Clifton Harrison appointed as EY Global Law Markets Leader, strengthening enterprise legal services

• Newly created role will help provide services from across the EY organization to help meet client needs
• Harrison brings two decades of proven experience working with chief financial officers and General Counsel 

The EY organization today announces the appointment of Clifton Harrison as EY Global Law Markets Leader, who will be responsible for building EY Law Enterprise Legal Services as the organization enters another year of growth.

Harrison moves into the newly created global role after three years as EY Law Business Development Leader for Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA). He first joined the EY organization in 2010, in a business development role within the UK and Ireland, and then rejoined in 2018 after stints at two global law practices. He will be based in London.

He brings more than two decades of experience collaborating with CFOs and General Counsel to address the many challenges they are facing.

In his new role, Harrison will help to bring EY clients a mix of services and solutions from across the organization in order to meet their most pressing legal and business needs. He will work with EY Law teams to connect the dots across EY enterprise legal services and empower clients with a wide range of comprehensive, integrated solutions from Legal Advisory Services, Legal Managed Services and Legal Function Consulting.

Cornelius Grossmann, EY Global Law Leader, says:

“Clifton has a superb track record in business development within Big 4 organizations and across the legal sector. He knows how to build and provide services to suit new markets and geographies and understands instinctively what clients want. He will help better serve EY clients by identifying and bringing together the various services they need, within EY Law teams and beyond, to tackle their many and varied business challenges. Clifton is a fantastic addition to the services across the globe and will play a pivotal role as we expand the teams and continue to build on the success we have achieved so far.”

Clifton Harrison, EY Global Law Markets Leader says:

“Through its multidisciplinary approach, EY Law services are gaining a foothold across many markets, helping organizations around the world to build their legal functions and equip themselves to tackle the unprecedented challenges we’re facing on a global scale. I’m incredibly proud to call EY home and to be able to step up to this new role as we shift gears and accelerate towards further growth.”         

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