Transact
Helen Wakeford has over 20 years of work experience in legal and company secretarial roles. Helen has served as the Head of Legal and Group Company Secretary at Transact since 2012, where they provide advice on corporate governance, commercial matters, and employment issues. Helen has also advised on corporate transactions such as share issues, acquisitions, and IPO. Prior to this, Helen worked as a Senior Company Solicitor at Unum from 1997 to 2011, where they provided advice on commercial, employee benefits, employment, and insurance issues. Helen also oversaw data protection and financial crime management functions. Helen started their career as a Trainee IFA at Hart Brown in 1994.
Helen Wakeford holds a Bachelor's degree in Law with Computing from the University of Wolverhampton. Helen also obtained a LPC qualification in Law from The College of Law.
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Transact
Transact is the leading independent investment wrap platform in the UK. Established in 2000, we have over £50.31 billion of funds under direction (as at June 2021) on behalf of over 6,400 advisers and 205,000 investor clients. Our service includes an online platform, owned and built by us, and dedicated regional adviser support to help bring clients' assets and investments together in a smarter, more tax efficient way. We offer access to a wide range of tax wrappers (including ISAs, pensions and life insurance investment bonds) and funds which advisers use to build client investment portfolios. Portfolio valuations, purchases and sales are all supported via Transact Online which is available 24/7. Transact's parent company, IntegraFin Holdings plc, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 index. We have been rated the number one investment platform in independent surveys conducted by CoreData and Investment Trends for 11 consecutive years (2010-2020). We once again topped major categories including Overall Satisfaction, Investment Capabilities and Adviser Support Services in the 2020 Investment Trends survey. We are proud to have been voted Platform of the Decade at the 2016 UK Platform Awards, and in 2017 we won eight awards including FT Adviser’s 5 Star Investment and Investment Innovation award. In 2018 our awards included Platforum's Best Adviser Platform over £10bn, as well as Professional Paraplanner's Best Platform and Best Overall Service - Existing Business awards. In 2019 we were awarded Professional Adviser's Best Platform for Advisers (AUA over £20bn), Professional Paraplanner's Best Platform award as well as FT Adviser’s 5 Star Investment Provider award. For 2020 we were awarded a Platinum Platform Rating by Adviser Asset (which we also received in 2019 and 2018) and the FT Adviser’s 5 Start Platform award.