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| GE
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Managing director, general counsel | KKR & Co
Managing director, head of legal (Europe) | CPP Investments
GC | Vitruvian Partners
| Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines
Associate general counsel and Japan legal director | Amazon
Angela is a senior international lawyer with more than 28 years’ experience at top global law firms and as general counsel for leading global corporations headquartered in the United States....
Head of supply chain management legal for Asia Pacific | BNP Paribas
Senior vice president legal, risk and compliance | Suntory Beverage & Food APAC
Senior Legal director, Asia Pacific | Palo Alto Networks
General counsel | Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical
Head of legal and compliance Asia Pacific | Allianz Partners
Lega manager key contracts – CAS region | American Tower Corporation
Legal director Greece and Switzerland | AbbVie
In-house legal counsel | Fresenius Sanderson
Vicepresidente asuntos jurídicos | Banco Nacional de Bolivia
Legal director | Huawei Technologies
Senior legal counsel LNG West and head of legal | Shell
Business manager | Indatta (Grupo Sofía)
Deputy general counsel | JERA NEX
Vice president and associate general counsel | Amazon Japan
| Volkswagen Financial Services
| Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN)
Legal manager | Pacífico EPS
Legal manager | Itaú
Legal and regulatory compliance manager | Inchcape Perú
Legal director | GRUPO IBARCENA
General counsel | COFIDE
Legal and regulatory manager | Celepsa
Manager of the legal and the general secretariat division | Banco GNB Perú
Senior vice president, head of legal | Lazada Thailand
Chief legal director | Grupo Vázquez
Executive legal director, Latin America | Saint-Gobain
General counsel | LOG Commercial Properties
Legal director, Latin America | IBM
Executive general counsel, Latin America | GE Aerospace
Managing director, legal and compliance | CPP Investments
Executive vice president of legal, tax, people, and compliance | BRF
Vice president, legal and compliance | Ambev
General counsel | Artic Securities
General counsel | Borregaard
Head of legal and General counsel | Eksfin - Export Finance Norway
SVP Head of group legal | Telenor ASA
Head of legal | Tietoevry Industry
VP and General counsel | Jordanes Group
General Counsel - Chief Legal and Compliance Officer | Torvald Klaveness
Chief legal officer | Allente Nordic
General counsel & Local head of financial crime prevention | Handelsbanken Norway
EVP legal | Entra Eiendom AS
Head of legal and financing | Ferd AS
Head of legal Telenor Norge AS & VP group legal Telenor ASA | Telenor
General counsel Nordics | Siemens Energy
Head of legal section | Norwegian Defence Estates Agency NDEA (Forsvarsbygg)
Head of legal | Alfred Berg
Chief Legal Officer | GEICO
Senior Partner and Chief Legal Officer | McKinsey & Company
Executive Vice President, Business Affairs & Chief Legal Officer | BSE Global
Jeff Gewirtz is the Executive Vice President, Business Affairs and Chief Legal Officer of BSE (BSE), a role he also held from 2010 through 2020. In 2021 he served as...
General Counsel and Secretary | The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Bridget Smith is the General Counsel & Secretary for The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Prior to her role s General Counsel, she was Senior Counsel...
Chief legal officer | KTM
Group head of legal | Greiner AG
Head of legal (Austria and Switzerland) | ALD Automotive Fuhrparkmanagement und Leasing GmbH
Senior Legal Counsel & Internal Group DPO | IXOPAY
General counsel | GATX Rail Europe
General counsel | Porsche Holding
Head of Legal Department | Austrian Power Grid
General counsel (Head of legal, compliance and insurance) | Kwizda Holding GmbH
Head of legal | REEEP
Group general counsel | Salling Group
General counsel | Øresundsbro Konsortiet
Vice president and general counsel | Hempel
General counsel | DFDS
General counsel | Banking Circle
General Counsel Africa | Sanofi
Chief Compliance Officer | Greenlight Group
General counsel | Gestron Asset Management
General counsel and vice president EMEA | Gates Corporation
Head of legal and governance | CFL Multimodal
Head of legal | CERATIZIT
Chief Compliance Officer | Airbnb
General counsel | ING
Global Head of Legal & Corporate Secretary | Flow Traders
Head of Legal & Company Secretary | Dynamic Credit
General counsel | Royal FloraHolland
Head of legal business, head of corporate and financial law | Philips
Group general counsel | United Group B.V.
Head of Legal Franchise | Inter IKEA Systems
Senior Director - Global Antitrust, AI & EU Affairs | Uber
Head of legal Mexico | Tupperware Brands México
Senior counsel and chief compliance officer | IBM
Senior counsel & legal lead | Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Head of legal | Gaya Sinergia Constructiva
Director of legal services | Diageo
General counsel | CEMEX
Head of legal North LAM | Alstom
Legal counsell | Biess Ecuador
Execuive vice president legal and compliance | Karl Fazer
Senior vice president and general counsel | SRV
Legal executive | Equites Property Fund
Legal and governance manager | Mining Qualifications Authority ZA
Company secretary and corporate legal counsel | Business Partners
Senior manager legal, general legal counsel | Sasol
Head of legal | Mango
Head of international branches legal department | CaixaBank
General counsel | Aena
General counsel | Abertis Infraestructuras
Deputy General Manager | Stanbic IBTC
Senior legal officer/ Team Lead | Access Bank
Head, Legal (Chief Legal Officer) | CalBank
Company Secretary | Standard Chartered Bank
Manager, Legal | Ghana National Petroleum Corporation
Legal counsel | Kao Germany GmbH
Group general counsel, head of legal and governance Germany and international | Kaufland
General Counsel | Danone
Head of legal affairs | Deutsche Telekom
General counsel | Yunex
General counsel | Scout24
Head of legal (vice president) | Jack Wolfskin Ausrüstung für Draussen
Legal head CANDEAN | Novartis
General counsel | Grupo Financiero G&T Continental
Executive vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary | BLADEX (Banco Latinoamericano De Comercio Exterior)
Legal director Latam | JCDecaux
General counsel | INCAE Business School
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | Wingstop
Chief legal officer and corporate secretary | The Container Store
General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer | Sendero Wealth Management
VP of Land & General Counsel | Santo Petroleum
Nicole Singer is the Vice President of Land and General Counsel of Santo Petroleum and its affiliated companies. Santo is a privately-owned independent minerals, royalties, exploration and production company with...
Partner and General Counsel | Quantum Capital
Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary | Plains All American Pipeline
Senior Vice President and General Counsel | Kimberly-Clark
General counsel and chief compliance officer | Gauge Capital
Chief legal officer | Children's Health Fund
Chief legal & Administrative officer | CBRE
Chief Legal Officer | Baker Hughes
General counsel and chief compliance officer | H.I.G. Capital
Head of Legal, Wealth Americas Banking & Lending; Director, Associate General Counsel | Citigroup
Nilo Barredo is the Head of Legal for Citi Wealth’s Banking and Lending businesses in the Americas. In this role, Nilo supports Wealth’s diverse banking and lending products in North...
General Counsel Latin America & Caribbean | Marsh Mclennan
Jorge serves as the General Counsel for Marsh McLennan in the Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) region. In this role, he is responsible for ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory...
General Counsel, Americas | Amadeus
General counsel | Insigneo Financial Group
General counsel | Huimei Capital
Directeur des affaires juridiques holding Total SA | Total Exploration & Production
Group VP Legal - Litigation& Disputes Resolution | Thales
Group general counsel | Sodexo
Directeur général juridique, conformité | Nestlé France
Group general counsel | LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
General Manager, Legal Affairs & Audit | LACTALIS
Executive vice president, legal affairs and internal audit | Bureau Veritas Group
Group general counsel | BNP Paribas
Head of legal | Bouygues Bâtiment International
General Counsel M&A and Finance | Wendel
General counsel | L'Oréal
Head of legal and corporate affairs | ING Bank Romania
Legal director | E.ON
Chief legal counsel | Hospital Auxilio Mutuo
General counsel | MedPharm Services
Senior vice president, chief legal officer, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer | Ingredion Incorporated
Senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | USG
Executive vice president, general counsel | Hilton
First senior vice president, corporate secretary, general counsel | Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation
General counsel and company secretary | Prefchem
Director, legal counsel | BNP Paribas
General counsel | Siemens
Capital markets counsel | Wells Fargo Bank
General counsel | Ontex
General counsel, Latin America | McDonald's
Head of legal, Europe and LATAM | Jinko Power Technology
Corporate legal manager | GAM Maquinaria
Regional general counsel, Africa and Middle East | Standard Chartered
Chief Legal Officer and FDI Policy Adviser | Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority (KDIPA)
General counsel | INDEVCO Group
Global Lead Counsel Digital | ABB
Group general counsel | Essar Group
Senior vice president, legal | Reliance Industries
Latam north legal director | PPG
Legal manager | L’Oréal México
Legal manager Latam | L’Oréal América Latina
Regional legal counsel - Latam | Hubbell
Corporate and labor affairs legal director | General Motors Mexico
Director and counsel | American Express Company México
Senior legal counsel | Altán Redes
Chief legal officer | Themis Portfolio Management
General counsel | TAPCLAP
Senior legal advisor | Piraeus Bank
Group general counsel | Piraeus Bank
Senior legal counsel | OSM Thome
General counsel | Olympia Group
General manager of group legal services | National Bank of Greece
General counsel | Motor Oil Hellas
General counsel | Howden Hellas
Head of legal division, counsel to the board | Eurobank
Head of legal and compliance, Greece | Deutsche Bank
General counsel | Celestyal Cruises
Chief legal officer | Atlantic Insurance
Director of legal affairs and corporate governance, secretary to the board of directors | Athens International Airport
Head of legal and compliance, board of directors' secretary | Ancoria Insurance Public
Chief legal and compliance officer | Allianz
Legal director, Greece and the Nordics | AbbVie
Latam legal affairs manager | TERUMO Blood and Cell Technologies
In-house counsel and business development manager | Scanntech
Abogada principal y coordinadora dirección de asuntos legales de tesorería y pasivos | CAF – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe
Cecilia’s professional practice has focused on corporate, contractual, banking, and financial markets areas. She has advised various national, international, and multilateral companies on matters related to the capital markets, including...
Spanish South America regional counsel | IBM
General counsel, director of legal affairs | Grupo Lamosa
Head of legal/ chief of staff | Gaya Sinergia Constructiva
General counsel | CEMEX
Executive director, legal | Banco JP Morgan
Director of Corporate Affairs and Major Transactions | Wind Tre
Head of legal and corporate governance | Ferrero Italia
VP and general counsel | Baker Hughes
Group general counsel | Azimut Benetti
Legal, regulatory and compliance director | Axpo Italia
Group general counsel | Assicurazioni Generali
Vice president, legal and governmental affairs | AES Dominicana
| London Stock Exchange Group
| Legal & General Group
| Sage Group
Legal and compliance director, Colombia, Central America and the Caribbean | SGS Colombia
Legal director and general counsel | Ocensa - Oleoducto Central
Head of legal Colombia and Ecuador | Hitachi Energy Colombia
Advisor legal vicepresidency | Grupo Energía Bogotá
Chief legal officer | Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores
General secretary and legal director | Caracol Primera Cadena Radial Colombiana
Legal business partner Latam and acting lead compliance manager Latam | Betsson Group
Senior general counsel | Automotores Toyota Colombia
Asesor legal | Sinchi Wayra
Asesor legal nacional | Plan Internacional
Gerente nacional del area legal | Inmobiliaria Kantutani
Director legal | Huawei Technologies (Bolivia)
Responsable asuntos corporativos | Grupo Mamut
Gerente legal | BBVA Previsión
Vicepresidente asuntos jurídicos | Banco Nacional de Bolivia
Chief legal officer | Sungrow
General counsel Chile and Latam | Sodexo
General counsel and corporate secretary | Marimaca
Head of legal - Latam | Mainstrean Renewable Power
Deputy general counsel – global legal, tech and innovation | JERA
Vice president and associate general counsel | Amazon Japan
Chief Legal, Regulatory, and Corporate Governance Officer | Safaricom Ethiopia
Head of legal and compliance BAT East and Southern Africa | British American Tobacco
Senior manager, legal counsel Africa | The Coca Cola Company (Coca-Cola Central East and West Africa)
Chief legal and governance officer, Africa | Prudential Africa
Wambui is a seasoned commercial legal adviser with over 25 years of experience, offering strategic and creative counsel across legal, compliance, risk, governance, commercial, and corporate advisory roles. Wambui has...
Company Secretary and general counsel | Development Bank of Rwanda
Gloria aims to serve, grow her potential and empower others. She is a business and corporate lawyer and a certified John Maxwell Leadership team coach. With a combined professional experience...
General counsel and group company secretary | BK Group
Emmanuel Nkusi Batanage is the general counsel and group company secretary of BK Group. Prior to this role, he was the company secretary and head of corporate affairs at Bank...
Chief legal officer, company secretary | dfcu Bank
Legal director | Equity Bank Kenya
Head of legal | Shell Exploration and Production Tanzania
Angela Caramaschi a dual qualified lawyer, a solicitor in England and Wales and an advocate of the High Court of Tanzania. She has over 12 years of international experience advising...
Head of legal | Energy Utility Corporation (EUCL)
| John Hay Management Corporation
| EdgePoint Towers
| Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines
Group general counsel, chief compliance officer and company secretary | Fidelidade
Head of legal and compliance | Corticeira Amorim
Head of legal, compliance (DPO and AML) and corporate affairs | Pignus - Crédito Económico Popular
Head of legal | Lazada Group
Head of legal | REEEP (Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership)
General counsel | KTM
Senior legal counsel | IXOPAY
Regional counsel europe | GATX Rail Europe
Chief legal officer | DO & CO Restaurants & Catering
Head of legal affairs, authorised officer | Austrian Power Grid
Head of legal Austria and Switzerland | ALD Automotive Fuhrparkmanagement und Leasing
Business unit general counsel, Home Care Americas | Unilever
Legal director for South America | Schneider Electric
Vice president, legal and governance, and general counsel | Nexa Resources
Legal director, Latin America | IBM
Executive general counsel, Latin America | General Electric Aerospace
General counsel | Cielo
Chief legal, ethics and compliance officer | Ambev
General counsel | AIG Seguros Brasil
General counsel | Enterprise Ireland
Vice president, corporate secretary and general counsel EMEA | Eaton
Head of legal | Diageo Ireland
Head of EMEA legal | Asana
Legal counsel | Samsung Electronics
Legal counsel | Novartis
Legal expert | Ege Yeni Nesil Enerji
Senior legal manager | Demirören Medya
General counsel | idacapital
Head of legal department | Hyundai Assan
Region head of legal | Ferrero
Head of legal | Deutsche Bank
Head of legal and compliance | Danone
Head of legal and compliance | Borusan Pipe
Head of legal, mediator | Anex Tourism Group
Corporate legal and compliance manager | Aksigorta
President of legal affairs | Anadolu Grubu
Years in-house: 26 Mr. Mustafa Yelligedik graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 1994 and started his career in Efes Beverage Group as a lawyer in 1997. Throughout his...
Legal affairs director | PERU LNG
Gerente legal de cumplimiento y permisos | Marcobre
General counsel | Celepsa
Manager of the legal and the general secretariat division | Banco GNB Perú
Group chief legal and compliance officer | Unifeeder
Group general counsel | STARK Group
Group general counsel | Salling Group
General counsel | Øresundsbro Konsortiet
Vice president, general counsel | Hempel
General counsel | DFDS
Head of legal, Nordics and UK | Banking Circle
Chief legal officer | Web3 Foundation
General counsel | Tillotts Pharma
General counsel | Roche
Executive vice president and group general counsel | Nestlé
Senior vice president and chief counsel | Mondelēz International
Group general counsel | Landis + Gyr
Group general counsel | Implenia
General counsel EMEA | Honeywell Technology Solutions
General counsel and company secretary | Citigroup
Head of legal and compliance | Banque Cramer
Secretary general board affairs and chief governance officer, member of the group executive committee | Audemars Piguet
Head of legal Mexico | Tupperware Brands México
Legal counsel LATAM | Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Head of legal | Gaya Sinergia Constructiva
Vice president legal and general counsel, LATAM | Essity
Director of legal services | Diageo
General counsel, head of government affairs Mexico, global compliance coordinator and data privacy officer Latam | DHL Supply Chain
General counsel | CEMEX
General counsel and vice president, EMEA | Gates Industrial Europe
Head of legal and governance | CFL Multimodal
Director of legal affairs | CERATIZIT
Director, legal, Middle East and Africa | Worley
Group head of legal and regulatory compliance | takealot.com
Legal and governance manager | Mining Qualifications Authority
Head of legal | Discovery Bank
Genevieve Mojapelo-Molefe is a seasoned and multi-award-winning information and communications technology attorney with over 12 years of post-admission legal experience. She currently serves as the head of legal at Discovery...
General counsel | Sixty West
Vice president, legal and general counsel | Porsche Cars North America
Senior vice president, deputy general counsel, chief compliance officer | Endeavor
Senior vice president, chief legal officer and secretary | Asbury Automotive Group
George A. Villasana is a seasoned Fortune 500 C-Suite executive with a strong strategic orientation. He possesses nearly 30 years of experience leading entrepreneurial growth and managing large public companies...
Senior manager, transactional legal, corporate banking and e-business | Stanbic Bank
Executive vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary - AMLCA | BLADEX (Banco Latinoamericano De Comercio Exterior)
Jorge Luis Real serves as executive vice president – chief legal officer and corporate secretary. He joined Bladex as vice president, head of legal risk in 2014, was appointed secretary...
Corporate general counsel and corporate governance director | Corporación Multi Inversiones
Legal head CANDEAN | Novartis
Directora juridica Latam | JCDecaux
Legal director | INCAE Business School
Angela is the current legal director of INCAE business school, a position she has held since 2019. Prior to that, from 2013 up until 2019 she was the regional director...
Asesor legal | BancoGty Continental
General counsel | Cemex
General counsel and chief compliance officer | H.I.G. Capital
General counsel, Americas | Amadeus
Executive vice president, general counsel, business and legal affairs | Formerly NBC Telemundo Enterprises
Legal counsel | Volvo
Group general counsel | Vendanta Group
Spotlight on… Dr. Sanjeev Gemawat is a general counsel and corporate secretary; a thought leader and strategist with a business orientation. He is a chartered secretary from India and the...
