Caroline Sheldon joined Cleveland & Co in 2017 as a legal intern and has spent the last 4 years working and developing her career and has recently qualified as lawyer! She assists with a range of legal matters concerning both financial services and commercial law matters and assists with the teams business development methods, as well as is a contributor to the firms newsletters and articles.
Caroline has experience advising on investment management, commercial, corporate and financial services matters. Her professional experiences as external in-house counsel has allowed her to develop a unique commercial awareness which has enabled her to effectively and promptly assist clients and build excellent relationships across all levels of our client organisations.
Caroline is a determined and highly motivated professional, having started out as an intern at Cleveland & Co, she has grown both her career and position within the company very quickly. She is now completing her training to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales, as well as studying for the CFA IMC Certification. When she’s not writing our newsletters or tirelessly preparing to qualify as a solicitor, you’ll find Caroline into her new “lockdown hobby” playing Nintendo DS Zelda or with her online team playing Overcooked on Playstation.
At Cleveland & Co, Caroline assists the team with all legal matters, including:
- Commercial contracts
- Company secretarial
- Corporate agreements
- Corporate governance
- CSAs
- Derivatives
- Financial Services Regulation
- GMRAs
- Introducer Agreements
- Investment management related agreements
- ISDAs
- Legal research
- Private Equity
- Repo Agreements
- Service Agreements
- Qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales
- LLB Law – The University of East Anglia
- Legal Practice Course – BPP University
- English
- Conversational German

Caroline Sheldon joined Cleveland & Co in 2017 as a legal intern and has spent the last 3 years working developing her career as a paralegal and now as a trainee associate. She assists with a range of legal matters concerning both financial services and commercial law matters and assists with the teams business development methods, as well as is a contributor to the firms newsletters and articles .
Caroline has 3 years’ experience advising on investment management, commercial, corporate and financial services matters. Her professional experiences as external in-house counsel has allowed her to develop a unique commercial awareness which has enabled her to effectively and promptly assist clients and build excellent relationships across all levels of our client organisations.
Caroline is a determined and highly motivated professional, having started out as an intern at Cleveland & Co, she has grown both her career and position within the company very quickly. She is now completing her training to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales, as well as studying for the CFA IMC Certification. When she’s not writing our newsletters or tirelessly preparing to qualify as a solicitor, you’ll find Caroline into her new “lockdown hobby” playing Nintendo DS Zelda or with her online team playing Overcooked on Playstation.
At Cleveland & Co, Caroline assists the team with all legal matters, including:
- Commercial contracts
- Company secretarial
- Corporate agreements
- Corporate governance
- CSAs
- Financial Services Regulation
- GMRAs
- Investment management related agreements
- ISDAs
- Legal research
- Private Equity
- Real Estate
- Service Agreements
- LLB Law – The University of East Anglia
- Legal Practice Course – BPP University
- English
- Conversational German