the first stages of his career with the Government Legal Service and in the Tax department of a large city practice.

He subsequently worked for a period of 12 years in finance and investment banking where he was involved in developing innovative investment structures. He then returned to the legal profession where he has remained for the last 28 years, first as a partner in a West End firm, and more recently as a consultant solicitor dealing with corporate and commercial clients of all sizes.

Tony has advised Coplexia on the development of the LSC Programme and kindly continues to support the programme as special adviser to the LSC Programme Steering & Commission Board. He is also assisting Coplexia in the development of the Corporate & Commercial practices of Lexia Law.

Christopher Hutson

Consulting Partner, LSC Programme Steering & Commissioning Board Member

Professional Profile

Chris was admitted as a solicitor on 1st June 1972 and offers us the benefit of 42 years of post-qualification experience (net of a career break 1987-91).

He was the senior litigation solicitor at Fairchild Greig in London for a total of 37 years (1 year as an associate, 9 years as a partner and 27 years as a consultant). In this time he has conducted a wide variety of civil litigation, and over the past 18 years he has specialised particularly in the fields of personal injury claims, professional negligence (primarily solicitors’ negligence), property and landlord/tenant claims, and employment claims/matters.

Chris has been accredited as a senior litigator, an area in which he has been a great help to us as Special Advisor to the LSC Programme Steering & Commission Board, and in the shaping of Lexia Law.

Duncan Halliday

Senior Partner, LSC Programme Steering & Commissioning Board Member

Professional Profile

The Solicitors practice of Fairchild Greig & Co., first established in West London in 1919 by William Fairchild Greig, became the second oldest firm in the area and in 1936, William’s son Roger took over the running of the office until his retirement as senior partner in 1974, handing over the reigns to Mr Oliver Dobbs as senior partner in 1974 who established an office at Gerrards Cross, under the name of Fairchild Dobbs & Co.

Mr Duncan Halliday became the principal in 1997 when Fairchild Dobbs & Co. became a separate practice. He had joined the firm as an associate solicitor in 1978, became a partner in 1989, and continued to run the practice until March 2018 when the practice closed with the view to retirement.

In April 2018, Mr Halliday was persuaded to join Coplexia Collaborative LLP to assist in the development of our Legal Services Continuum (LSC) Programme, whose objectives are to help solicitors across England & Wales to improve their performance, profitability and pension pots. While the practice of Fairchild Greig has closed, its good name and reputation shall live on as part of plans to relaunch it as a pan-London legal practice offering a broad range of legal services to the domestic and international market by 2019 – in time for its centenary .

In the meantime, as a Member of the LSC Programme Steering & Commissioning Board, Mr Halliday is helping Coplexia stay grounded as we develop Lexia Law, a brand new legal services bureau with innovative plans work very differently within the legal and related professions. Watch this space!

Thomas Bluett

Senior Partner, LSC Programme Steering & Commissioning Board Member

Professional Profile

Tom Bluett has a law degree from the University of London and has been admitted as a solicitor for more than 30 years.

Having qualified with a reputable firm in Richmond, Perry & Co, in 1980, Tom spend some twelve years working with other reputable firms in London including the likes of Prince Evens and Hart Fortgang where he experienced their transition to Booth Bennett (now known as IBB Solicitors).

Tom then established his own practice in North London, later expanding to West London, where he ran a successful operation for a number of years until he joined Coplexia in October 2017. He has kindly undertaken the roles of Compliance Officer for Legal Practice (COLP) and Compliance Officer for Finance and Administration (COFA). He has also currently our Principal Trainer.

With experience in most areas of general practice, Tom now specialises in the fields of property law and probate, offering a vast amount of experience in those areas of law as well as dealing with residential and commercial conveyancing of all kinds of property.

Offering very much a bespoke service to his clients, Tom is the sort of solicitor who is always available when needed by mobile phone, by appointment at any of our offices and visiting clients at their homes. This is particularly appreciated by his probate clients.