Deputy CEO - head of legal and administrative | BRD - Groupe Societe Generale
Head of legal and corporate affairs | ING Bank Romania
Legal and compliance director | E.ON Romania
Directrice juridique | STMicroelectronics
Group general counsel | Sodexo
General corporate secretary and secretary of the board | Rexel
Directeur général juridique, conformité | Nestlé France
Group general counsel | LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
Group general counsel | GSE Group
Group general counsel | Groupe Casino
Head of legal | Fédération des Promoteurs Immobiliers de France FPI
General counsel, Europe and global head of legal watch, regulatory and ESG | Crédit Agricole CIB
Executive vice president, legal affairs and internal audit | Bureau Veritas Group
General counsel | Bouygues Bâtiment International
Group general counsel | BNP Paribas
General counsel | MedPharm Services
Vice president, general counsel | LUMA Energy
General counsel | Hospital Español Auxilio Mutuo
Senior vice president, chief legal officer, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer | Ingredion Incorporated
General counsel US | McDonald's
Corporate counsel and company secretary | Vencorex France
General counsel | SAP
General counsel, Latin America | McDonald's
Head of legal, Europe and LATAM | Jinko Power Technology
Vice president, legal international | Hologic Swiss Group
General counsel | Grupo Iberconsa
Legal department manager | GAM
Legal director | Andros
Senior legal counsel | Qantas
Head of legal - property | Harvey Norman
Senior legal counsel | Dexus
Senior legal counsel | Bankwest
Senior legal counsel | ALS
Legal director, labour and employment Latam | Uber
Legal counsel – upstream global commercial and exploration | Shell
Director and counsel | American Express
Head of legal and corporate affairs | FEMSA Salud
Capital markets senior legal manager | BBVA Mexico
Corporate, labour and litigation legal affairs director | General Motors de México
Regional general counsel, Africa and Middle East | Standard Chartered
General counsel and FDI policy advisor | Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority (KDIPA)
General counsel | Indevco Group
Global lead counsel | ABB
| GenScript Biotech Corporation
| Generali Life (Hong Kong)
| China Resources Capital Management
| China Orient Asset Management (International) Holdings
| Thai Beverage
| PwC Mekong Office of the General Counsel
| Jardine Cycle Carriage
| Azalea Investment Management
| CBRE Investment Management
| Advance Intelligence Group
Chief legal officer | Themis Portfolio Management
Group general counsel | Piraeus Bank
Senior legal advisor | Piraeus Bank
Senior legal counsel | OSM THOME
General counsel | Olympia Group of Companies
Chief legal counsel | NCR Corporation
General manager of legal services | National Bank of Greece
General counsel | Motor Oil Hellas
Head of legal division, counsel to the board | Eurobank
Director, head of legal and compliance Greece | Deutsche Bank
Chief internal legal advisor | Atlantic Insurance
Director of legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors | Athens International Airport
Legal director Greece and Switzerland | AbbVie Pharmaceuticals
Country leader, general counsel | 3M
Latam legal affairs manager | TERUMO Blood and Cell Technologies
In-house counsel and business development manager | Scanntech
General counsel | ItalGas
Head of legal and corporate governance | Ferrero Italia
VP and general counsel | Baker Hughes
Group general counsel | Azimut Benetti
Legal, regulatory and compliance director | Axpo Italia
Group general counsel | Assicurazioni Generali
Head of legal and corporate affairs | Arvedi Acciai Speciali Terni
Spanish South America regional counsel | IBM
Legal manager and regional general counsel | Solistica
General counsel, director of legal affairs | Grupo Lamosa
Head of legal | Gaya Sinergia Constructiva
General counsel | Engen Capital
General counsel | CEMEX
Legal director | Banco JP Morgan
Group legal director | Prudential
Group general counsel | Octopus Energy
General counsel and company secretary | Legal & General
General counsel and company secretary | Currys
Group general counsel | BAE Systems
Vice president of legal and government affairs | The AES Corporation
Legal and compliance director, Colombia and Central America | SGS Colombia
Head of legal | Hitachi Energy Colombia
Senior advisor, legal vice president | Grupo Energía Bogotá
Chief legal officer | Grupo Aval
General secretary and legal director | Caracol Primera Cadena Radial Colombiana
Legal business partner | Betsson Latam Services
Having worked for different companies in highly regulated industries, Jorge Andrés Torres, Betsson Group’s legal business partner for Latin America, has been praised for his skilful handling of complex legal...
Senior general counsel | Automotores Toyota Colombia
Legal and contracts specialist | Sungrow Power Supply
General counsel | Grupo Massai
Senior legal and compliance manager, LATAM | Mainstrean Renewable Power
Asesor legal superior | Ingenio Azucarero Guabirá
Superintendente legal | Sinchi Wayra
Legal counsel | Nacional Seguros Vida y Salud
Gerente legal | Inmobiliaria Kantutani
Legal director | Huawei Technologies (Bolivia)
Vicepresidente asuntos jurídicos | Banco Nacional de Bolivia
Asesor legal nacional | Plan Internacional
Gerente legal | BBVA Previsión
Responsable asuntos corporativos | Grupo Mamut
Líder de talento humano y administración | FONPLATA, Banco de Desarrollo
With more than 18 years of experience in the practice of law, Angel has dedicated his career to specialising in administrative legal analysis to enhance the functioning of organisations. Angel’s...
Head of legal and corporate affairs | Terpel Peru
Legal affairs director | PERU LNG
Manager of the legal and the general secretariat division | Banco GNB Perú
Focus on: The career of Miguel Angel Raygada Castillo Miguel Angel Raygada Castillo graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and is a recognised expert in financial regulation, legal...
Head, group litigation and regional business | RHB Bank
General counsel and company secretary | Prefchem
General counsel | Bumi Armada
Senior counsel | TDK
Deputy general counsel, general manager, legal operations unit, legal group | JERA
First senior vice president- general counsel and corporate secretary | Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation
Assistant vice president and head, issuer regulation division | Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE)
Chief legal consultant | Megaworld Corporation
General counsel - Philippines | Jollibee Foods Corporation
Vice president, head of legal services and data privacy officer | Cignal TV
Senior vice president – legal | ACEN Corporation
In-house legal counsel | MC SONAE
Head of litigation | Galp
Head of legal | doValue Portugal
Head of legal and compliance | Corticeira Amorim
Regional head of legal and compliance | Allianz Partners
Head of Legal | Lazada Thailand
| Genmab
| Flying Tiger Copenhagen
| Flügger group
| Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
| Copenhagen Business School
| Wienerberger
| Siemens Large Drives
| CA Immobilien Anlagen
| Amgen
| Allianz Elementar Versicherungs- Aktiengesellschaft
Chief counsel for global mining | Vale
General counsel, ice cream Latam and legal marketing lead for Brazil | Unilever
Legal director, chief risk and compliance officer for Latin America | Orpea Groupe
Legal and international relations vice president | Ipiranga Produtos de Petróleo
Legal director, Latin America | IBM
General counsel | Horiens Risk Advisors
Managing director, legal and compliance | CPP Investments
General counsel | Cielo
Regional general counsel for Latin America and the Caribbean | Biogen
Chief legal, ethics and compliance officer | Ambev
General counsel | AIG Seguros Brasil
Chief legal officer | Web3Foundation
General counsel | Von Roll
General counsel | Tillots Pharma
Group chief legal officer | Swiss Re
General counsel | Roche
General counsel | PwC Switzerland
Group general counsel | PartnerRe
General counsel | Nestlé
Béranger Pène is the general counsel at Nestrade, Nestlé Group’s global procurement arm. Alongside a team of 15 legal professionals based in four locations worldwide – Switzerland, Kuala Lumpur, Panama,...
Senior vice president and chief counsel | Mondelēz International
Group general counsel | Landis + Gyr
General counsel | Infront Sports & Media
Group general counsel | Implenia
General counsel and company secretary | Citigroup
Marc P. Leuzinger was named general counsel for Citi Switzerland and Liechtenstein in 2018. He is also responsible for Citi’s Legal coverage in Jersey and Monaco. In addition, Marc acts...
Head of legal and compliance | Banque Cramer
Secretary general board affairs and chief governance officer, member of the group executive committee | Audemars Piguet
General counsel | VARO Energy
Mark Geurts is the general counsel of Varo Energy. A gentleman who is a good manager, his team loves to work for him, he is aware of all relevant developments...
Group general counsel | United Group
Executive vice president, member of the management board, responsible for ESG, legal, EHS, audit, procurement and transport security | Umicore
Legal director, global competition and EU affairs | Uber
General counsel | Royal FloraHolland
Leendert is the general counsel of Royal FloraHolland, the world’s biggest auction in ornamental plants, which is facing a major transition from physical auction to an online marketplace. He knows...
Head of legal business, head of corporate and financial law | Philips
Head of legal, franchise team | Inter IKEA Systems
Global general counsel | ING Bank
General counsel and company secretary | Barco
Director legal and compliance | B Medical Systems
Managing counsel CEE and head of legal Türkiye office | Shell
Legal counsel | Groupama Sigorta & Groupama Hayat
Head of legal | Dominos Pizza Türkiye
Head of legal and compliance | Danone Turkey
Legal affairs president | AG Anadolu Grubu Holding
Mustafa Yelligedik graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 1994. He began his career in Anadolu Group at Efes Beverage Group as a lawyer in 1997. He continued his...
| Volkswagen Group Ireland
| Lazard asset management
| Genuity Science
| Diageo Ireland
Executive vice president - chief legal officer and corporate secretary | BLADEX (Banco Latinoamericano De Comercio Exterior)
Jorge Luis Real serves as executive vice president – chief legal officer and corporate secretary. He joined Bladex as vice president, head of legal risk in 2014, was appointed secretary of the...
Senior counsel Middle Americas Zone and Chile | Elanco Animal Health
Legal head, Central America, The Caribbean, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Paraguay | Novartis
Head of compliance | BAC Credomatic
Senior legal counsel | DHL Global Forwarding
General counsel | AES Panama
Angelica has been leading the corporate governance and legal strategy of AES PANAMA and its regional headquarter into the energy transition for 4 years now. She is also de Secretary...
Directora Legal | INCAE
Angela is the current legal director of INCAE business school, a position she has held since 2019. Prior to that, from 2013 up until 2019 she was the regional director...
ESG group compliance and regulatory lead | UBS
Group chief sustainability officer | DBS Bank
Counsel | ACEN
General counsel and company secretary | Transport Asset Holding Entity of New South Wales
Chief legal and risk officer | Tabcorp
Head of privacy | Rio Tinto
General counsel, company secretary and executive for people and culture | Plenti Group
General counsel and company secretary | Kimberly-Clark Australia
General counsel ANZ / Asia (Acting) | Computershare
Since 2011, Mark has worked as an in-house counsel at Computershare Limited, which is a global market leader in share registration, transfer agency, employee equity plans, stakeholder communications and related...
Chief legal officer and company secretary | Brambles
General counsel and company secretary | Ausgrid
General counsel | RAD
First executive vice president, chief legal advisor, head of legal | Bank Leumi
Executive vice president and global general counsel | ICL Group
Vice president, general counsel | Rapac Energy
Vice president, head of legal | HiBob
Vice president, general counsel | Keshet Media Group
Vice president, legal and general counsel | Porsche Cars North America
General counsel | Elementar Analysensysteme
General counsel | Henkel
Group general counsel, head of legal and compliance Germany and International | Kaufland
Mirko Tegeler is the group general counsel, head of legal and compliance for Germany and International at Kaufland. He is an acclaimed lawyer with an extensive career as an in-house...
General counsel | Heraeus Holding
General counsel | Nestlé
Head of legal affairs | Deutsche Telekom
General counsel an chief compliance officer | Reverse Logistics
General counsel and member of the executive leadership team | Scout24
General counsel | VDMA
General counsel Germany and Austria | Teva
Legal director, general counsel Europe North | Michelin Finanz Gesellschaft für Beteiligungen
Lawyer | SBS
Legal counsel | nbn™ Australia
Group manager legal | Fortescue Metals Group
Senior legal counsel | EBOS Group
Head of legal | Arc Infrastructure
Senior legal counsel | Huawei
Legal partner director | MetLife
Talent, Marketing and Music Head Counsel | TelevisaUnivision
Labour legal corporate manager | Servicios Administrativos Peñoles
Senior director government affairs LATAM | Abbott
Legal manager and counsel | American Express
Senior legal partner | MetLife
Group general counsel | Vendanta
Senior executive vice president and general counsel | Kotak Mahindra Bank
General counsel | Abeille Assurances
Group general counsel | Groupe Casino
Senior vice president, strategic affairs, senior dvisor | Renault Groupe
Group legal and compliance director | RATP Dev
Global senior vice president legal, general counsel | Reckitt
Group general counsel | BNP Paribas
Group general counsel | EDF Renouvelables
European legal counsel and director | SNAP-ON
General counsel | Indevco Group
Regional general counsel, Africa and Middle East | Standard Chartered Bank
Regional general counsel EMEA - EL | ABB
General counsel and FDI policy advisor | Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority
Business and global coordination legal director, secretary of the compliance and audit committee | Iberdrola
Legal department manager | GAM
General counsel | Grupo Iberconsa
Business Counsel | NCR Corporation
Head of capital markets, wealth management, strategy and international activities legal division; legal advisor to the Board | Eurobank
Chief internal legal advisor | Atlantic Insurance
head of legal and compliance greece | Deustche Bank
Senior legal counsel | OSM Maritime Group
Group general counsel and chief legal officer | Piraeus Bank
Group general counsel and BoD member | Olympia group of companies
General counsel | Motor Oil Hellas
Director legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors | Athens International Airport
General counsel SEE | 3M
Ethics and compliance director, Greece, Cyprus, Malta and Portugal | Astellas EMEA
General counsel for the Americas | Amadeus
General counsel and chief compliance officer | H.I.G. Capital
General counsel | CEMEX
Spanish South America regional counsel | IBM Mexico
Country head of legal, compliance and AFC | Deutsche Securities
Legal and business development manager | Scanntech
Latam legal affairs manager | Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies
Regional legal director Southern Cone | Colgate Palmolive
Latin America geo lead and associate general counsel | Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Vice president legal affairs | YPF
Legal and regulatory affairs director | PampaEnergía
Chief regional counsel | The Walt Disney Company
General counsel Latin America and global legal operations | Orica
Legal manager, data protection officer and human rights correspondant | L’Oréal Chile
Legal Manager | ElectroDunas
Head of legal and corporate affairs | Terpel Peru
Manager of the legal and general secretariat division | Banco GNB Peru
General counsel | Automotores Toyota Colombia
General secretary and legal director | Caracol Primera Cadena Radial Colombiana
Senior counsel Latam and third party risk, export controls team manager | Zoom Video Communications
Chief legal officer | Grupo Aval
Advisor - legal vice president | Grupo Energía Bogotá
Legal director | Odinsa
General counsel | AES Dominicana
Abogado coordinador legal | Cesar Iglesias
General counsel | KTM
Head of legal | Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Regional counsel Europe and regional compliance officer | GATX Rail Europe
General counsel | Head Sport
General counsel | Porsche Holding
Head of Legal, Novartis Technical Operations & Sandoz | Novartis
Head of legal department | Telefonica Audiovisual Digital/Movistar+
Head of international branches legal department | CaixaBank
Former general counsel | WeTransfer
General counsel | Barco
Chief legal and compliance officer | B Medical Systems
Deputy director general – head of legal department | Cosmetics Europe
General counsel | ING
Executive vice president legal, security, EHS, audit, P&T | Umicore
Abogado del departamento legal | Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo
Senior legal counsel, Middle Americas zone | Elanco
Legal head CANDEAN | Novartis
Senior legal counsel | Mondelēz International
Head of legal department | Deutsche Bank
Head of legal | Dominos Pizza Turkey
Chief legal consultant, corporate secretary | Fibabanka
Head of legal Türkiye and managing legal counsel | Shell
General counsel | Enterprise Ireland
Deputy head of legal Ireland | Optum Ireland
Associate general counsel | Udemy
General Counsel and Company Secretary | Transport Asset Holding Entity of New South Wales
General Counsel and Company Secretary | Kimberly-Clark Australia and New Zealand
General Counsel and Company Secretary | Ausgrid
Head of Privacy | Rio Tinto
General Counsel, Company Secretary and Executive for People & Culture | Plenti
General counsel | Salvatore Ferragamo
General counsel | Aviva Italy
Group general counsel | Assicurazioni Generali
| Veidekke Norge
| Swedbank Norge
| Posten Norge - Bring
| NorgesGruppen
| COOP Norge
| Alliance Healthcare Norge Apotekdrift
Head of M&A Legal | Arla Foods
General Counsel | Salling Group
Group Legal & Compliance Officer | Unifeeder
Group General Counsel | Stark Group
Legal Counsel | COWI A/S
Head of large corporates legal, loans and cash management | Danske Bank A/S
Legal Counsel | MT Højgaard A/S
General counsel and corporate VP | CHR Hansen
Chief legal innovation officer | Novartis
Head of legal | Banque Cramer
Group general counsel | Landis+Gyr AG
Chief legal officer and secretary of the board | Audemars Piguet
Head of legal, Switzerland and Austria | Google
General counsel | PwC Switzerland
Group general counsel | PartnerRe
Senior vice president and chief counsel, Mondelēz Europe | Mondelēz
General counsel | Tillotts Pharma AG
Group general counsel | Implenia AG
Member of group executive committee, legal compliance internal audit | Swiss Re
Chief legal officer and member of the executive committee | Nestlé
Chief legal officer | Aphria
Editor’s note: This interview was conducted prior to March 2020. What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? The...
Vice president, corporate secretary and general counsel | Barrick Gold Corporation
Chief legal officer and corporate secretary | QuadReal Property Group
EVP, external affairs & chief legal officer | Westjet
General counsel | Glendower Capital
Tom Hodge has developed in-house processes to aggregate deal and fundraising data and map market trends to seek competitive advantage in transactions and fundraising. He has also developed procedures for...
General counsel and company secretary | Dixons Carphone
Team size: 52 comprising legal, company secretariat, financial services compliance, business standards and risk management and insurance Major legal advisers (United Kingdom): Addleshaw Goddard, Bristows, Clyde & Co, DAC Beachcroft,...
