About us

Bloomworks Legal provides legal consultancy services for purpose-led organisations across a range of sectors, from growing tech companies to visionary cultural institutions. With a focus on intellectual property, commercial, and technology law, our services nurture creativity, growth and innovation.

We share our clients’ passion for big goals, and our mission is to provide pragmatic, actionable legal solutions to make those goals a reality.

Why work with us?

We think differently

For us, the law is about more than just compliance. We empower our clients to use legal strategy to deliver business objectives, mitigate risk, generate value and do the right thing.

We offer the best of all worlds

We combine years of law firm experience (think: deep legal expertise, independence and bespoke client service) with the dynamic, responsive, risk-informed approach of an in-house legal advisor. All at cost-effective rates, as and when you need support.

We apply broad cross-sector insights

We have a wealth of experience across digital health, femtech, biotech, pharmaceuticals, edtech, SaaS and cultural innovation, bringing diverse ideas together to create new legal solutions.

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Emma Haywood

Director and Principal Consultant

Emma is a solicitor qualified in England and Wales (SRA number 582098).

She brings a unique perspective and variety of skills to her consulting practice, based on over a decade of experience in the legal industry.

Emma spent 8 years as a trusted legal advisor to corporates, start-ups, scale-ups, government departments and charities at a Magic Circle law firm in London. She then moved to a senior in-house legal role, supporting the development of the legal function of a disruptive technology company through an intensive growth phase and public listing.

Her experience is complemented by secondments to a FTSE 100 pharmaceutical company and the British Museum, and by her position as a Board Trustee of the National Archives Trust.

Emma is known and valued for her creative problem-solving and her ability to earn the trust of stakeholders at all levels, from board-level leadership to operational colleagues. She is committed to innovation and has been recognised for her work as a legal sector changemaker (“Women Who Will” Report 2022 and “The O List” 2023/24) and as an active mentor to aspiring lawyers from underrepresented backgrounds (Highly Commended, Mentor of the Year, Women & Diversity in Law Awards 2023).

Alongside her legal work, Emma is a speaker, a writer, a vocal champion of alternative working patterns for lawyers via her popular monthly newsletter The 4 Day Lawyer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a charity trustee.