Craig Conte > Deloitte Legal > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Craig Conte
Work Department
NSE Tax & Legal, Deloitte Legal, Legal Management Consulting (LMC & Legal Managed Services (LMS)
Position
Lead Partner for Legal Operate.
Work undertaken:
- Created the shared service centres in India, Poland, Guatemala and Brazil for Capgemini Legal and & Commercial functions
- Created the outsourced centres of excellence in Brazil and India for global consumer goods company
- Created new contracting target operating model for global coffee and retail company
- Implemented CLM technology for numerous entities, including those in consumer goods, healthcare & finance
- Created post-award contract & commercial functions for a number entities – including in finance and consumer goods – across North America & Europe
Career
Craig is the Partner responsible for Deloitte’s Contracts Legal Management Consulting team and has been working in contracting, contract management and tech enablement for over 20 years. He is a qualified US lawyer who has practiced outsourcing and IT transactional and outsourcing law.
Prior to joining Deloitte, Craig was first a practicing lawyer in New York, and then took the role as head lawyer for Capgemini’s BPO practice. From there he built Capgemini global capabilities for legal and commercial internal and then customer support. Most recently he built our Elevate’s Contract Consulting capabilities. Craigs clients include a global medical device company, a oil and gas company and a global alcoholic beverage company.
Craig is also on the Global Advisory Board for World Commerce & Contracting and regularly speaks on industry innovations in contract and commercial management.
Languages
English
Memberships
- World Commerce & Contracting: Global Advisory Board
- Member of New York & Connecticut Bars
Education
- Rutgers College, Philosophy BA, Honours
- St. John’s University School of Law, Dean’s List
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
Benefitting from a global reach of 85 territories and over 400,000 employees, Deloitte Legal acts on a range of multi-jurisdictional matters generated by a client list of numerous leading names. Equipped with regulatory and technological expertise – including blockchain, AI and platform-based business models – the team have been active on advertising, sponsorship and marketing partnerships, outsourcing and distribution arrangements, and customer agreements with logistics providers. Andrew Joint leads the team and focuses on the tech contracting and advisory work, whilst also spearheading Deloitte’s artificial intelligence, robotic process automation and cloud technologies work. Fellow co-head Calum Murray has a similar tech background, but is also singled out for his extensive activity in the retail and consumer sector, alongside a substantial range of media and entertainment mandates. Craig Conte also comes recommended, alongside Peggie Pauwels, who joined the group from a leading role at Visa in April 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Employment > Immigration
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Employment > Employee share schemes
Firm Rankings
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
- Industry focus > TMT
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Transport > Travel
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer