Rob Jonckheer is a corporate and commercial solicitor of over 50 years standing. He has handled a wide variety of legal work for entrepreneurial companies, institutions and the not-for-profit sector. Rob is a graduate of Leicester University.
His early legal career was with Dunlop in Newcastle on Tyne and London as an in-house legal adviser handling the legal issues facing a global manufacturer and distributor. A move to private practice followed when he joined Clifford-Turner (now Clifford Chance) in the mid-1980s. Rob’s career then took him to Oxford to join Manches (now Pennington Manches), where he was one of the early partners building their technology-focused legal practice. He retired from Pennington Manches in 2010 and undertook some post-retirement in-house roles as legal adviser at The Science and Technology Facilities Council, Harwell (now UK Research and Innovation) and latterly as Director of Legal at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham. He was for many years a Trustee of the Kingwood Trust (now named Kingwood at Autism), a leading charity for supporting adults with autism and a governor and Chair of the Governors of Cokethorpe School, Witney
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