General counsel and company secretary | Legal & General
Senior executive vice president and group general counsel, chief compliance officer | Twenty-First Century Fox
General counsel | Ally Financial
Senior vice president and general counsel | Henry Schein
Executive vice president and general counsel | American Express
Executive vice president and general counsel | Intel
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | Plains GP Holdings
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary | Marathon Oil
Senior vice president, corporate and legal affairs and chief of staff, secretary | Henry Schein
Chief legal officer | DraftKings
Head of legal | Domino’s Turkey
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Turkish data protection law has been a hot topic since its...
Legal and compliance assistant manager | Mercedes-Benz Finansman Türk
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? As legal team, together with my colleague İpek İbrahimagaoglu, the most...
Head of legal, Turkey | Ferrero Turkey
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? In Turkey, Ferrero has grown in an inorganic way. After formal...
Director, legal affairs | Sabancı Holding
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? The sale of 57.88% shares of Yünsa, a publicly traded company...
Head of legal | Shell
Partner | Cleary Gottlieb
Number of years practice: 28 Principal practice areas: Capital Markets, Corporate Advisory, Corporate Governance, Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures Bar admissions: California, New York Languages spoken: English, Spanish Jorge Juantorena’s...
Partner | Thompson & Knight LLP
Number of years practice: 25 Principal practice areas: Energy Project Development, Project Finance, and Mergers and Acquisitions, with a particular focus on the US and Latin America Bar admissions: Florida,...
Partner, Latin America Practice Group Head | Paul Hastings
Number of years practice: 39 Principal practice areas: Corporate Finance; Capital Markets; Banking; M&A Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English What differentiates your Mexico-facing practice from those of your...
General counsel | Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
Senior legal director | Smith & Nephew
Director general and legal counsel | New Development Bank (NDB)
| Volkswagen India
Can you explain some of the regulatory challenges faced by legal team in working for a leading multinational in automobile sector? Automobile MNC companies have been experiencing many policy changes...
| Volkswagen Group Sales India
Can you explain the roles of team members within the department? I have five other lawyers in my team and one paralegal: a brief profile of each is given below:...
| Syngenta India
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? Syngenta India is the mothership company in India and in the...
| Société Générale Global Solutions Center
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? The Bangalore hub of LeMANs (Legal Master Agreements Negotiations Team) is...
| GE South Asia
Can you explain the structure of the legal team? GE in India is a conglomerate with diverse businesses ranging encompassing steam power, gas power, renewable energy, healthcare and aviation, and...
| GE John F Welch Technology Centre
Can you explain how the legal team is structured and highlight senior individuals? The department is structured with the organisational head being the general counsel. Various verticals are managed by...
| Diageo
| Bridgestone India
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? The legal and compliance department in Central America and the Caribbean...
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? Aside from general counsel Central America and the Caribbean Zamira Zapata...
Director of legal | OZON Holdings
Legal, compliance and quality director Russia and Belarus | Novo Nordisk
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? A localisation (CMO) deal for our Biopharma portfolio in Russia, in...
Senior legal manager and head of legal Russia | Sony Electronics
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? The most important litigation that I have been involved in during...
Legal director for Russia and CIS | Abbott Laboratories
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Abbott has a robust strategy to expand its portfolio both organically...
Chief legal officer at PJSC MMK, director of MMK-Pravo | MMK-Pravo
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? During the last two years, our company has provided legal support...
Head of legal and member of the board | Exclases Holdings
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? First, constant support for the sale and delivery of helicopters to...
Director for corporate and legal affairs | TVEL
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? In 2019, TVEL and the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission signed the...
Head of legal at South Ural | Magnit
Manager – legal and commercial | Idemitsu Australia Reseources
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Muswellbrook Pumped Hydro: Project lead on the ongoing development of a...
General counsel, Australia and New Zealand | Kimberly-Clark Australia
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Following a high-profile campaign by wastewater authorities and certain consumer advocates,...
Head of privacy | Rio Tinto
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Many people working in global data privacy law would provide exactly...
General counsel and company secretary | Ausgrid
| Syngenta Proteção de Cultivos
| Polo Capital Management
Felipe Salgueiro Novaes leads a small but experienced team, with Mariana Pedrosa and Victor Rocha focusing on credit recovery matters, and Pedro Machado handling distressed assets.
| Gerdau
| Gemalto
| Bunge South America
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? We have structured the legal department on three pillars: in one...
| Bridgestone do Brasil
| Biogen Brazil
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? Our team is built only with senior legal and compliance professionals....
Head of legal and corporate affairs | ING Bank Romania
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? When speaking about transactions I must start by saying that a...
Corporate legal director | E.ON Romania
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Legal and compliance advice on local due diligence process for...
Legal operations manager, senior legal counsel | Hochtief Infrastructure
As one of the world’s most international construction service providers, HOCHTIEF has been in business for over 140 years. Dr Holger Kirsten Rosenbauer joined the company in 2009 and is...
Head of legal digital | Ströer
Ströer is a leading German provider of out-of-home media and offers advertising customers individualised and fully integrated, end-to-end solutions along the entire marketing and sales value chain. Its head of...
Vice president legal and contracts, general counsel and chief compliance officer | Thales Deutschland
General counsel, vice president legal and contracts and chief compliance officer for defence major, Thales, Dr André Körtgen reflects on the growth he has achieved over his professional career and...
Director legal, EMEA | Calypso Technology
Oliver Hengeler, director legal, EMEA at Calypso TechnologyI started his career in 2001 as legal counsel at T-Systems, the enterprise customers division of Deutsche Telekom in Frankfurt. From 2006 to...
General counsel and chief compliance officer | Reverse Logistics Group
In place as general counsel and authorised representative of Telefónica Global Services from 2014, during which time he enjoyed an enviable record of success at the telecoms giant, Florian Engel...
Group general counsel | Sporveien Oslo
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? The biggest project at Sporveien for the time being is the...
Chief competition counsel | Equinor ASA
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? I have not been involved in litigations the last two years,...
General counsel | CGI Norge
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? In the last three years, I have been through two successful...
General counsel | Handelsbanken
In what ways do you see the in-house legal role evolving in your region over the next few years? I see a trend where in-house-legal functions will involve themselves even...
Head of legal | Mantena
General counsel, Norway and Denmark | Siemens
Head of legal | Telenor
General counsel | Indevco Group
In place at the company since 1999, Roger Tanios is absolutely central to the continued success of Indevco Group, Lebanon’s international packaging and household care disposables company. Providing legal support...
Regional general counsel, Africa and the Middle East | Standard Chartered
Karl Rogers joined Standard Chartered in 2010 from Norton Rose Fulbright, and leads the regional Africa and Middle East legal team across 25 countries. He has driven the direction of...
Head of legal Middle East and Africa | ABB Power Grids
Dominik Engel arrived in Dubai from Europe in 2008, which has proved to be an extremely successful move given the success he has enjoyed since. Joining Giesecke & Devrient in...
Group general counsel and company secretary | Arabtec Holding
Geoff Allen relocated to the Middle East from the UK in 2012, joining Arabtec in 2013. He was appointed as group general counsel and company secretary in early 2017 and...
General counsel | OpenJaw Technologies
Upon qualifying as a solicitor in January 2009, Gemma Neylon joined the Irish and UK roll of solicitors, specialising in technology, IP and commercial law. She also qualified as an...
Associate general counsel | Optum
‘Siun Rogers has worked with Optum since May 2017, having previously worked in-house with Zurich Insurance. Optum is a leading health services and technology company and part of UnitedHealth Group....
General counsel | Citibank Europe
‘Nigel Kemp is one of the most senior in-house lawyers in the Irish banking market. Since his appointment as general counsel of Citibank Europe, he has overseen the development of...
Senior corporate counsel | Hubspot
Michelle Geraghty, senior corporate counsel at HubSpot, began her career training with BCM Hanby Wallace, now Byrne Wallace. Following this she spent nine months working in Australia, and as she...
Vice president and corporate secretary | Eaton Industries (Ireland)
Highly spoken of and noted for his quality, Nigel Crawford is a vice president and corporate secretary at the multinational power management company Eaton Corporation. Eaton entered the Irish market...
General counsel Americas | Orica
Jorge Hirmas Bormann, general counsel Americas of ORICA, joined the company in 2015 as a legal counsel and has steadily risen the ranks to his current title by February 2019....
General counsel and secretary | Blue Apron
After seven years of working in private practice and developing expertise in technology M&A, venture financings, private equity and other corporate and commercial transactions, Benjamin Singer moved in-house to join...
Executive vice president corporate and legal affairs and general counsel | Mondelēz International
In the capacity of executive vice president, corporate and legal affairs and general counsel, Gerhard W. Pleuhs leads the legal, corporate secretarial, compliance and security functions as well as corporate...
Executive vice president of business affairs and chief legal and compliance officer | Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment (BSE)
‘Jeff B. Gewirtz is responsible for advising BSE’s board of advisory directors and executive management on key legal, business, and strategic matters for BSE’s broad sports and entertainment industry holdings....
Chief legal officer | FanDuel
Christian Genetski joined FanDuel, a web-based fantasy sports game with six million registered users, as chief legal officer in January 2015, as the first in-house counsel. Over time, he built...
General counsel, vice president law and human resources | KLX
‘As general counsel and vice president, law and human resources of KLX, Roger Franks serves as a key member of the company’s senior management team. KLX is the world’s leading...
Executive vice president, general counsel, chief compliance and ethics officer, chief risk officer and corporate secretary | ON Semiconductor
George Cave is a celebrated and experienced in-house counsel based in Arizona with copious international experience, including a seven year stint in Switzerland covering Eastern European and Chinese legal business...
Senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | AGCO
Having joined AGCO in 2000, Roger Batkin has extensive knowledge of the world-leading agricultural solution provider’s operations, which he draws upon as the company’s senior vice president, general counsel and...
The Genesys legal team cover a broad range of daily legal activities required by the computer software company, including corporate law, contract law, corporate governance, regulatory matters, acquisitions, labour law...
| ERM: Environmental Resources Management
ERM is a renowned global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, social consulting services and sustainability related services in over 40 countries with 160 offices. The company’s in-house legal team...
Led by New York-based general counsel Timothy Chow, Diageo’s Latin America and Caribbean legal team is a brand protection powerhouse. Given the huge range of products Diageo produces, with a...
Insurance | Legal & General
Team size: 22 Major law firms used: Clifford Chance, Eversheds Sutherland, Pinsent Masons, Slaughter and May ‘He’s an average musician,’ says Legal & General chief executive Nigel Wilson of his...
Retail and Consumer Products | Dixons Carphone
Team size: 47 Major law firms used: Addleshaw Goddard, DLA Piper, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer The last five years have seen Dixons Carphone unify its operations following the £3.8bn merger between...
Partner | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Number of years practice: 26 Principal practice areas: Capital markets, corporate governance, M&A, joint ventures, finance Bar admissions: New York, California Languages spoken: English and Spanish (native) Jorge Juantorena is...
Partner | Orrick
Number of years practice: 24 Principal practice areas: M&A and private equity, energy, infrastructure, renewable energy, banking and finance Bar admissions: Texas, Florida Languages spoken: English and Spanish Another key...
Partner and chair of Latin American practice | Paul Hastings LLP
Number of years practice: 38 Principal practice areas: Banking, capital markets, corporate finance, M&A Admissions: New York Languages spoken: English Michael Fitzgerald’s reputation for, and track record in, innovative and...
Partner and joint head of corporate | Clifford Chance
Based in: London Principal practice areas: M&A corporate Admissions: The Law Society of England and Wales Nigel Wellings has extensive experience of covering private company M&A, joint ventures and equity...
Partner and global co-head of international arbitration | Linklaters
Based in: London Principal practice areas: Dispute resolution Having worked in the field for 25 years, Matthew Weiniger QC is a specialist in international arbitrations, public international law, and trade...
Partner | Clifford Chance
Based in: London Principal practice areas: Funds and investment management, M&A, corporate An expert in private funds and investment management, Gerard Saviola has advised a number of different fund sponsors...
Partner, head of global energy and infrastructure group | Orrick Rambaud Martel
Based in: Number of years practice: 39 Principal practice areas: Infrastructure, M&A and private equity, energy, funds Languages spoken: French, English What is the geographical focus of your practice in...
Partner, head of global arbitration practice | Herbert Smith Freehills
Based in: Number of years practice: 30 Principal practice areas: International arbitration Languages spoken: English and French What is the geographical focus of your practice in Africa? Pan-African practice. Please...
Partner | Betto Seraglini
Number of years practice: 24 Principal practice areas: International arbitration Languages spoken: French and English What is the geographical focus of your practice in Africa? Pan-African practice, with a focus...
Counsel | Linklaters
Based in: Paris Principal practice areas: Projects, public and administrative law An expert on energy, renewables and infrastructure projects, Mark Barges has a track record of advising on several major...
| SENER Grupo de Ingeniería
Representing one of Spain’s leading engineering and technologies organisations, SENER’s legal team of 13 professionals aim to control all legal and operational risk across the group’s diverse industrial holdings. Led...
| REN (Redes Energéticas Nacionais)
Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN) owns two of Portugal’s main energy infrastructure networks – the National Electricity Transmission Grid (RNT) and the National Natural Gas Transportation Grid (RNTGN) – and is...
| Gestmin
A holding company backed by one of the most prominent and richest families in Portugal, Gestmin operates in diverse areas, with notable investments in the energy, industrials and bulk cereal...
| Gestamp Automoción
Operating 95 production sites and 12 R&D centres and employing 32,000 people in 20 countries, Gestamp Automoción is recognised as one of the leaders in the European automotive components industry....
| Eiffage Infraestructuras
A multinational company that has activities across the construction sector including public works, manufacturing materials and the installation of asphalt agglomerates, Eiffage Infraestructuras has successfully increased its turnover on a...
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
A wholly state-owned enterprise, Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) is one of the largest banks in Portugal, with its multinational services servicing total assets of around €93bn. CGD’s legal team...
| Bergé y Cía
One of Spain’s most historic corporate groups, Bergé y Cía is a Spanish company comprised of diversified operations across 10 countries. Divided into legal, tax and corporate secretarial areas, the...
| Volkswagen Financial Services
In 2017, Volkswagen Financial Services separated the Volkswagen Bank from the Volkswagen Financial Services organisation. This project was a highly demanding project from a legal and compliance perspective for the...
| REN - Redes Energéticas Nacionais
Portuguese energy sector company REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais, engages in the transmission of electricity and natural gas in Portugal through various subsidiaries. Supporting the activities, the legal team is...
| LaFargeHolcim
A major component of the global construction industry given its dominant position in the cement, aggregates and ready mix market, LafargeHolcim’s extensive business operations across the world are supported by...
| HERITAGE B
HERITAGE B is a family-owned industrial holding with presently two business activities, Teka and THIELMANN, and intends to grow by setting up more business activities in the near future. Within...
| Eurodivisas (Global Exchange)
Eurodivisas is the parent company of 22 subsidiaries located in different countries, with almost 3,000 employees. It’s also authorised to provide currency exchange services by the local authorities. Eurodivisas and...
| Eiffage Infraestructuras
Eiffage Infraestructuras is the Spanish subsidiary of the French civil engineering group that is skilled in construction, concessions, infrastructure and energy, employing more than 64,000 people globally. The legal team...
| eDreams ODIGEO
‘eDreams ODIGEO is one of the world’s largest online travel companies and one of the largest European e-commerce businesses. eDreams ODIGEO and each of its five leading brands – Opodo,...
| Bergé y Compañía
Having almost 150 years of history, Bergé y Compañía is a leader in the automotive and logistics service sectors. With a team of more than 4,500 people and present in...
| BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) - Intellectual Property
BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) is a multinational global financial services group founded in 1857. The Group has a strong leadership position in the Spanish market, is the largest financial...
| Ageas Portugal
Catarina Sousa Rodrigues, head of legal counselling and litigation, leads a highly skilled in-house legal team at Ageas Portugal comprised of 15 lawyers, with specialists in legal counselling, litigation and...
Vice president and intellectual property counsel | Kate Spade & Company
‘Geri Mankoff-Elias is a true leader and role model in both the in-house counsel and intellectual property arenas,’ says David Bernstein at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. As vice president and...
General counsel | Clayton Homes
An ‘active voice’ in the industry, Tom Hodges represented national trade association Manufactured Housing Institute at US House of Representatives’ subcommittees on both financial institutions and consumer credit. Hodges is...
Vice president and deputy general counsel | Schneider Electric
‘Schneider is in the business of making energy more efficient,’ says award-winning corporate counsel Germaine Gurr on her decisions to move in-house. ‘I thought it would be a socially responsible...
Assistant general counsel – litigation | Capital One
Capital One is the eighth largest bank-holding company in the United States. Leading a team of three, Leah Getlan reached resolution in a complex consumer class action brought against ING...
Assistant general counsel | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, is one of the fastest growing large cap companies in the country, with share prices around one and a half times what they were four years ago. As...
Senior executive vice-president, group general counsel, and chief compliance officer | 21st Century Fox and News Corp
Gerson Zweifach showed just how much he loves a challenge when he stepped into his first ever in-house role for Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-hit news empire. He started in early 2012,...
Senior vice-president and general counsel | DuPont
Thomas Sager has spent the entire duration of his career to date at Dupont, and in that time has certainly made his mark. He helped pioneer the Dupont Convergence and...
Vice-president, corporate secretary and associate general counsel | Clorox
Angela Hilt has played a leadership role in Clorox’s diversity initiatives; the company’s legal team has a strong record of retention rates, and the wider group has a solid corporate...
Executive vice-president and general counsel | The DISH Network
As pointed out by one of his many admirers, Stanton Dodge’s story is compelling. He is a true home-grown talent within DISH, having started out at its predecessor company as...
| Volkswagen DoğuŞ Finans
As a shareholding of Volkswagen Financial Services and Doğuş group companies in Turkey, Volkswagen Doğuş Finans (VDF) and its group companies operate in a variety of business areas such as...
| GE Turkey
The legal team at GE Turkey is responsible for providing legal and compliance leadership and strategic legal advice to all the business and corporate teams globally and locally. It generally...
| Bunge Türkiye
The Turkish subsidiary of international Dutch agricultural producer, Bunge is a major oilseeds producer and supplier to manufacturers of vegetable oils across Turkey and the Middle East. The company also...
| Akkök Sanayi Yatırım ve Geliştirme
Çağla Zıngıl, chief legal officer and legal director, runs an impressive in-house legal outfit at Akkök Sanayi Yatırım ve Geliştirme (Akkök Holdings). After its founding in 1952, Akkök Holdings has...
| General Electric Türkiye
For over 60 years, American multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) has operated in Turkey through its subsidiary General Electric Türkiye. With activities in a number of sectors including aviation, healthcare,...
| Amgen Türkiye
Following the acquisition by Amgen of Turkish drug maker Mustafa Nevzat for $700 million in 2012, the merged entity began operating with Canan Arslan heading legal matters in Turkey since...
