Aleen Gulvanessian joined legacy firm Eversheds in 1981. She is now a corporate partner in the London office, heads the firm’s in-house lawyers team, and is currently advising cheesemaker Dairy Crest on its £975 million sale to Canadian dairy company Saputo.

Why did you become a lawyer? I wasn’t sufficiently interested in my A-level subjects to study those, so my sister suggested I read law. I didn’t intend to become a lawyer but then I got hooked.