{"id":4496,"date":"2019-07-05T14:21:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T14:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.events.multisite.legal500.com\/?post_type=event_report&p=4496"},"modified":"2020-01-22T14:37:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T14:37:42","slug":"gc-summit-russia","status":"publish","type":"event_report","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/report\/gc-summit-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"GC Summit Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

GC Magazine and The Legal 500<\/em> partnered with KPMG, Reed Smith, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and Lidings to host the inaugural GC Summit: Russia in Moscow on 11 April 2019.<\/p>\n

In-house counsel around the world often speak of similar challenges: time-resource scarcity, effectively managing a team, and maintaining relationships with key business stakeholders. But some sectors and some jurisdictions present unique sets of challenges \u2013 particularly when political considerations often brush up against business ones.<\/p>\n

This holds true for Russia \u2013 a large economy with a well developed in-house community \u2013 and as The Legal 500 convened a summit of the region\u2019s top legal minds, these challenges and opportunities were fleshed out in full by a combination of three in-depth panel discussions, an on-stage interview with a top general counsel, and collegial networking in Moscow\u2019s Metropol Hotel.<\/p>\n

The first of the event\u2019s panel discussions was hosted by Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, and saw participants discuss the state of M&A in Russia, with a focus on the increasing tendency to use Russian law to govern M&A transactions, current M&A structures, and an overview of current trends in the M&A world. Moderated by Anton Sitnikov, partner and head of corporate\/M&A at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, the participants grappled with the driving forces behind the changing M & A landscape in Russia and how in-house counsel can respond.<\/p>\n

Reed Smith and associate Yuri Presniakov hosted the second panel: an interactive case study touching on aspects of sanctions, anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance. The moderator and panellists walked the audience through a practical examination of a hypothetical business situation, examining the challenges involved and offering suggestions as to the advice in-house counsel should offer their businesses in such volatile cases.<\/p>\n

The third of the day\u2019s panel discussions took the form of a deep-dive into issues of GDPR and data protection from KPMG\u2019s specialist data protection team, including moderator and manager of cybersecurity at KPMG, Kristina Borovikova, as well as two top in-house counsel. Continuing the summit\u2019s focus on practicality, the moderator and panellists brought a wealth of experience in the area of data protection and offered the audience anecdotes and best practice tips that should be considered when in-house teams are grappling with their organization\u2019s privacy challenges.<\/p>\n

Rounding off the day\u2019s events was a one-on-one discussion with long-time, battle-tested general counsel Alexey Zavalev, presently serving as vice president and general counsel of Ford Sollers. Interviewed on-stage by Lidings managing partner Andrey Zelenin, Zavalev detailed his senior role at Ford Sollers, how the general counsel can take the next step into board-level management, how to interface with the business, and the potential for artificial intelligence to disrupt the legal and business worlds.<\/p>\n

The Legal 500 would like to thank all those who attended as well as our partners for this event: KPMG, Lidings, Reed Smith and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. A special thanks goes to the expert moderators and panellists, whose contributions and insights made the event a valuable experience for all attendees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4498,"template":"","class_list":["post-4496","event_report","type-event_report","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_report\/4496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_report"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event_report"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_report\/4496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}