Assistant general counsel, member of the regional management board | CSC
With over twenty years in CSC Germany, assistant general counsel Juergen Schminke is highly skilled in the legal and business aspects of IT, demonstrating significant experience in negotiations of large...
Legal counsel and compliance officer | AES Entek
Since joining AES Entek in 2012, Gülenay Ruşen Gelmez has led major changes in the structure of the company by merging all department legal matters into a central function. She...
Head of legal | LUKOIL Eurasia
A highly skilled energy lawyer with 15 years of experience in different sectors of the energy industry, Müge Önal heads all Eurasian legal activities of Lukoil, Russia’s second largest oil...
Legal and corporate affairs director | Microsoft
Heading all legal and corporate affairs in Microsoft Turkey, Yasemin Genc has strived to shift the perception of the legal department within the business. To this end she has taken...
| Syngenta
The legal team of Syngenta, the world’s leading maker of crop chemicals, has been central to facilitating the company’s strategy for dealing with a growing global population. As the company’s...
| Swisscanto Asset Management
Following its takeover by Zürcher Kantonalbank, legal team at Swisscanto Asset Management has recently adopted a new structure and assumed various new responsibilities. However, based on the legal requirements of...
| SICPA Management
SICPA develops and distributes overt and covert high security ink for banknotes, documents and brand protection, occupying a niche in financial services. The legal team at SICPA understand that the...
| Selecta Management
Selecta Management, a leading vending and coffee services company with a turnover of €740m and employing 4,300 staff. Founded in Switzerland in 1957, Selecta has grown its geographic market presence...
| Pictet Asset Management
Pictet Asset management considers itself a ‘flat’ organisation, with legal team members interacting on a day-to-day basis directly with both operational staff and senior management. The team of 15 lawyers,...
| LafargeHolcim
In 2015 Swiss cement giant Holcim merged with its French rival Lafarge to form one of the largest building materials and aggregates companies in the world. The merged entity is...
| Kuehne + Nagel International
The legal affairs of Kuehne + Nagel Group, a global transportation and logistics company, are led by group general counsel Marc Pfeffer. With over 63,000 employees at more than 1,000...
| Generali Schweiz
Headed by general counsel Hans-Ulrich Schoch, the legal team at Generali Schweiz has helped the company maintain its record as an insurance innovator by overseeing the introduction of several new...
| Geberit Group
Christian Vornehm, general counsel at Geberit Group, a manufacturer and supplier of sanitary parts and related products, leads a team that deal with a challenging environment in the construction industry....
| Amgen
When Robert Sexton, vice president and general counsel joined in 2005 the team had four lawyers in the Swiss headquarters. Known as the “International Legal Group” or “ILG”, the team now...
Group General Counsel | Nobel Biocare Holding AG
Jörg Von Manger-Koenig has played an integral part in growing the legal department into a global heavy function that integrates legal, IP and compliance, regulatory affairs, quality management and human...
Head of Legal and Compliance | IG Bank S.A.
Heading the legal and compliance affairs of this self-described ‘start-up’ Swiss Bank, Flavio started his activities in the role of head of legal and compliance at IG Bank SA less...
Group General Counsel | Infront Group
Leading sports marketing group Infront deal with a variety of legal and business issues while also experiencing ownership changes in the last few years; in early 2015 they were acquired...
General Counsel | Fédération des Entreprises Romandes Genève
Increasing her teams’ ‘motivation and engagement’ by rearranging working hours have been among the most significant changes Olivia has made to her team. Olivia and her colleagues have written several...
Group General Counsel | Implenia AG
German Grüniger took over the role of Group General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer in 2014 and is since 2019 a member of the Implenia Executive Committee. Before joining Implenia,...
Director – legal counsel | BNP Paribas
Real estate and capital markets lawyer Eugene Phua assumed his current position as legal head of real estate and supply chain financing, and legal co-head of loan capital markets in...
Regional legal director | Heineken Asia Pacific
Geraldine Lim started her tenure at Heineken in 2013 following its acquisition of Asia Pacific Breweries, where she had been employed as general counsel. Lim was closely involved in the...
Legal director, South Asia and Korea | Dell
Sase Karthigesu leads a team of six and provides legal advice to senior management in regards to human resources, marketing, internal sales and operations across a wide variety of contractual...
General counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer | Petron
Joel Angelo Cruz has been vice president and general counsel at Petron Corporation since 2013. He joined the company in 2010 and initially served as corporate secretary and compliance officer...
General counsel | Delfi
Gerald Chew joined Delfi (then known as Petra Foods), one of the leading players in Southeast Asia’s chocolate confectionery market, in January 2005. A lawyer praised for his professionalism and...
| Moscow Exchange
Well known in Russia for both its ambitious innovations and impressive work on key financial transactions, the 40-strong legal department at the Moscow Exchange is among the most formidable in...
Head of Legal (Russia) | Sony Electronics CJSC
‘I like the legal profession itself and enjoy when I’m able to propose possibilities for business development’, says Evgeniya. Though Evgeniya Vetoshnikova was only 27 when she was appointed Sony...
Head of Legal | MosStroiTransGas (MSTG)
Evgeniy manages the 11-strong legal function of leading Russian oil and gas business, MosStroiTransGas (MSTG). Joining the legal department at a difficult time for the company and establishing a team...
Group Legal Counsel | Ricoh Rus
As group legal counsel for Russia at Ricoh Rus, the Russian arm of an international image electronics company, Evgenia Solomentseva has the opportunity to interact with representatives of many international...
Head of Legal | Exclases Holdings Ltd. (distributor of AgustaWestland Helicopters)
Participating in the sale of AgustaWestland helicopters in Russia and CIS has been extremely rewarding for Sergey Potanin, head of legal at Exclases Holdings. ‘Working with the most important and demanding...
Head of Legal | GlavUpDK (entity under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Evgeny Moskovets heads a 24-lawyer team across various locations at GlavUpD – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ administration for the diplomatic corps. Upon appointment, Evgeny conducted significant structural changes; setting...
Chief Legal Officer | Northern Capital Gateway LLC
Starting out as an in-house lawyer straight after graduating with his law degree in 1995, Sergey Krylov has grown to become a highly trusted professional with an outstanding reputation. He...
Executive Vice Predisdent Legal & Corporate, Member of the Managing Board | ETK LLC (Eurasian Pipeline Consortium)
Currently serving as executive vice-president for legal & corporate at ETK LLC, one of the largest suppliers of pipes and steel products to the markets of Russia and CIS countries,...
General Counsel Cluster Russia and Central Asia | Siemens AG
As Siemens’ Russia and Central Asia general counsel, Svetlana Gerbel has supported various business lines, including healthcare, energy and industrial automation. ‘It is hardly possible to find any other company,...
International Legal Counsel | Proxima Capital Group
Prior to starting his in-house career at NVision Group in 2013, Sergey Dmitriev has gathered around ten years of professional experience working for leading law firms across Germany and Russia....
Senior lawyer and head of M&A | NPRO Ural LLC
As head of legal and M&A, Sergey Baksheev manages 12 legal employees across two separate plants at NPRO Ural, one of Russia’s leading mining businesses. Centralising the activities of legal...
| Belmond Peru Management
The Belmond Peru Management legal team supports all five areas of the company within its operations of luxury hotels, trains services and river cruises. Senior lawyer Bianca Tassara Cicchini has...
| Total E&P Norge
Total E&P Norge, a specialist in the exploration and production of oil and gas, continues to be an increasingly prominent figure on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and runs one of...
| Swedbank Norge
Swedbank is a full service bank headquartered in Stockholm that caters for companies and private individuals. The bank is known to have a strong legal team across the Nordic region,...
| Get
Get is a cable TV operator and internet service provider, which has the second largest customer base in Norway. In 2014, Get was acquired by Danish company TDC in a...
| Flügger
Flügger is an international conglomerate headquartered in Denmark with 12 subsidiaries located throughout Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia. The company specialises in designing, producing and marketing decorative painting, wood protection,...
| Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS)
Norway’s Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) is a company at the cutting edge of the oil and gas exploration and research market, and provides invaluable geophysical services that allow oil companies to...
| Danske Bank (Norge)
Recently undergoing a restructuring effort, the Danske Bank (Norge) legal team was previously managed via two separate entities; one of which reported directly to the group legal counsel in Denmark,...
| Coor Service Management
Coor Service Management is a market leading organisation of integrated facilities management and industrial services in the Nordic region. The company specialises in facility management services that enable organisations and...
| ConocoPhillips Norge
The five-strong legal team at ConocoPhillips Norge, the Norwegian wing of the multinational energy corporation, is led by senior counsel Elin Roedder Gundersen who has over 15 years of experience...
| Aberdeen Asset Management Denmark
Described as being ‘key in creating robust systems and procedures’ for real estate transactions leading to a decrease in reliance on external legal counsel, senior lawyer Jacob Kruse Rasmussen heads...
Senior vice president and corporate & institutions - legal | Danske Bank A/S
Ole Jørgensen, as senior vice president and lawyer, was tasked with establishing a legal department that is better suited to Danske Bank’s cross-border nature. Jørgensen collated the legal activities of...
General counsel (Norway & Denmark) | Siemens
As general counsel for Norway, Matthias Geiger is responsible for eight legal professionals and one compliance professional in Norway. In addition to this role, he assumed the responsibilities of GC...
| Gemstone Real Estate Development
Gemstone Real Estate Development is a regional property developer operating at a global scale and a function that is a part of combined legal services across multiple sectors of the...
| GE Middle East, North Africa and Turkey
With revenues of more than $14bn a year, GE’s Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT) division plays an important part in the conglomerate’s global operations. The MENAT legal team...
general counsel and head of market regulation | NASDAQ Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Combining ‘innovation’ with impeccable commercial and regulatory expertise, Angela Russo has a unique level of involvement in NASDAQ’s business operations. When she joined the international financial exchange in 2011, her...
general counsel and secretary | Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
As the world’s largest oil company’s legal head, managing a 150-strong global team, David Kultgen remains one of the region’s best known and most respected general counsels. In-keeping with the...
counsel, practice leader – maritime, aviation, sale and trading | Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
Randall Geuy led the multi-billion-dollar asset-level transfer of Saudi Aramco’s shipping subsidiary, which created the world’s third largest shipping company. He also restructured the company’s entire maritime, aviation, sales and trading...
head of legal services | Oman Investment Fund, Oman
Blessed with ‘charm’, Clinton Genty-Nott impresses both with his technical understanding and the strong relationships he has built inside and outside his organisation. With a dual personality as both public...
general counsel | Qatar District Cooling Co., Qatar
A ‘dedicated’ ‘problem solver’, Marie-Therese Auger works closely with executive management in her leadership of all legal, governance and secretarial functions at the world’s largest district cooling plant operator. Sources...
| Diageo
In the last year, Diageo’s Mexico legal team has consulted on the US$400m acquisition of Tequila Don Julio as part of the firm’s larger investment plans in the country. The...
| Boehringer Ingelheim Mexico
The legal team at Boehringer Ingelheim Mexico, the Mexican division of the global pharmaceutical giant, is made of 10 expert lawyers led by Jorge Dueñas Zapata, legal compliance and ethics...
| Grupo Empresarial Ángeles
José Luis Alberdi is the current legal manager of Grupo Empresarial Ángeles (GEA), a Mexican conglomerate active in range of sectors including multimedia communications, tourism, healthcare and financial services. Demonstrating...
| General Motors Mexico
Having recently reaffirmed its commitment to producing a significant portion of their wide range of automobiles within Mexico, General Motors’ future in the country is assured for the near future...
| Engenium Capital
Engenium Capital is a leading financial specialist in the Mexican leasing and business credit sector with a portfolio of over $1tn in assets. The company was created when GE Capital...
| Diageo
British-headquartered multinational beverages company Diageo owns some of the most famous alcoholic brands in the world. Heading the legal team of Diageo’s Mexican subsidiary is Zamira Zapata who, within five...
Assistant general counsel and senior legal director (Mexico) | Microsoft Corporation
Jorge Vega Iracelay was an associate professor for 10 years specialising in commercial, corporate and contract law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina before moving in-house to GDF SUEZ –...
Assistant general counsel | Kansas City Southern de México (KCSM)
Gerardo Iñigo Heras began his legal career at Mexico’s former Federal Competition Commission between 1998 and 2000. After this he spent four years at law firm Baker & McKenzie where...
Vice president and general counsel | AT&T
As vice president and general counsel of AT&T, a telecoms company with a global revenue of $146bn, George Troy Hatch has facilitated some of the industry’s biggest deals, making the...
General counsel and head of compliance | Laureate International Universities
Fluent in Spanish, English and French, Gerardo Fonseca is recognised for his expertise in M&A, corporate law, negotiations and financial law. After three years at law firm Diez Gargari, Fonseca...
General counsel, Mexico and the Caribbean | Unilever
Ángel de León Zamora’s current role as general counsel for the Mexico and Caribbean region represents a culmination of over 20 years of hands-on professional experience of providing high quality...
Legal general manager for projects, antitrust and compliance | Vale
With LLM’s in corporate law (magnum cum laude) and banking & finance law, the latter from the LSE, plus an MBA from the Fundacão Dom Cabral, Rogério Santos’ academic credentials...
Legal director | GlaxoSmithKline
Legal director for the southern cone (& ‘LatAm Pacific’) at GlaxoSmithKline since 2005, Fernando Gestal has a small team in which he has sought to inculcate a culture of risk...
General counsel for Latin America | Odebrecht Infraestructura
Eduardo Gedeon has been with leading Brazilian construction group, Odebrecht, for 25 years, during which time he has worked with a number of the group’s 14 different business units, such...
Legal director | Repsol-Sinopec
With extensive experience at The Legal 500 recommended firms such as Argentina’s Estudio Beccar Varela and Brazil’s Pinheiro Neto, Pablo Gay Ger moved in-house at Repsol YPF Brasil (today Repsol...
Associate director for legal compliance and ethics | Boehringer-Ingelheim
Jorge Dueñas Zapata is associate director for legal compliance and ethics for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean at pharmaceutical company, Boehringer-Ingelheim. Formerly in-house at Banco Capital where he was...
Legal manager | Carbones del Cerrejon
Jorge Álvarez has been head of legal affairs at integrated coal company, Carbones de Cerrejon, for over 20 years. During his tenure he has been involved in the exit of...
Head of legal | Banco Promerica Ecuador
Twice the president of the Ecuadorian Banking Law Committee of the country’s banking association, Jorge Alvarado has been head of legal at Banco Promerica, since its founding in 2001, indeed,...
head of legal | Aviva Italy
Crossing over from a career in private practice and public notaries, Luca Gentile has been head of legal at Aviva’s Italian branch since April 2013. With international experience, Gentile is...
vice president and chief legal officer EMEA | Whirlpool
Tanya Jaeger de Foras joined Whirlpool, the multinational manufacturer of home appliances, in June 2015 as vice president and chief legal officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa, with the...
general counsel - executive vice president | Atlantia
A highly-experienced and multilingual corporate counsel with a track record of success in complex international affairs, Michelangelo Damasco can cite years of industry experience across different sectors in addition to...
group general counsel | Assicurazioni Generali
With 10 years’ experience at Italy’s largest insurance company, Antonio Cangeri has been group general counsel of the Generali group since the end of 2012. He assumed his current position...
| University College Dublin
One of Ireland’s leading higher education institutions, University College Dublin’s (UCD) day to day operation and strategy is safeguarded by its innovative and forward-looking legal function. Working on a comprehensive...
| Trinity College Dublin – University of Dublin
Trinity College Dublin, the sole college of the University of Dublin, is acknowledged as the leading university in Ireland and has worldwide recognition as one of the leading research-intensive learning...
| National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA)
The National Treasury Management Agency’s legal team is led by chief legal officer Andrew O’Flanagan, responsible for several functions across the group spanning legal, compliance, human resources, secretariat, internal audit...
| National Asset Management Agency (NAMA)
Headquartered in Tralee, public food company Kerry Group control some of Ireland’s most well-known brands including Wall’s, Mattessons and Cheesestrings. Posting a revenue figure of €6bn in 2015 and employing...
General Counsel | OpenJaw Technologies
Providing innovative technological solutions within the travel industry, OpenJaw Technologies’ client portfolio includes British Airways, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, TravelSky and AIRMILES. An accomplished IP lawyer and trade mark...
EMEA legal counsel | Afilias
With broad commercial experience gained across Ireland and Australia, Michelle Geraghty is a veteran in-house lawyer with impressive transactional and organisational experience. During her time at Ion Trading, she supported...
Vice president and lead counsel | General Motors India
Yogesh Wadhwa, vice president and lead counsel at General Motors India (GM India), possess a wealth of experience gleaned from a career that has encompassed a variety of roles and...
General counsel and executive vice president, legal | SBI Card
Having worked at law firms Fox Mandal Little and Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan between 2002 and 2012, Ugen Bhutia gained litigation experience in banking and debt recovery laws by advising on...
Deputy director general of legal | European Central Bank
Former director of legal for the Central Bank of Spain, Roberto Ugena led many of the bank’s defining projects and transactions during his eight-year tenure. He was part of the...
Director of international legal affairs | Grupo San José
Grupo San José’s director of international legal affairs, Ángela López Molina has had an exciting career path. Shortly after her studies in law and business administration she started working in...
Legal counsel | Azora Gestión SGIIC
An industry expert, María Eugenia Aldama Garaizabal was responsible for the legal management of GE Capital Real Estate, the real estate investment unit of the American conglomerate General Electric, in...
General Counsel | Audi
Martin Wagener ‘effortlessly combines business acumen and legal skills’ which enables him to successfully master the complex task that is heading the global legal department of car manufacturer AUDI. He...
Head of legal and risk governance | Hochtief Solutions
At Hochtief Solutions, the European business of the globally operating German construction company founded in 1873, Georg von Bronk has managed to ‘transform the legal department into a modern, service-oriented...
Head of legal and compliance Germany | Skandia Lebensversicherung
Skandia Lebensversicherung offers insurance products linked to funds, has over 360,000 customers and administers a total amount of €12.4bn, while the Swedish company operates through its subsidiaries in over 20...
