Guy Beringer has a portfolio of SME and third sector board appointments, ranging from the development of innovative medical devices to music in the workplace and the promotion of the rule of law. He is Chair of SageTech Medical, BAILII, the Bingham Centre Appeal Board, Sleeklight Ltd, Temple Music Foundation,  and City Music Services, and serves as a Director of LegalUK and the National Pro Bono Centre. He is also a Campaign Council Member for the Integrated Education Foundation and a Trustee of BIICL and the Dracaena Centre.

In his first career, Guy was a corporate lawyer and became Senior Partner of Allen & Overy (now A&O Shearman) the global law firm (2000 – 2008). He was appointed Queen’s Counsel (Honoris Causa) in 2006 for his contributions to pro bono and legal services. In 2009, he became Chair of UK Export Finance, the UK’s export credit agency, and in 2016 was awarded a CBE for services to export finance and pro bono work in the legal sector.

In 2012, he played a key role in transforming the College of Law into The Legal Education Foundation, where he served as Chair until 2021. In 2012 he also co-founded BCKR, an organisation that encouraged lawyers to take on board roles beyond legal practice. In 2016 he was a founding Director of SageTech Medical that has developed innovative gas capture technology for human and veterinary use.  In 2018 he was a founding Director of LegalUK which examines and promotes the economic value of English law.  Guy also chaired the Taskforce on Business Ethics and the Legal Profession, which produced its report with the Institute of Business Ethics in 2025.

His current interests lie in the role legal systems play in enabling individual fulfilment and collective economic prosperity. He is working on projects to highlight the value of English law as a global commercial platform.

He is the author of Tales from Port Navas Creek, a trilogy of illustrated children’s books inspired by his grandchildren and the Cornish woodland where the stories are set. The books follow seven young woodland creatures as they take on the wicked Crow dynasty — weaving together themes of justice, courage, and imagination, with more than a few courtroom twists. The books are beautifully illustrated by his wife, Margaret Beringer.

Outside his professional work, Guy has played rugby for Cambridge where he won two blues, London Irish where he played in the 1985 Cup Final and Ulster where he played against the 1979 All Blacks. He has sung Papageno on stage in an amateur production of Mozart’s Magic Flute at Glyndebourne and now enjoys sport and music from a safe distance. He is married to Margaret, an artist and they have three daughters and seven grandchildren. They divide their time between London, Cornwall and North Wales.