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Crispin Passmore is Co-founder and Chair of Passmore & Oliver Partners, a regulatory strategy consultancy advising investors, law firms, regulators and legal technology businesses in the UK, the US and internationally. He began his career running a not-for-profit law firm and was later Policy Director in the legal aid system in England and Wales. As part of the founding team at the Legal Services Board, and then as Executive Director of the Solicitors Regulation Authority, he designed and implemented the alternative business structure regime that opened law firms in England and Wales to outside ownership, and led a ground-up rewrite of the SRA’s rulebook. He advised the Arizona Supreme Court on the first US programme to allow non-lawyer ownership of law firms, structured the first US management services organisation transaction, and has advised on many of those since, all around the world. He is regularly quoted in the Financial Times, Bloomberg Law and Law360.