Vice president, global IP and IP litigation | QIAGEN
Jürgen Schneider works for a biotech company with over 30 subsidiaries in more than 20 countries and in a market environment that is clearly marked by its competitiveness. Peers are...
Legal counsel | Porsche Automobil Holding
Holger Pittroff is serving as legal counsel to Porsche and sets himself apart thanks to his high degree of ‘flexibility and solution-orientation’, say admirers. These seem crucial character traits in...
Head of legal | DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga
As head of legal of German Soccer League DFL (Deutsche Fußball Liga) Jürgen Paepke is rated as ‘certainly one of the key figures in German sports law’, but is also...
Legal counsel – copyright and litigation | Google Germany
Georg Nolte works for a company that is regularly in the spotlight and frequently subject to (or indeed active part of) legislative developments which are of significant relevance to the...
Legal counsel | E.ON
Agnieszka Mögelin-Zinger is a legal counsel in E.ON’s M&A team in Düsseldorf but regularly draws on resources worldwide when working on projects. This international outlook is not surprising for an...
Group legal counsel | Scandlines Deutschland
Gerlinde Krieger is group legal counsel at Scandlines, a German-Danish shipping company that carries 20 million passengers and 4 million cars annually. Krieger’s team is based in Germany and Denmark,...
General counsel | Nestlé Deutschland
Helge Köhlbrandt is highly regarded for his ‘absolutely outstanding management of the currently largest antitrust proceeding in Germany’, a great achievement and not an easy task given the enormous media...
Director legal investment banking | UBS Deutschland
At UBS Investmentbank, Holger Hirschberg is in charge of the bank’s corporate finance business, particularly providing legal advice in IPOs, capital increases, mergers and take overs. His role continuously exposes...
Senior corporate counsel | Merck Group
One of the particular challenges in Sonja Hilge’s role at Merck is the particular ‘mix of globally operating DAX30 company and Darmstadt-based family business’, a combination that ensures ‘exciting legal...
General counsel | Deutsche Annington Immobilien
Thomas Görgemanns is general counsel at Deutsche Annington Immobilien, with 210,000 properties in 600 locations Germany’s largest housing association, entirely owned by private equity investor Terra Firma Capital Partners. Görgemanns’...
Head of legal | STAWAG Stadtwerke Aachen
Alexandra Genten heads STAWAG Stadtwerke Aachen’s legal department. The company provides services in the gas, district heating, water and electricity sectors. Genten is highly regarded for her ‘connected way of...
General counsel and chief compliance officer | STYROLUTION
Styrolution is a global supplier of styrene plastics and a BASF and INEOS joint venture with a turnover of €5.8bn and over 3,000 employees worldwide. Not surprising, Anke Frankenberger’s team...
Executive director legal | Merz Pharma
Merz Pharma is a pharmaceutical company with subsidiaries in England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, the US, Mexico, Russia and Asia and a turnover of €980m. Degenhardt not only heads...
Head of legal and compliance | PERI
Gerhard Brand has been head of legal & compliance at PERI since 2012 and the ‘very good lawyer and great analytical mind’ has within a short time succeeded in setting...
| Société Générale
Société Générale is one of France’s most historic and strongest performing financial services companies; from its headquarters in Paris it commanded a revenue figure of €25.64bn in 2015 thanks to...
| Siparex Sigefi
Known as an innovator in the market, Siparex Sigefi is one of the leading French private equity groups. The firm has a mantra of simplification in a complex industry, and...
| Orange Business Services
Being a worldwide global leader for the provision of telecom and IT services, Orange Business Services presides over a significant global operation in 160 countries, gathering €6.4bn revenue in 2015...
| LafargeHolcim
The LafargeHolcim Group was formed in 2015 following a merger between French cement manufacturer Lafarge and Swiss ggregates group Holcim. The new group, which employs 115,000 people, operates in 90...
| Ivanhoé Cambridge Europe
Involved in two major transactions in France in 2016 – the increase in Ivanhoé Cambridge’s stake in Gécina and the iconic “Project Duo” development in Paris – the French legal...
| Eiffage
One of Europe’s leading construction companies that has a large presence in the French market, Eiffage relies on the legal and compliance support of a team that is richly experienced...
| Capgemini
Capgemini is a French multinational management consultancy with expertise in technology and outsourcing. Over the last 20 years, the company has grown exponentially, covering new markets and offering new services....
| AXA Investment Managers
French insurance giant AXA is one of the foremost global financial companies, holding a particularly salient position in the international corporate landscape through exposure to the most important markets around...
| Altarea Cogedim
Paris-headquartered Altarea Cogedim is a commercial, housing and corporate real estate developer that occupies a position at the forefront of the European real estate market; it is listed on Euronext...
group general counsel and head of group human resources | AXA Global
‘In France in 1996; if someone said to me I would be general counsel of the entire group I would have said “impossible as I am not a French lawyer”...
group chief legal officer | Groupe PSA
Mark Rollinger joined PSA Peugeot Citroën (now Groupe PSA) in 2013, taking charge of a legal department that was known for its small size relative to both the company’s market...
director & legal counsel | SNA Europe
With a PhD in international law at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Asia and a lecturer in Paris and Thailand between 1993 and 1998, Anne-Laure Nguyen-Fitzgerald left her academic...
Vice President & General Counsel- EMEA France | Alcatel-Lucent
Johan Gerrese, vice president and general counsel at leading telecoms provider Alcatel-Lucent, is one of the most experienced global counsel working in Europe. Over a period of 20 years, Gerrese...
general counsel - reactors and services business group | AREVA Group
Antoine Genevois has over 12 years of understanding of AREVA Group’s business across the USA and Europe, having held a number of roles. During that time he has reorganised the...
deputy general counsel | Renault
Jean-Benoit Devauges joined Renault in 2000 after spells at the Foreign Service, where he spent 15 months in India with the French Foreign Minister, completing the bar exam and then...
general counsel exploration and production | Total
‘Among the number of responsibilities I have had to cope with, in my career in and outside the legal function, the most exciting and rewarding of all has certainly been...
| General Insurance of Cyprus
Formed in 1951 by Bank of Cyprus, General Insurance of Cyprus was the first domestic insurance provider in Cyprus and has been a leading provider ever since. The company maintains...
| Eurobank Capital markets, investment banking, wealth management and strategic and international activities legal division
Eurobank has one of the largest and most highly specialised in-house legal departments in Greece and Cyprus, and includes the capital markets, investment banking, wealth management and strategic and international...
| Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC)
The in-house legal team at CySEC is highly adept at translating EU financial regulatory frameworks into a Cyprus context and other financial oversight activities, including anti-money laundering. It is involved...
| Columbia Shipmanagement
In-house legal advisor Mirka Efthymiadou explains that the Columbia Shipmanagement legal team has expanded and grown with the business and is now four strong. As well as herself, Efthymiadou is...
| Centrofin Management
Centrofin Management’s legal function has been headed by its now general counsel Sophia Tsami since 1996, during which she has amassed an extremely detailed knowledge of legal requirements including, but...
| Aegean Airlines
Aegean Airlines is the flag carrier airline of Greece and the largest Greek airline by total number of passengers carried, by number of destinations served and by fleet size. Aegean...
| A.M. Nomikos Transworld Maritime Agencies
A.M. Nomikos operates a commercial, corporate and ship management service for ship owning entities. The company employs approximately 1,000 staff worldwide on land and sea based operations. The head office...
| SURA Asset Management
Comprised of six lawyers, the Medellín-based regional legal team at SURA Asset Management is tasked with implementing strategic projects and transactions for the company and forming synergies with legal teams...
| Pórticos Ingenieros Civiles
Pórticos Ingenieros Civiles is a construction company located in the city of Medellín, with more than 31 years in business and over than 300 projects such as offices, apartments, warehouses,...
| ISAGEN
One of Colombia’s largest companies in terms of energy generation, the previously state-owned enterprise ISAGEN was sold to Canadian Brookfield Asset Management in 2016 for a sum of COL$6.5tn. Headquartered...
| General Motors Financial
General Motors Financial is the financial services arm of the global automobile manufacturer General Motors. GM Financial provides auto finance across the world, with operations in the US, Canada, Europe,...
| Emgesa
An electric power company that supplies and markets energy throughout Colombia, Emgesa is among the largest companies in the country and the second largest generator of electricity. Belonging to Enel...
| Diageo Colombia
One of the premier alcoholic distillers in the world, and until April 2017 the largest alcoholic beverage company globally by market capitalisation, UK-headquartered Diageo boasts an enviable range of brands....
Vice President, General Counsel and Company Secretary | Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
Ángel Alberto Velandia Rodríguez is general counsel and company secretary at Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (BVC), the stock exchange of Colombia. Velandia Rodriguez joined BVC in 2006 and was...
Legal Manager | British American Tobacco
Although Colombia remains one of Latin America’s largest cigarette markets, the country is increasingly seeing the type of legal challenges that have become common in Europe and the US. Jorge...
Regional Corporate Counsel LAC and Caribbean | Guy Carpenter
A specialist in contract and commercial law, with extensive experience in handling corporate legal aspects and the implementation of corporate compliance policy, Jorge Mario Meneses serves as regional corporate counsel...
General Secretary and Legal Representative | Caracol Television
With 27 years of professional experience in the telecommunications industry in Colombia, Jorge Martinez de Leon is one of the most well established and recognised lawyers in the sector. In...
Legal Manager | Azteca Comunicaciones
Jorge Díaz Gómez is responsible for the legal and regulatory activities and decisions of Azteca Comunicaciones in Colombia. Having been named legal manager two years ago, Díaz Gómez reshuffled his...
General Counsel | Unilever
Jorge De Los Ríos is a legal professional with strong expertise in commercial law, competition law, consumer protection and intellectual property. Currently he oversees the legal function at Unilever, which...
Legal Director | Ciudad Limpia Bogotá
Legal director at the Bogotá arm of the Colombia-based waste management business Ciudad Limpia Bogotá, Jorge Luis Castro has undertaken a successful overhaul of the legal function, restructuring the legal...
Director of International Legal Affairs | Grupo Odinsa
Andrea Eugenia Camargo Niño joined Colombian construction and infrastructure development company Odinsa in early 2015. In a relatively short period of time she has helped to execute a number of...
Vice president and general counsel Asia Pacific | Honeywell, China
A large global conglomerate with an extremely diversified portfolio of interests, Honeywell is perhaps most notable for its high tech solutions for the engineering, defence and aerospace sectors. The company’s...
Legal head and compliance officer | Roche Chile
Upon joining multinational healthcare company Roche in 2015 as legal head and compliance officer for Chile, Jorge Julio has transformed a small legal department of two attorneys into an enthusiastic,...
Vice president of legal risk and secretary | Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S.A. (Bladex)
Jorge Luis Real has spent the last 16 years working for three top multinational banking institutions across both Panama and the United States, accumulating unrivalled expertise in investment and corporate...
Legal affairs manager | Major League Baseball
Jorge Pérez became the legal director for Major League Baseball (MLB) in March 2016, managing legal affairs for the company across the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti...
General counsel | Baxter México, Central America, Caribbean and Venezuela
Having been involved in a plethora of activities from managing the legal department’s annual budget to guiding the career development of its members, Angel Molina was given the role of...
Manager of legal unit | AES Dominicana
Giselle Marie Leger joined AES in 2001 as a legal counsel and in 2014 was promoted to general counsel. In this role Marie Leger is the leader on the legal...
Head of legal / legal manager, Central America and the Caribbean | PepsiCo
Guatemala-based Luis Pedro Jegerlehner is legal manager for PepsiCo in Central America and the Caribbean. He runs a small team of two lawyers with one additional counsel in the Dominican...
General counsel and business integrity officer (Central America and Andean Region) | Unilever
Unilever’s presence across Central America and the Caribbean covers Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad & Tobago. Jorge De Los Ríos, general...
Manager of legal services for the expansion program | Panama Canal Authority
The team that oversees the legal affairs for the expansion of the Panama Canal is headed by Agenor Correa, a legal professional with experience of over 19 years in the...
| Toronto Stock Exchange
The experienced legal team at the Toronto Stock Exchange is led by managing director Julie Shin, an expert in corporate finance, securities law and corporate governance. She leads a team...
| Rogers Communications
With a total revenue of C$144bn, Rogers Communications is a Canadian institution which has a dominant position as the nation’s largest wireless and cable TV provider. Its legal department is...
| Geotab
Geotab is an innovative technology company that is a global leader in fleet management solutions, telematics and Internet of Things connected systems. Geotab’s technology allows fleet owners to manage vehicles...
| George Weston
With its roots dating back to the 1880’s, The George Weston Company is a dominant player in Canada’s consumer products industry. It manages subsidiaries including two large-scale brands, Weston Foods...
| Enbridge
Led by executive vice president and chief legal officer Bob Rooney, Enbridge’s in-house legal team impresses through its expert provision of legal services covering the company’s considerable energy portfolio. The...
| CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants
Founded in Canada in 1976, information technology and business process services firm CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants has now become the country’s largest IT services provider. The company’s internal...
| Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Deborah R. Greenberg, chief legal officer and corporate secretary, leads the in-house legal team of approximately 40 lawyers at the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), a government run organisation...
General counsel | Dream Unlimited Corp
A lawyer with 26 years’ worth of experience in private practice, George Valentini made his move in-house in July 2013 to oversee the legal function at Dream Unlimited, a leading...
President and general counsel | Global Relay
Shannon Rogers started her legal career working on Bay Street in Toronto for a couple of years before realising that she would prefer the commercial exposure of an in-house legal...
Senior vice president, general counsel and public affairs | Bombardier Recreational Products
Martin Langelier is currently chief legal officer and secretary for Bombardier Recreational Products, holding a diverse mix of responsibilities for the management of the company’s global legal and compliance affairs,...
General counsel and vice president legal and business development | ConocoPhillips
Angela Avery’s legal career started in 1994 at the internationally recognised Canadian law firm Bennett Jones. After nearly five years at the firm and a one year spell in the...
| Syngenta Brasil
Employing 1,800 professionals, the Brazilian local subsidiary of Swiss multinational agribusiness Syngenta operates in the country’s main agricultural regions through research centres and experimental stations. As part of the parent...
| MRV Engenharia
MRV Engenharia is the second largest homebuilder and real estate company in Brazil. Founded in 1979, the company is owned by Brazilian billionaire Rubens Menin and is present in more...
| Gerdau
A historic name in Brazilian business, Gerdau’s history dates back to 1901 starting out as a nail factory in Porto Alegre, and has since grown to become the largest producer...
| Bunge Brasil
The global agribusiness and food company Bunge has been operating in Brazil since 1905 and is currently the country’s largest exporter of agricultural products. At the helm of this historic...
Legal general manager | Ipiranga
Oil industry veteran Guido Rogerio Macedo Silveira Filho has represented some of the largest companies in the sector since 1994. He has been with Ipiranga – a subsidiary of Ultrapar...
Vice President Legal | Marfrig Group
Since 2006 Heraldo Geres has been at multinational food company Marfrig Group, where he currently assumes the role of vice president overseeing legal affairs from the company’s base in São...
Legal Director | Carrefour
The Brazilian operations of French multinational supermarket and retail chain Carrefour, the world’s second largest retailer by sales, have played an increasingly significant role in the group’s activities over recent...
Chief Counsel for Global Mining | Vale
Solange Costa, chief counsel for global mining, contracting for Latin America leads a team of three at Vale, the largest mining company in Brazil. Costa has been integral to the...
Head of Legal | Cielo
As one source stated, Louangela Bianchini is a ‘stellar lawyer, putting into practice her long experience of finance law’ as head of legal at Cielo, the largest Brazilian credit and...
General counsel | Vector Limited
‘An excellent lawyer’ with ‘strategic vision’, John Rodger ‘discharges himself with passion, professionalism and a good sense of humour’. He has held a variety of legal and commercial roles during...
Senior legal counsel | CIMIC Group Limited
Appointed to his current position in September 2015, Nigel Lowry previously spent seven years heading the legal section of the Australian lending business in Macquarie’s corporate and asset finance group....
Chief legal counsel | BHP Billiton
Reporting directly to the CEO, Geoff Healy occupies the chief legal counsel position at the flagship Australian mining company, having joined BHP Billiton in June 2013. Prior to this, Healy...
Executive general manager – people, corporate relations and governance | National Roads & Motorists’ Association (NRMA)
‘To succeed, you need to be passionate about what you do and how it contributes to others and to the overall success of your organisation’, Helen Burgess says. ‘The NRMA...
Vice president and general counsel | UTC Building & Industrial Systems - Otis Elevator Korea
Otis Elevator Company is the world’s largest manufacturer of lifts and escalators. Since becoming general counsel, Chae has made concerted efforts to promote a more collaborative working environment through the...
| Future Fund Management Agency
The Future Fund Management Agency (FFMA) was established by the Australian Commonwealth Government in 2006 to invest and administer a series of investment funds, including the Future Fund. The Future...
| Challenger Limited
The legal team of the Australian Securities Exchange listed investment management firm Challenger Limited is part of the combined legal, company secretarial and corporate affairs team and features 19 lawyers....
| Australian Securites Exchange
Led by general counsel and company secretary Alistair Clarkson, the legal team of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) continues a tradition of excellent legal oversight and regulation of the exchange,...
Legal and corporate relationships director | Coca-Cola FEMSA Argentina
Germán Guillermo Pennimpede joined the Argentine operations of Samsung Electronics in autumn 2016 as head of legal, public affairs and compliance for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Although relatively new to...
Director of legal and regulatory affairs | Pampa Energía
Founded in 2005, Pampa Energía is the largest integrated electricity company in Argentina, which through its subsidiaries is engaged in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity to more than...
Corporate vice president of legal services | YPF
Germán Fernández Lahore joined the legal team of Argentine state-owned oil company YPF (Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales) in 2002 and moved into senior management as corporate vice president of legal services...
Legal manager | L’Oréal Argentina
Solange Kurchan has been legal manager at L’Oréal Argentina since 2013. She leads a legal function that provides support across all areas of the company – from consumer and luxury...
Legal counsel | Alstom
Tomas Savage is the legal counsel of Alstom in Argentina. He handles the legal affairs of the train manufacturing division, one of the most challenging and relevant lines of business...
Director of legal and regulatory affairs | Pampa Energía
Pampa Energía is the largest independent energy company in Argentina, with participation in the electricity, oil and gas value chain. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in...
