GC Issue: Autumn 2016

In our latest insight report, the legal challenges of working and investing in emerging economies are explored, with a focus on the MINT countries – Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey.

Ben Heineman was GE’s Senior Vice President-General Counsel from 1987-2003 and then GE’s Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs from 2004 until his retirement at the end of 2005. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, he considers the challenges of conflict between a company’s global ethical policy and national laws.

In the latest in our Dinner with GC series, we consider some of the different calibrations of the general counsel role, in addition to the relationship between internal and external counsel – set against the backdrop of a city under pressure from the plummeting price of crude oil.

How do we flex our styles to meet changing and increasingly volatile circumstances?

As the growth of the major economies across Africa continues and the region as a whole becomes an increasingly attractive destination for foreign capital, GC speaks with in-house counsel on the ground to find out if the requisite talent to facilitate growth is available and how the domestic talent pool is developing.

GC Magazine was excited to host the second in its cutting-edge events series, Trailblazers, in Zurich on 8 June 2016. Once again, we were working with Tom Sager, the innovative former general counsel of DuPont.

INSEAD professor Herminia Ibarra’s insights on leading and developing your own role, as well as that of your team, are surprising in the fact they are rooted very much in the here and now. We outline her pragmatic thinking and ask general counsel to weigh in with their thoughts on Ibarra’s work.

Equal parts detective and lawyer, James Ratcliffe sits down with GC to explain how a passion for archaeology and a degree in law spawned a career hunting down plundered art from around the world.

With the economy in a state of flux and political reform firmly on the agenda, GC speaks with members of The Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: Italy, for their take on what’s on the horizon for Lo Stivale.

GC spoke to in-house counsel and a global leader in management consulting to learn how process management, measurement and metrics are becoming an increasingly important tool for GCs and how different businesses are putting them to use in order to evolve their service-delivery models.