Ken Mildwaters is a lawyer whose career has centered on London-based practice in corporate law and petroleum and mineral law. He was admitted to the English bar in 1988, held partnerships at Theodore Goddard and Morgan Lewis & Bockius in London, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Dundee.
Background
Ken Mildwaters' documented education began in Australia, where he studied at the University of Western Australia in Perth. He also studied in the United Kingdom, at the University of Warwick and at the University of Dundee in Scotland, so his academic path connected Australian and British institutions.
The University of Western Australia was established in 1911 as the first university in Western Australia. The University of Warwick was founded in 1965 in England, and the University of Dundee was created by Royal Charter in 1967 as an independent university.
Education
He received the Bachelor of Jurisprudence and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Western Australia. The institution, founded in 1911 as the first university in Western Australia, provided the Australian legal education that preceded his later British professional qualifications.
He is also documented as a mathematics graduate of the University of Warwick. Founded in 1965, Warwick was one of the universities established in England during the expansion of higher education in the 1960s.
He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Dundee. Law teaching in Dundee dates to 1866, when law lectures began in the city, and the faculty of University College Dundee taught law from 1899. The independent University of Dundee was created in 1967, incorporating the former Queen's College, including its law school.
He was admitted to the bar in England in 1988. English bar admission qualifies a lawyer to practise as a barrister in England and Wales, a separate branch of the legal profession.
Career
Ken Mildwaters' legal career has been based in London. He became a partner at Theodore Goddard, a London law firm founded in 1902 by John Theodore Goddard, an English solicitor. By 1946 the firm had eight partners, and its growth over the following decades reflected the expansion of City of London practices.
He also worked through a joint venture of two law firms, Dewey Ballantine and Theodore Goddard, in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. In that role he founded and managed law practices in the region.
He was a partner at the London office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius, an international law firm founded in Philadelphia in 1873. He was also of counsel at Hadley & McCloy, and his documented practice focused on petroleum and mineral law and policy.