Director and regional counsel | The Walt Disney Company
Having gained a reputation as an extremely well-regarded private practice lawyer with Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal, G. Breuer and Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton in Los Angeles, Augusto Mengelle’s first...
Legal and corporate affairs director for Argentina and Uruguay | Coca-Cola FEMSA
German Guillermo Pennimpede joined Coca-Cola FEMSA in February 2017 as its legal and corporate affairs director, and is responsible for managing the company’s legal, public affairs, corporate communication and sustainability...
Corporate vice president of legal services | YPF
Germán Fernández Lahore, corporate vice president of legal services at YPF, continues to impress at the Argentinian energy giant. YPF is a state owned vertically integrated energy company founded in...
General secretary | LuxairGroup
Gwenn Vanweddingen first joined LuxairGroup as legal counsel in 2010 but left in 2013 to join deSter, a subsidiary of gategroup, in Belgium. Vanweddingen re-joined LuxairGroup in 2016 as assistant...
Legal director | Cosmetics Europe
Cosmetics Europe is deeply involved in various scientific research projects which require significant negotiation of contractual frameworks from the legal department. When Emma Trogen joined Cosmetics Europe in 2013, the...
Head of legal business development M&A and regulation | ENGIE
As the head of legal business development M&A and regulation, Anne-Bérangère Sudraud reports to the director of legal, strategy, regulation and public affairs of Engie Benelux. She possesses strong leadership...
Executive vice president legal, security, EHS, audit, P&T | Umicore
Géraldine Nolens was appointed chief counsel for the group in 2009 and joined the executive committee in 2015. She had a stint in private practice at international law firm Cleary...
General counsel | Royal FloraHolland
Leendert Eijgenraam joined Dutch conglomerate of florists, Royal FloraHolland, as manager of the legal department in 1990. In 2010 he was promoted to general counsel, a role he’s held for...
General counsel | M7 Group
With extensive experience providing legal support and advice in Europe, including Russia and CIS countries, Serge Debrye has gained a reputation for being a business orientated and result driven team...
General counsel | Chemviron
Geneviève Bérubé is a business lawyer with 23 years of experience within large national law firms and multinational corporations. As a Canadian and Belgian lawyer, Bérubé has lived and worked...
Legal manager, shipping and marketing | Fortescue Metals Group
Gemma Stabler serves as legal manager for shipping and marketing at Fortescue Metals Group, a global leader in the iron ore industry. Stabler worked as a senior associate in the...
Acting deputy general counsel – projects | Transport for NSW
Capturing the attention of nominators as well as recently assuming a more senior role within his organisation, Mark Paige has distinguished himself as a member of the Transport for NSW...
Director, legal counsel | BNP Paribas
International finance lawyer Eugene Phua assumed his current position in 2015 and has primary responsibility for BNP Paribas’s active loan capital markets, real estate and supply chain finance groups in...
Regional legal director | Heineken Asia Pacific
Having been with Heineken since 2001, Geraldine Lim reflects on the journey she has made along with the company in this period. It is fair to say her role has...
Head of management and development department | Total
Sabine d’Angély Lavail has been making waves in the Total legal department for over a decade, originally joining the oil “supermajor” in 2006. Formerly head of the management and development...
Global head of business and legal affairs | iflix
iflix, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, is the world’s leading entertainment service for emerging markets. Starting out as a corporate lawyer at Allen & Overy before moving in-house to Sky, Emily...
Senior corporate counsel | Palo Alto Networks
Formerly Asia Pacific legal director for Juniper Networks, in February 2018 Stephan Engelmann took on a demanding new role with Palo Alto Networks, being the regional counsel and tasked with...
General counsel | Delfi Limited
Gerald Chew has been a major component of Delfi Limited’s success since being installed as its first general counsel, law and corporate affairs all the way back in 2005. While...
General counsel | Usiminas
One of the largest steel producers in Latin America, Brazil based Usiminas is one of the preeminent steel producers, researchers and consultants in the region. Bruno Lage de Araujo Paulino...
General counsel | Fibria Celulose
Mariangela Daniele Maruishi Bartz is an expert in-house lawyer with eighteen years of experience in the legal field at leading Brazilian companies Vale and Fibria Celulose, and law firms in...
The Unilever Ghana-Nigeria cluster legal department operates a business partnering model comprising of six lawyers and one non-lawyer embedded within different business divisions under the supervision of Abidemi Ademola, the...
| Tiger Brands
Tiger Brands is a major South African based global fast moving consumer goods company. Founded in 1921 and formerly named Tiger Oats, the company has manufacturing centres in Nigeria, Cameroon,...
| Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered’s presence in Nigeria dates back to the early 1960’s where it had major stakes in various iterations of Standard Chartered Nigeria, and the First Bank of Nigeria, but...
| SHI-MCI FZE (a subsidiary of Samsung Heavy Industries Nigeria)
Oil and gas EPC company SHI-MCI FZE offers the largest fabrication and integration facilities in Africa. Equipped with unparalleled technologies and cutting-edge facilities, the company is on the way to...
| Rendeavour (Nigeria)
As Africa’s largest urban land developer, Rendeavour has over 12,000 hectares of visionary projects in the structural growth trajectories of the main cities in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and Democratic...
| Orange Egypt
As the first mobile network operator in Egypt, founded in 1998, Orange provides voice and data exchange services, as well as 4G, 3G and broadband internet. The legal team lead...
Chief legal officer | Marfrig Group
Heraldo Geres continues to impress as chief legal officer for Marfrig Group, a major multi-national food company specialising in meat products including Brazilian beef. A lawyer with 25 years experience...
General counsel, compliance and corporate affairs director Brazil | Grupo Lala
Sandra Gebara Boni began her career working almost exclusively for Group Saint Gobain covering all legal areas. After 11 years, she moved to Grupo Pão de Açúcar (now Groupe Casino)...
Managing director – head of legal Brazil | Goldman Sachs
Ricardo Genis Mourão joined Goldman Sachs in 2011 and was named managing director in 2015. Prior to joining the firm, Mourão was an external counsel in banking and securities in...
General counsel | CIELO
Louangela Bianchini C. Colquhoun started her career as a professor at a federal public university teaching public law and other subjects. During this time she was invited to participate in...
| Nigerian Stock Exchange
Founded in 1960, the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) services the largest economy in Africa and is an automated exchange providing listing and trading services, as well as electronic clearing, settlement...
| Nigerian Bottling Company
The in-house legal team at the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) consists of five highly skilled lawyers led by Sade Morgan, legal, public affairs and communications director, a seasoned lawyer who...
| Nestlé Nigeria
Nestlé Nigeria is part of Nestlé’s Central and West African division of the Swiss multinational food and beverage company. Operating as the hub for Central and West Africa, Nestlé Nigeria...
| Media General Ghana
A media and communications company which owns and manages television, radio and other media entities, Media General Ghana operates some of the industry’s largest and diversified businesses and its growing...
| Lafarge Africa Plc (LAP)
Twelve individuals strong and responsible for a diverse range of business units across a very large geographical area, the Lafarge Africa Plc (LAP)’s legal team has spearheaded a number of...
| Kenya Tea Development Agency Holdings (KTDA)
The legal function at KTDA, one of the largest private tea management agencies in Kenya, is led by assistant general manager of legal and regulatory affairs Susan Musyoka and currently...
| Huawei Nigeria
Chinese multinational, telecommunications equipment and services company Huawei has established its business in Nigeria with plans to benefit from the growing demand of mobile phone usage across Africa. With more...
| Gemfields
Gemfields is focused on mining coloured gemstones in Africa, with its primary assets located in Zambia and Mozambique, exploration activities elsewhere in Africa and its primary listing on the JSE....
| GE Africa
The legal department of GE Africa is an expert force within the energy and utilities industry across Sub-Saharan Africa, with a long history of excellence across the region in the...
| ExxonMobil Nigeria
The in-house legal team at ExxonMobil Nigeria is made up of highly experienced and talented lawyers who operate across the ExxonMobil group affiliate companies and cover the entire realm of...
| Engen
Fiona Gumede, general manager and company secretary, legal and security, leads a top-notch team consisting of ten lawyers, four paralegals, and two compliance specialists at Engen. The department provides legal...
General manager legal | Ipiranga
Guido Rogerio Macedo Silveira Filho has served as general manager legal at Ipiranga Produtos de Petróleo since 2002, having previously worked as a lawyer in the company from 1990 to...
| Diageo
Diageo produces some of the world’s most iconic drink brands and Africa makes up 12% of the multinational’s net global sales, a sizeable proportion which its legal team in the...
| Chevron Nigeria
General counsel Lucky Nengite, leads the legal team at Chevron Nigeria (CNL) comprised of 12 lawyers and three non-lawyers. Each CNL lawyer is assigned responsibility as the primary legal contact...
| AXA Mansard (Nigeria)
AXA Mansard is the Nigerian subsidiary of the large multinational insurance giant AXA Insurance, and as a combination with the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria (NAICOM) has been operating in...
Senior legal counsel, Marine Americas | Fugro
Fugro is the world’s leading, independent provider of geo-intelligence and asset integrity solutions for large constructions, infrastructure and natural resources. The company has been operating in Brazil for over 20...
Group general counsel | Novartis
Occupying a prestigious position in the in-house legal market, Shannon Thyme Klinger was appointed group general counsel of Novartis, the major Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company, in June 2018 and is...
Group legal innovation officer | Novartis
As the group legal innovation officer, Maurus Schreyvogel drives peak in-house legal department performance and accelerates functional innovation. At Novartis, his focus is on the corporate legal department’s best practices...
Head legal and compliance | Banque Profil de Gestion
Flavio Santangelo has worked in various banks within legal and compliance positions, all of which has involved him holding a large degree of responsibility. He currently serves as head of...
Legal director EMEA | Ralph Lauren
An experienced legal director with a history of working in the fashion industry, Pascal Geneau is skilled in international law, competition law, joint ventures, litigation and employment law. Geneau joined...
Group chief legal officer | Audemars Piguet
As group head of the legal function at watch-making manufacturer, Audemars Pigeut, Nicolas Burgener manages and supervises the group legal affairs department of seven lawyers. Burgener has shown remarkable cross-practice...
Senior executive vice president and general counsel | Kotak Mahindra Bank
Kotak Mahindra Bank was converted as a Bank from an existing non-banking financial company (NBFC). The existing businesses of the NBFC continued in the bank and new businesses like branch...
Executive vice president, head legal | SBI Card
With exposure in both litigation and the transactional side of law through his experience in private practice as litigation counsel, Ugen Tashi Bhutia joined SBI Card as head of the...
| Volkswagen PoznaŃ
The seven-strong legal department at Volkswagen Poznań is led by head of legal and public policy Tobiasz Adam Kowalczyk, and covers a broad base of legal matters for the Volkswagen...
Alliance general counsel | Renault Nissan India
Since July 2017, Yogesh Wadhwa has served as Alliance General Counsel at Renault Nissan – India, the Indian subsidiaries of the French -Japanese strategic partnership between the two global automobile...
| Richter Gedeon
Founded in 1901, Richter Gedeon is a Hungarian pharmaceutical institution and a multinational corporation with its headquarters in Budapest, whose products are distributed to over 100 countries. Employing 11,000 people...
| Idea Getin Leasing
The journey of Idea Getin Leasing’s legal team started in 2013 when a small legal team was formed at VB Leasing Polska – a medium-sized leasing company belonging to the...
| Getback Recovery Romania
Having carved out an enviable niche in the Romanian debt recovery market since its inception in 2014, GetBACK Recovery Romania is still a growing player in the sector. It has...
With some of the world’s best known brands in its portfolio including Guinness, Smirnoff and Ciroc, global alcoholic drinks producer Diageo has a worldwide presence including notable operations in Central...
| Posten Norge
Posten Norge, which is also known as Norway Post, is the name of the Norwegian postal service and is owned and governed by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications....
Amgen is a leading US-headquartered biotechnology company that operates in a highly innovative industry, where legal issues often arise before adequate and effective regulation is created. Given the multitude of...
| Shearwater GeoServices Norway
Established as a joint venture in 2016 by GC Rieber Shipping and Rasmussengruppen, Shearwater GeoServices is a seismic exploration company that provides geophysical services. The newly formed company benefits from...
Corporate legal manager | Grupo Motta Servicios
Clarissa Surgeon’s legal career has spanned close to 20 years, with positions in law firms and corporations in Panama City, New York and Brussels, working across various legal fields, primarily...
Legal head of Central America and Caribbean | Novartis
Jorge Romo has served as legal head of Novartis since 2013, after an in-house career that has seen him at the top of the pharmaceutical industry at both Fedefarma and...
| Forsvarsmateriell (Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency)
A legal team made up of 12 professionals including six lawyers, the legal department working on behalf of the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) operates with the following mantra according...
| Pronova BioPharma Norge
As part of its development into a world leader within the global omega-3 market, German chemical company BASF bought Pronova BioPharma in 2013 before fully integrating the newly acquired company...
Legal counsel | Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo (RECOPE)
Olger Méndez Rojas is the longstanding lawyer at RECOPE, one of Central America’s biggest companies in terms of annual sales revenues. To match its reputation as a leading company in...
| Swedbank Norge
The legal team at Swedbank Norge carries out all legal guidance and organisation for the Stockholm-headquartered full service bank’s operations in Norway. In his post since 2014, Thomas Rygg Hannestad...
| Norges Bank
Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway, provides services for the economic stability of Norway by regulating monetary policy and is responsible for the organisation of robust and efficient payment...
Legal manager | Energuate
In 2004 Jorge Mario Colindres Sandoval started working at Energuate, Guatemala’s largest power distribution company, serving over 1.6 million regulated consumers, initially as the internal legal advisor. From 2004-2008, his...
| Gjensidige Forsikring
A Norwegian insurance company founded in 1923 but with history dating back to the early 19th century, Gjensidige Forsikring today provides a variety of offerings to its customers including a...
| Danske Bank Norge
Danske Bank Norge, originally named Fokus Bank, is the Norwegian operation of the Danish Danske Bank. The bank was founded in 1859 and is one of the largest banks in...
| Total E&P Norge
Multinational Total E&P Norge is an oil and gas exploration and production company based on the Norwegian continental shelf. It holds exploration licenses in the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea,...
| Petroleum Geo-Services
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) is a leading marine seismic survey and data processing company operating in all of the major oil and natural gas offshore basins worldwide and is headquartered in...
| Volkswagen
Vying with Toyota for the title of largest car manufacturer in the world, Volkswagen is consistently committed to innovation and is in the midst of a major shift in philosophy...
| UBS Asset Management
Markus Ratz, head of legal transactions EMEA for UBS Asset Management has been taking an innovative approach to its use of external counsel: ‘We decided to set up an exclusive...
| Open Xchange Group
Constructed from scratch over the past two years, general counsel Maxim Letski reports that the Open Xchange legal department is now a ‘highly specialised and dynamic legal team covering all...
| Eni Norge
Eni is an Italian-headquartered major energy company, and whose Norwegian subsidiary – Eni Norge – was first founded in 1965. The company has had a major impact in the history...
| ConocoPhillips Norge
Primarily active in petroleum exploration and production, ConocoPhillips is one of the largest foreign operators on the Norwegian continental shelf. Amongst its 1,850 employees is the company’s legal department which...
| Krüger Group
Established in 2015, the KRÜGER Group legal team has made an undoubtedly positive impact on the company’s fortunes since then, establishing itself successfully within the business. General counsel and head...
| Coop Norge
Producing an annual revenue figure of NOK 30.04bn, the historic Oslo-headquartered Coop Norge is a flagship cooperative that has a number of business concerns in the retail sector. Considering the...
| JLL Germany
Team lead for German legal and compliance for Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Antonios Kotsis explains that the function has been emphasising flexible working methods of late, with team members empowered...
| ING Germany Wholesale Banking Legal
Dennis Heidschmidt’s wholesale banking legal team for ING Germany consists of 18 lawyers and is a strong player in the German financial legal sector. Heidschmidt speaks incredibly highly of his...
| Generali Deutschland
The legal team of Germany’s second-largest insurance company, Generali Deutschland, saw movement among its senior personnel in recent months as October 2017 saw Dr Heike Ottemann-Toyza made general counsel, bringing...
| GEA Group
Global equipment and process technology provider for the food industry and a wide range of industries, GEA Group operates with 18,000 employees worldwide as of December 31, 2017. Generating around...
| DEGES
With a total project volume of complex infrastructure projects under management of approximately €24.5bn, state-owned firm DEGES goes about its business in an interdisciplinary manner, meaning that – as team...
| Boehringer Ingelheim
Maintaining the safe operation of one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies requires its legal team to possess both breadth and depth of legal knowledge and specialist skills to succeed...
| Axel Springer
Axel Springer has become Europe’s leading digital publisher, with numerous multimedia known brands such as Bild, Die Welt and Fakt. It currently employees over 15,000 people in more than 40...
| Moscow Exchange
As the largest exchange group in Russia, the Moscow Exchange operates trading markets in equities, bonds, derivatives, the foreign exchange market, money markets and precious metals. Formed in 2011 as...
General counsel and company secretary | Ausgrid
Nigel Lowry is the current general counsel of Ausgrid, the electricity distribution company which owns, maintains and operates electrical networks supplying 1.7 million customers in Sydney, the Central Coast and...
Head of privacy | Rio Tinto
Being an Anglo-Australian firm and a leading multinational materials and mining corporation in operation for almost 150 years, Rio Tinto has a long and well established history as one of...
| Dragages Hong Kong
A subsidiary of French international construction giant Bouygues Construction, Dragages has been operating in Hong Kong for more than 60 years and in its portfolio is a series of landmarks...
| Genting Group
Genting Hong Kong is a world leading leisure, hospitality and entertainment company specialising in both cruise lines and resorts. Its subsidiaries include Star Cruises, Dream Cruises and Crystal Cruises, along...
| Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG)
GEG is a multinational hotel, casino, and entertainment company worth US$6.5bn and listed on the Forbes 2000. The company operates the largest landholding in Macau, and is continually expanding internationally,...
| Och-Ziff Capital Management HK Ltd
Oz Management’s Asia-Pacific team is responsible for advising on and managing all legal, regulatory, compliance and reputational risk matters in the region. David Zeiden, general counsel and chief operating officer...
| Huarong Rongde (Hong Kong) Investment Management
Nancy Yang (Na) is the general counsel and head of legal and compliance at Huarong Rongde (Hong Kong) Investment Management, a Hong Kong subsidiary of the Sino-foreign joint venture established...
| Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Group (HKEX)
HKEX is the operator of exchanges and clearing houses in Hong Kong, and one of the largest exchange groups in terms of market capitalisation in the world. It operates securities...
| Cheetah Investment Management
Cheetah Investment Management is a Hong Kong-based hedge fund and private equity firm founded in 1993, focusing particularly on long term investments starting from a low base using local expertise...
| SURA Asset Management
Grupo SURA is the holding company of the Colombian financial conglomerate Conglomerado Financiero SURA-Bancolombia, as well as the controlling company of the Grupo SURA business group (“Grupo Empresarial SURA”) which...
| Schlumberger
Schlumberger has a long history in Colombia and across Latin America, with its first oil field electric log performed by the company at the Tabatinga field in 1938. The company...
| Refinería de Cartagena
Refinería de Cartagena’s (RDC) in-house legal department, led by legal vice president Herman Eduardo Galan, is comprised of 24 highly talented lawyers and is structured into four areas. These are...
| ISAGEN
The legal department at ISAGEN, a leading renewable energy company in Colombia that operates six thermal and hydroelectric plants and a thriving commercial energy business, is comprised of industry specialist...
| General Motors Financial (GMF)
General Motors Financial is the financial services arm of the global automobile manufacturer General Motors, providing automobile finance across the world with operations in the US, Canada, China, Indonesia, Australia...
| Diageo Colombia
Diageo is the number one premier alcoholic distiller in the world boasting an enviable range of brands with more than 180 different products. The company’s operation in Colombia is one...
| SAIC General Motors
SAIC General Motors was born from a joint venture between US car maker General Motors Company and SAIC Motor, manufacturing and selling known brands such as Chevrolet, Buick and Cadillac...
| Gensler
Global design firm, Gensler, has 6,000 practitioners across 46 offices in 16 countries worldwide and has a total revenue of US$1.18bn. In China, the company’s legal team is led by...
| Geely
Established in 1986 and launched in 1997, Geely is a global automotive group based in the city Hangzhou, consisting of many well-known international automotive brands including Geely Auto, Lynk &...
| China Cinda Asset Management
China Cinda Asset Management’s legal team is regarded as among the very best in the Chinese market, winning an industry award for best in-house legal team in the state-owned enterprise...
| Emirates General Petroleum Corporation (EMARAT)
Founded in 1980 and based in Dubai, Emirates General Petroleum Corporation (EMARAT) has established a strong presence in the local markets for petroleum retailing, aviation refuelling, lubricants marketing, and terminal...
| GEMS Education Dubai
GEMS Education Dubai, founded by Indian-born billionaire and noted philanthropist Sunny Varkey, is one of the foremost international education companies in the world. It boasts over 47 schools across the...
| UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA)
Providing regulatory oversight to one of the busiest and most rapidly expanding aviation sectors in the entire world is no mean feat, with UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) being...
| Kuehne + Nagel Management MEA
Growing from a single lawyer in 2011 into a team of five lawyers in 2018 and moving the legal department at Kuehne + Nagel Management MEA from the state of...
| Gemstone Real Estate Development
The Gemstone Real Estate Development legal team is based around a core of highly skilled lawyers. As well as chief legal officer Aasma Khan, whose importance to the group is...
| GE Middle East North Africa and Turkey
Bruce McAlister, general counsel global growth and MENAT, leads the legal team responsible for Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, having been with GE for 18 years. McAlister has overall...
| Volkswagen Group Italia
Volkswagen Group Italia imports cars, spare parts and accessories for Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. The legal team is tasked with the legal management related to the...
| Geox
Known for its revolutionary waterproof and breathable clothes manufacturing, Geox is an Italian clothing and shoe brand that has been at the forefront of fashion innovation since its founding in...
| Generali Italia
The general counsel area of Generali Italia is responsible, as a whole, for legal and corporate supervision for all “Country Italia companies”, which are Generali Group companies that have registered...
| Fiditalia (Societè Generale Group)
Fiditalia is a leading Italian financial company specialised in the consumer credit sector, which is owned by French multinational investment bank and financial services company Societè Generale Group. The legal...
| Boehringer Ingelheim Italia
The Boehringer Ingelheim Italia legal team is made up of four lawyers, dedicated respectively to the company’s human pharma business, the animal health business and to the other enabling functions...
| Assicurazioni Generali
Deemed as one of the most significant players in the global insurance and financial products market, Assicurazioni Generali is the largest Italian insurance company in Italy and third largest in...
| Von Roll Management
Head of corporate legal and group general counsel Michael Weigerstorfer leads the in-house legal team at Von Roll Management, the managing company of the ultimate holding company Von Roll Holding...
| Syngenta
The legal team at Syngenta plays a significant role in the crop protection goals of the leading agricultural company, using their legal, IP and patent and trademark expertise to support...
| Stragen Pharma
Stragen Pharma is an international, privately held healthcare company focused on the development, registration and worldwide distribution of pharmaceutical specialities for women’s health, hospital supplies, consumer health products and new...
| Pictet Asset Management
With offices in 17 countries and with business activities in 50 countries, the Pictet Asset management legal team is spread across Geneva, Luxembourg, London and Hong Kong with heads of...
| LafargeHolcim
Head legal and compliance Keith Carr leads the LafargeHolcim legal team. The team is at the forefront of providing legal advice in the area of global building materials and solutions,...
| Kuehne + Nagel Management
The Kuehne + Nagel Group has a long established history since 1890. It has been headquartered and SIX stock-exchange listed in Switzerland for decades. The Group has evolved from a...
| HERITAGE B B.V.
HERITAGE B is a family-owned industrial holding with two business activities: at present TEKA and THIELMANN, with intentions to grow by setting up more business activities in the future. HERITAGE...
| Generali Schweiz
The in-house legal team at Generali Switzerland, the international insurance company, is led by experienced general counsel Alexander Lacher, since April 2018, and is a major innovative force within the...
| GE Power
Energy giant GE Power creates a third of the world’s electricity, and amasses technology that equips 90% of power transmission utilities worldwide. Owned by General Electric, the company has been...
| Amgen
The Amgen legal team is a highly experienced department, with the average lawyer in the team possessing between 10 and twenty years of professional experience. The team, known as the...
General counsel, turbomachinery and process solutions | Baker Hughes – a GE company
Georgia Magno is a dual qualified lawyer, having been admitted to the bar in Italy and the US with hands-on experience in civil law and common law jurisdiction around the...
Vice president and chief legal officer EMEA | Whirlpool
An in-house lawyer with extensive international, commercial and compliance experience, Tanya Jaeger de Foras serves as the vice president and chief legal officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa for...
Head of legal and corporate affairs and privacy | Fondo Italiano d'Investimento SGR
Gennaro Imbimbo has been the head of legal and corporate affairs and privacy at Fondo Italiano d’Investimento SGR since July 2011. He graduated from the University of Naples Federico II...
Head of legal, company secretary and regulatory advice | Aviva
Before joining Aviva, Luca Gentile worked for public notaries and for top law firms in Italy. In 2009 he “crossed over” to the in-house sector, after being an external advisor...
Country manager and senior legal counsel Italy | Airbnb
An in-house lawyer with an abundance of regulatory and technology expertise accrued over the years, Matteo Frigerio has a true passion for new technologies regulation, combined with an impressive track...
Legal and compliance director | Axpo Italia
Stefano Brogelli’s first experience as an in-house counsel was at Asja Ambiente Italia, a medium sized company active in renewable energy, and was a very instructive one. There he had...
| Trinity College Dublin
The contracts office at Trinity College Dublin has a team of ten members and is led by the head of research contracts Mary Tracey, together with the deputy head of...
| Project Management Group
Project Management Group is a leading multinational construction and project delivery company operating across Europe, the US and Asia. Over its 45 year history, the company has been involved in...
| SSG Capital Management (SSG)
SSG is an alternative asset manager focused on investing in credit and special situations with over US$5bn assets under management. Richard Yee is the managing director and general counsel leading...
| Oasis Management
Oasis Management is a private investment fund management company which manages global, market neutral, multi-strategy funds with a primary focus on Asia. Oasis has operated its office in Hong Kong...
| Dragages Hong Kong
As a member of Bouygues Construction Group, Dragages came to Hong Kong more than 60 years ago. With a track record of successful projects, the company is today recognised as...
| CSFG International Asset Management
China Shandong Hi-Speed Financial Group (CSFG), the parent of CSFG International Asset Management, is a financial holding institution listed on the main board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange since April...
| China Orient Asset Management (International) Holding
Described by a nominator as ‘technically sound with strong business skills to boot’, head of legal at China Orient Asset Management (International) Holding Jin Zhai has oversight of all of...
| Amgen - Hong Kong
Headquartered in Hong Kong, Amgen’s Japan and Asia Pacific (JAPAC) region focuses on bringing innovative medicines to help patients across 14 markets, including China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia and Southeast...
| National Asset Management Agency
The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) has one of the largest in-house legal teams in Ireland, with 48 individuals across four divisions: residential delivery; deleveraging; litigation, asset management and investments;...
| Société Générale
Société Générale’s in-house legal team has been a major component of its success for many years, and enjoys excellent coordination with senior management through group general counsel Dominique Bourrinet. The...
| Schlumberger
Schlumberger’s expert legal team was nominated by sources in both the in-house and private practice legal worlds, evincing widespread knowledge of its high standards. Senior legal team members are part...
| Orange Business Services
One of the best-regarded legal functions in France, Orange Business Services received multiple nominations from contemporary in-house legal staff from other teams spoken to in this year’s GC Powerlist, which...
| Orange
Coordination between the legal team and executive management has always been particularly strong at Orange, and is evidenced by former legal director Nicolas Guérin being made secretary general and secretary...
| Ivanhoé Cambridge Europe
Ivanhoé Cambridge, the real estate subsidiary of La Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec, has a six-person legal team located in Luxembourg and Paris, where legal head for Europe...
| Ingenico
Global financial technology leader Ingenico has innovation at the very heart of its business proposition, and its diverse and well-resourced legal function has a correspondingly forward-thinking outlook. It has recently...
| GEODIS
Led by Éric Boré and under the supervision of the group corporate secretary Stéphane Cassagne, the GEODIS legal team has 25 individuals among its ranks, organised under legal managers each...
| Eiffage
Construction powerhouse Eiffage possesses an expert legal team composed of both subject matter experts and versatile generalists. Among a number of projects which have borne fruit in recent months include...
| Capgemini
Group general counsel and group executive committee member Maria Pernas leads the legal team of Capgemini that contains approximately 200 lawyers, data protection officers and support staff worldwide. Operating on...
| Diageo
Diageo’s ownership of major Irish brands Guinness and Baileys Irish Cream means it occupies a special place in the Irish business landscape. Indeed, regional counsel, Richard Kindred mentions that perhaps...
General counsel, head of group legal and governance | IKEA
Kurt-Jörgen Olsson has been in the role of general counsel, head of group legal and governance at IKEA since 2012, and has consolidated his reputation of considerable experience and talent...
General counsel | Sweco
Since 2011, Lisa Lagerwall has presided over the general counsel role of Sweco, the Nasdaq Stockholm listed leading engineering and architecture consultancy with approximately 14,500 employees across 14 countries and...
Senior vice president, general counsel | Epiroc
In 2017 Atlas Copco, the Swedish leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions, announced its plans to split its group into two separate companies. Atlas Copco is the business that focuses...
General counsel | Husqvarna
‘We must strive to have a deep understanding of the business, and to maintain sufficient internal competence and bandwidth to handle frequently recurring matters’, says Brian Belanger, general counsel of...
Corporate counsel international | The Brink’s Company
Jorge Zemborain is described as ‘an outstanding lawyer . . . smart, committed, extremely efficient [and] a great team leader’ by one nominator. Since 2010 he has overseen legal operations...
Senior vice president and general counsel for Hispanic Enterprises and Content | NBCUniversal
Described by one senior law firm partner as ‘one of the strongest general counsel I have ever worked with’, Ana Siegel received a wide range of nominations for her work...
Vice president and associate regional counsel | Turner Broadcasting System Latin America
Atlanta-based Astrid Seijas McGeeney is vice president and associate general counsel for Turner Latin America. She oversees all legal matters across Latin America, including the acquisition of new content for...
General counsel Latin America and global channel services | 3M Company
Based at 3M’s Minneapolis headquarters, Jorge Fernández González is responsible for the company’s legal operations in Latin America and holds parallel responsibility for all non-US regions as legal head of...
Group vice president, regional legal officer Americas | ISS
One of the most impressive things about multinational service provider ISS is that in spite of its size – revenues in 2016 were 79bn Danish Kroner, or around $12bn –...
| Välinge Innovation
Director of legal affairs Marcus Palm oversees the internal legal department of building materials company Välinge, and the department of five lawyers has bountiful experience and knowledge in its ranks....
| SAES Getters
Established in 1940 by Tuscan engineer Ernesto Gabrielli, SAES Group is an electrical and scientific components focused on inventing and manufacturing advanced functional materials. In their 70 year history SAES...
| Geox
Italian shoe brand and clothes manufacturer of waterproof and breathable fabrics Geox have consistently invested in innovation ever since the company’s founding year of 1995. The Geox head offices comprise...
| GE Capital – Industrial Finance
The Industrial Finance arm of GE Capital provides financing solutions to GE Industrial businesses and their global customers through a wide range of products and financing solutions. Emiliano Verniero is...
| ERG Power Generation
ERG Power Generation is a manufacturer of electricity from clean, renewable sustainable sources, with a history spanning over eighty years. In the recent past the company has completed a radical...
| Banca Generali
Banca Generali is a leading Italian asset protection and private banking asset management company with over 1280 financial planners and about 420 private bankers. Part of Generali Group, the bank...
| Banca Carige
Founded in 1483, Banca Carige is one of Italy’s largest banks holding €26.1bn of assets. Made up of a team of experienced lawyers, litigation managers and compliance specialists, the legal...
| Bolsa Nacional de Valores de Costa Rica (National Stock Exchange of Costa Rica)
Characterised by strong elements of teamwork, knowledge of the company and efficient use of time, the legal team of Bolsa Nacional de Valores de Costa Rica consistently meet the demands...
| Assicurazioni Generali – Group Strategic Legal Affairs
Italy’s largest insurance company and one of the biggest global players in the industry, Assicurazioni Generali requires comprehensive protection in its high value and business enabling financial transactions it undertakes....
| Assicurazioni Generali – Group Legal Affairs
Providing general legal advice and support in addition to supporting group level litigation as well as the specialist group intellectual property, antitrust and labour legal affairs and group strategic legal...
| Assicurazioni Generali – Group Intellectual Property, Antitrust and Labour Legal Affairs
In his capacity as head of group intellectual property, antitrust and labour legal affairs at Assicurazioni Generali, one of Italy’s most prestigious companies, Furio Curri leads a team of five...
| Banco General
Panama’s position as the banking hub of Central America looks set to continue, with the nation featuring almost half of the top 100 ranking companies compiled by a banking intelligence...
| Amzak Capital Management
General counsel Beatriz Beltranena oversees a team of three at the multifaceted Salvadorian capital and commercial investment firm Amzak Capital Management. The team supports Amzak’s abundance of private equity investments...
Senior attorney | IBM México
Gerardo Sepulveda is described by nominators as a ‘unique’ type of lawyer who is ‘innovative and always finding a way to get the job done’. Currently serving as the leading...
Legal, compliance and quality director (BACIS) | Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk’s legal, compliance and quality director in Russia and CIS, Sergey Viktorov established the regional legal department from the ground up, as the former legal team had experienced a...
Regional legal counsel Russia and CIS | Abbott Laboratories
Since leaving behind her high-profile private practice career, culminating in a position as a senior associate with Marks & Sokolov, Natalya Thotahewage has gone through a number of in-house legal...
Group legal counsel | Ricoh Rus
From a value perspective, Evgenia Solomentseva has developed a strong legal department at Ricoh’s business in Russia, by hiring a team of specialists who support all spheres of the company’s...
Head of Legal | Don- Story
Head of legal at one of the best known and fastest growing developers in the Moscow property market, Ekaterina Regeda receives praise from nominators for her excellent transactional work. In...
Legal director | Lenta
Sergey Prokofiev is the current legal director for Lenta, one of the largest retail chains in Russia, having joined the company in 2012 with the objective to oversee all aspects...
Head of legal department | Exclases Holdings
Directly involved in formulating the strategy of Exclases Holdings, a distributor of Leonardo (formerly AgustaWestland) helicopters in Russia, Sergey Potanin has recently made his mark on the company by implementing...
Head of legal directorate | GlavUpDK (entity under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
In charge of a relatively large legal team at GlavUpDK, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ administration for diplomatic corps, Evgeny Moskovets has successfully overhauled the legal department, introducing important structural...
Chief legal counsel | Grupo Aval
Jorge Adrián Rincón Plata started his career after completing a LLM in international business law from Queen Mary University of London, as a lawyer at the Banco de Bogotá, and...
Legal and corporate affairs director | Rusagro
Rusagro is the largest vertically integrated agriculture industry holding company in Russia and occupies the leading positions in sugar, pork, crop, oil and fats production in the country. Headquartered in...
General counsel | Sporveien Oslo
Responsible for legal, compliance and corporate governance at Sporveien Group, Christina Wiggen has been continuously noted by peers in the region for her all round competence and diligence in the...
Assistant general counsel - Latin America and Caribbean | Guy Carpenter
Jorge M. Meneses is a corporate lawyer with more than 14 years of experience in leading international companies in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region with multidisciplinary knowledge focused...
General counsel | CGI Norge
Per Anders Vaagenes serves as the only lawyer in CGI Norge, providing legal support to the 300 employees of the company, all of whom require approval from legal on a...
Head of legal | Bashspirt
Distinguished head of legal of Bashspirt Sergey Isanov has over 16 years of experience in advising in the food manufacturing, wholesale and retail sector at one of the largest Russian...
General counsel | Norwegian Export Credit Guarantee Agency (GIEK)
In his current role as general counsel for Norwegian Export Credit Guarantee Agency (GEIK), Ståle Torgersbråten leads the largest internal department in GIEK consisting of 15 lawyers and legal employees....
Legal director | Caracol Radio
Since its founding in 1948, Caracol Radio has become one of Colombia’s largest and most popular radio networks with a portfolio of leading stations. Jorge Alberto Diaz Gomez joined the...
Legal director | Total E&P Norge
Total E&P Norge was created in 1999 from a merger of Total, Fina and Elf. Today it contributes approximately 12% of Total Group’s entire oil and gas production. Heading a...
General counsel | Borregaard
Sveinung Heggen was appointed as general counsel for Borregaard, a Norway-based company engaged in bio-refineries, in January 2013. In his current role he is responsible for all legal matters in...
| Siemens
Established in Norway since 1898, the German multinational company Siemens has a number of business operations today in the country ranging from gas and wind power to power generation services...
Legal director - financial issues | Grupo Odinsa
Odinsa, an infrastructure construction company and a subsidiary of Grupo Argos, is a Colombian company dedicated to the structuring, promotion, management and development of road and airport infrastructure projects focusing...
Legal Counsel – Senior business developer | Gjensidige Forsikring
Consistently praised by peers in the region, Simen Aasen Engebretsen has made his mark both on corporate and structuring issues throughout the business. Described as ‘proactive’ at handling complex legal...
General counsel Central America and Andean region | Unilever
With extensive academic experience in financial and commercial law as a professor of competition and international procurement law at the Externado de Colombia University, Rossario University and Pontifical Javeriana University,...
Executive vice president, general counsel and chief corporate affairs officer | Telenor
Wenche Agerup moved in-house in 1993 after a successful three year spell at law fi rm Thommessen, Krefting, Greve & Lund. She made the move having worked closely with in-house...
Vice president and legal counsel | Deutsche Bank
Previously a private practice lawyer with Topaloğlu and an in-house counsel for Garanti Bankası, Özge Sanioğlu moved to Deutsche Bank in 2012, and received a quick promotion to vice president...
Deputy legal counsel - legal department | Garanti Emeklilik
Part of Garanti Bank, Turkey’s second largest private bank, Garanti Emeklilik has become a domestic market leader in the provision of pensions and insurance in a short space of time....
Senior legal counsel | Mondelēz International Turkey
Since joining Mondelēz International Turkey in 2011, Özge Gülşen-Kösem has adapted the legal function’s approach to new technology and has demonstrated innovative thinking to find ways to bring a standardised...
| GE India
GE is the world’s digital industrial company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions. GE India works on the best technologies and toughest challenges to create tailor made solutions for...
| ICICI Lombard General Insurance Limited
Supporting one of the leading private sector general insurance companies in India, ICICI Lombard’s award-winning legal team is made up of 144 lawyers, out of which 123 are legal professionals...
| Volkswagen Group Sales India
Volkswagen Group Sales India retains a six-person legal team, led by head of legal Vijay Kamath and supported ably by the next most senior lawyer in the team, assistant general...
Director, head of legal and corporate affairs | ING Bank Amsterdam Bucharest Branch
Ioana Regenbogen is the director and head of legal and corporate affairs for ING Bank Amsterdam Bucharest Branch, the Romanian company that operates as a branch of Dutch multinational financial...
General counsel | OpenJaw Technologies
Gemma Neylon is an in-house lawyer with a formidable academic record. Since 2011 she has been general counsel at OpenJaw Technologies, a company that transforms travel companies into travel retailers...
Deputy CEO, director of legal and corporate affairs | Naftna Industrija Srbije
As deputy CEO, director of legal and corporate affairs for Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS), a Serbian multinational oil and gas company, Fominykh has been involved covering all legal matters relating...
Group general counsel | Stellwagen Group
Stellwagen Group provides various services to the aviation, shipping and defence infrastructure sectors. A lawyer with over 25 years of experience within the industry and private practice, its chief legal...
Senior corporate counsel | Hubspot
Commercially focused technology and IT lawyer Michelle Geraghty joined HubSpot in February 2017 but is already well-acquainted with its faced paced, ever-changing and exciting environment. Coming from Afilias, the world’s...
General counsel | Audi
General counsel for leading German automobile manufacturer Audi, Dr Martin Wagener has been with the company for the last 17 years, growing professionally with the business over the years. After...
General counsel, executive vice president legal and compliance | Senvion Holding
Formerly a partner with Clifford Chance and Sidley Austin, Georg Rützel joined GE in 2009 and has held various positions within the Group since then; alongside his latest role as...
Legal director | Hochtief
Since its founding in 1874, Hochtief has developed into Germany’s largest construction company with currently over 51,000 employees and a sales volume of €19.9bn in 2016. Legal director Dr Holger-Kirsten...
General counsel | BMW
The German automotive sector has famously benefited from the close links manufacturers have established with engineering faculties at the country’s leading universities. BMW’s hugely influential general counsel, Dr Juergen Reul,...
Global director legal affairs | Puma
Jochen Lederhilger is global director of legal affairs for Puma – one of the world’s most recognisable sportswear brands – and is a legal professional that has risen to this...
General counsel and chief compliance officer | Henkel
Thomas-Gerd Kühn has occupied the role of general counsel and chief compliance officer at chemical and consumer goods company Henkel since 2007. Having started within the Henkel legal department in...
Group head of legal services international | ERGO Group
Markus Gerd Kraemer has served as the group head of legal services for the international operations of ERGO Group for the last seven months. In this short time frame, Kraemer...
Vice president legal and contracts and general counsel | Thales Deutschland
With 28 people reporting to him indirectly, Dr Andre Körtgen’s broad responsibilities as head of legal and contracts and general counsel for international defence and security major Thales’ German operations...
| Liberty Seguros Generales
Liberty Mutual Insurance, the US-based global insurer, entered the Chilean market in 2004 when it acquired AGF Allianz Chile. Today it has a strong presence in the country, operating as...
General counsel | Nestlé Deutschland
Spending over a decade providing legal advice and business support within the food and beverage industry, Helge Köhlbrandt is the current general counsel for Nestlé Deutschland, the German subsidiary company...
Executive vice president and group general counsel | SAP
Michael Junge joined SAP AG in 1993 as head of the legal department. In his current role Junge is responsible for the global legal function, which covers all legal matters...
General counsel | Commerzbank
Achieving the status of being Germany’s second largest bank, DAX30 listed Commerzbank offers a wide range of banking and other financial services to its international customer base in the retail,...
| Enel Generación Chile
Known for its high capability regarding technological innovations, Enel Generación Chile’s legal team has recently introduced a new tool for legal case management called SUITE. ‘It’s a new software that...
| Empresas Jürgen Paulmann
Established to oversee the assets of the late Jürgen Paulmann, a well-known Chilean businessman, Empresas Jürgen Paulmann employs a nimble team of legal professionals. Led by general counsel Ricardo Olivares,...
| CGE
Seeking to achieve best-inclass corporate governance and improve efficiency inside its business, Compania General de Electricidad (CGE), which is 96.5% owned by the Spanish Gas Natural Fenosa, has recently undertaken...
Legal and government relations director, board member | Procter & Gamble Turkey and Caucasus
Lawyer of over 20 years Ozge Ayoz joined Procter & Gamble (P&G) Switzerland in 2000 as a senior legal counsel for EMEA. After three years her role expanded to cover...
| AES Gener
A legal team of professionals possessing deep technical sector expertise and the capability to oversee projects from start to finish is an absolute necessity for an ambitious and constantly growing...
| LafargeHolcim
LafargeHolcim is one of the world’s leading building materials companies serving masons, builders, architects and engineers all over the world. Members of the current Asia Pacific legal team, led by...
| Jardine Cycle & Carriage (JC&C)
Jardine Cycle & Carriage (JC&C) is a leading listed company in Singapore with a market capitalisation of approximately US$11.5bn as of November 2017. Headed by group general counsel, director of...
| Bridgestone - Asia Pacific
Bridgestone Asia Pacific, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the world’s largest tyre and rubber company Bridgestone Corporation, is based in Singapore as the regional headquarters and strategic business unit of the...
Legal and compliance manager | ICBC Perú Bank
A landmark moment for the Peruvian banking sector occurred in 2013 when China’s largest commercial bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), gained a foothold in the market by...
General counsel - Latin America and Caribbean | Guy Carpenter & Company
Jorge Meneses oversees multiple jurisdictions in his role as assistant general counsel for Latin America and the Caribbean at reinsurance solutions business Guy Carpenter & Company, with Argentina, Brazil, Chile,...
Legal manager | Peru LNG
Officially open for business in 2010, Peru LNG is a $3.8bn liquefied natural gas plant that was the first of its kind in South America upon commencing operations. Solange Cuadros...
Lawyer - legal counsel | Cementos Portland
Jorge L. Conde Granados has more than 13 years of proven legal experience, participating in numerous works of strategic corporate planning and contractual investments in Peru and on a global...
Vice president - corporate legal | Grupo Beca
Grupo Breca is a major Peruvian conglomerate that operates through a number of large subsidiaries in a range of business sectors. Overseeing legal matters for this vast organisation is vice...
General counsel | Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex)
Pemex is the largest company in Mexico and operates through the whole chain of value of the oil industry, from exploration and production to industrial transformation, logistics and marketing. Explaining...
Vice president and general counsel | AT & T México
AT&T has invested US$3bn in Mexico to deploy its high-speed mobile network service that will provide coverage, by the end of 2018, to 100 million people in Mexico. Employing 19,000...
General legal director - Mexico and Latin America | Banco Azteca
A versatile in-house legal professional, Jorge Goñi Camarillo’s time as an external counsel has involved supporting the operations of many group companies, showcasing his immense work ethic, attention to detail...
Director of legal ethics and compliance - Mexico and Central America | Boehringer Ingelheim
Jorge Dueñas Zapata joined Boehringer Ingelheim Mexico in 2000, and in 2009 he assumed the role of director of legal ethics and compliance. He is now the member of the...
| Telecom Argentina
Telecom Argentina is a major Argentine telephone operator that covers the Northern part of Argentina including the capital city of Buenos Aires. Having grown incrementally since its foundation in 1990,...
| Syngenta
Syngenta is a Swiss global agribusiness that has a number of business interests including genomic research, agrochemicals and seed production, and organises its activities in Argentina as part of its...
| Simplot Argentina
The two-person legal team at the Argentine joint venture operation of the multinational food and agribusiness company Simplot, deals with all legal matters faced by the business regionally, providing support...
| Schlumberger
The Argentina based legal team of multinational company Schlumberger was described by nominators as having ‘effective collaboration and open communication’, ensuring that the Buenos Aires based team is at the...
| SAS Institute Argentina
SAS Institute, the US multinational analytical software developer, is a company that continues to expand its presence outside its home market. The growth of SAS in Latin America is overseen...
| Petrobras Argentina
Petrobras Argentina was first formed as the Argentina-based subsidiary of Brazilian energy conglomerate Petróleo Brasileiro, however is now under control of Argentina’s domestic energy giant Pampa Energía. Petrobras Argentina is...
| Oracle Argentina
Sun Microsystems was integrated into the Oracle business after the multinational computer technology company’s acquisition in 2010. This complex merger of two leading technology companies required a tremendous amount of...
| Novartis Argentina
The Argentine legal department of the multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis embraces a “matrix-like” organisational structure, whereby the country legal heads of the internal divisions (Pharma, Onco, Alcon or Sandoz) report...
| L'Oréal Argentina
A compact but dynamic, knowledgeable and business-savvy legal function, multinational consumer products giant L’Oréal’s legal team in Argentina is comprised of three individuals; Solange Kurchan as legal manager, Matías Sorondo...
| Kuehne + Nagel
Global transport and logistics company Kuehne + Nagel has more than 1,300 offices in 108 countries with more than 70,000 employees. Supporting its Argentina based operations, the Kuehne + Nagel...
| Holcim Argentina
Holcim is a pioneer company in the construction industry in Argentina, it produces and markets cement, concrete and stone aggregates. Its first Argentine cement manufacturing plant was built in 1930...
| Genneia
In Argentina, Genneia is a leading supplier of energy solutions using the latest technologies for thermal equipment and a main investor in the country’s renewable energy projects. Legal affairs director...
| Citibank Argentina
The March 2017 sale of Citi’s consumer business in Argentina had a big impact on the company’s legal team in the country. Explaining the effect of the function’s reduction in...
| Bunge Southern Cone
Bunge’s history in Argentina dates as far back as 1884 when it launched a grain trading company in the expanding agribusiness market. Today it is one of the most important...
| Biogen
Pioneering biotechnology company Biogen’s cutting-edge remedies for neurological and neurodegenerative conditions in the Southern Cone are managed from its regional base in Argentina, which has been in operation since 2008....
| Alfred C. Toepfer International Argentina (ACTIAR)
Praised by nominators for the strength of the ‘internal relationships and interaction of the team’ which leads to the ‘efficient execution’ of its tasks, the legal team of agricultural commodities...
| Aerolíneas Argentinas
Aerolíneas Argentinas is the largest airline in Argentina and is also the country’s flag carrier. It has been run by the Argentine government since late 2008, when the country regained...
| ManpowerGroup Argentina
With over 50 years of local experience, US Fortune 500 company ManpowerGroup develops innovative human capital solutions for more than 2,000 clients in Argentina. The legal team at the Group’s...
Senior legal advisor | Bupa
RISING STARS: GCS OF TOMORROW International healthcare company Bupa recently launched a digital innovation incubator called Blue Table, supported by Bupa Customer Lab. The initiative offers start-ups and small businesses...
The in-house legal team at drinks multinational Diageo has a sprawling global mandate: the company’s 140 lawyers cover the 180 countries it does business in, all from 40 countries where...
| Legal & General Group
‘As GC I find it invaluable to have a strong legal team,’ says Legal & General’s Geoffrey Timms. ‘They enable me to stay employed without doing much work.’ Getting there...
General counsel | Olympia Group
Founded in 1980, the Olympia Group has since developed into one of the leading Greek corporate businesses through the activities of his various subsidiaries. General counsel Georgios Xirouchakis has been...
General counsel | Motor Oil Hellas
George Prousanides is the general counsel of Greek petroleum company Motor Oil Hellas (MOH), which operates the Corinth refinery, the second largest oil refinery in Europe, as well as owning...
Director legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors | Athens International Airport
‘Confident, smart and sharp’ according to nominators, Eugenia Papathanasopoulou has served as the director of legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors of Athens International Airport since September...
Head of legal and compliance South East Europe | Nokia
Nokia’s resurgence in recent years has been one of the most discussed events in the mobile technology sector, and this promising state of affairs for the company is attributable in...
Head of legal and compliance Greece | Deutsche Bank
Katerina Papageorgiou is the head of legal and compliance for the Greek operations of world-renowned financial services institution Deutsche Bank. Appointed to her role in April 2012, she has approximately...
Legal manager | Intership Navigation
A maritime law specialist, having obtained an LLB and LLM in the field before embarking on her professional career in earnest, Georgina Panayiotou is legal manager for Limassol-based shipping company...
Group general counsel | Piraeus Bank
Founded in 1916, Piraeus Bank has grown into Greece’s leading bank with approximately 17,000 employees and operations in seven countries serving just under six million customers. Among its taskforce is...
Head of legal division - Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Wealth Management | Eurobank Ergasias
A legal professional with 25 years of experience in the banking sector, George Lekkas considers his move to Eurobank, a major Greek bank listed on the Athens Exchange, as one...
Legal manager | OSM Maritime Group
Georgia Demetriou is an experienced specialist with a demonstrated history of expertise in maritime law, arbitration, banking law and European law across multiple jurisdictions. Her in-house career in the shipping...
General manager legal and regulatory | Mytilineos Holdings
Evangelos Chrysafis has been general manager of legal and regulatory affairs at Mytilineos Holdings, a Greek-based industrial conglomerate whose companies are active in the sectors of metallurgy, energy and EPC....
Chief internal legal advisor | Atlantic Insurance
Nearly 30 years after its establishment, Atlantic Insurance ranks among the largest insurance companies in Cyprus, employing a highly qualified workforce across easily accessible offices in all cities on the...
Legal and regulation manager, head of business legal team (clients and procurement) | Altice Portugal
Altice Portugal is Portugal’s largest telecommunications service provider. The company had operated as Portugal Telecom or PT until Dutch-based Altice Group purchased it in 2015. André Steiger Garção had been...
Assistant general counsel, Southern Europe and Central Eastern Europe | GSK Consumer Healthcare
Jorge Muñoz’s 13-year legal career at multinational pharmaceutical giant GSK can be divided into three periods. He started out as a legal counsel partnering with different business units of the...
Group chief legal officer | Groupe PSA
Mark Rollinger joined Groupe PSA – the owners of the Peugeot, Citroën and Vauxhall brands – as group chief legal officer in October 2013, and currently oversees the legal aspects...
Group general counsel | Séché Environnement
Geraldine Hivert-de Grandi was appointed general counsel of Séché Environnement, a newly created position, in early 2016. Her role has been to set up and implement a business orientated legal...
Group general counsel | Groupe Casino
Saint-Étienne headquartered Groupe Casino is a multinational mass retail company operating under a number of different subsidiaries, employing almost 350,000 people and commanding annual revenues close to €50bn. Jean-Yves Haagen...
General counsel | Framatome
Antoine Genevois began his legal career in 2000 at Thales Group, where he provided support to set up the company’s compliance program and the litigation associated with the sale of...
General counsel and secretary of the board | Air France
Sophie Gelbert’s first move upon graduating from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Law University in 1984 was to COFACE where, in what would prove to be symbolic of the ultimate direction her...
Group general counsel | BNP Paribas
Founded in 1848, BNP Paribas has grown into a leading bank in the Eurozone and a prominent international banking institution earning over €43bn in annual revenues. Georges Dirani is BNP...
Deputy general counsel | Renault
Handling corporate matters, projects and transactions at the French automobile multinational Renault, deputy general counsel Jean-Benoit Devauges continues to impress peers both within Groupe Renault and among France’s wider in-house...
Executive legal director | United Technologies Corporation (UTC) - Global Fire and Security Field Operations
Formerly an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, then in-house legal director for logistics operator Carrier Transicold, Joséphine Deege-Mansour took on her wide-ranging position as...
| Total Nigeria E&P
One of the seven oil “supermajors” that dominate global production, Total’s exploration and production operations in Nigeria are undertaken by Total E&P Nigeria Limited and Total Upstream Nigeria Limited, which...
Executive legal services | Steinhoff International
A global retailer with a particular focus on furniture and household goods, Steinhoff International boasts total revenues of over €8.6bn and has a portfolio of over 40 brands in 30...
| Orange Egypt
The 28-strong legal team at Egypt’s major mobile phone operator Orange Egypt (formerly known as Mobinil) has produced legal opinions and vital advice that have shaped the strategic direction of...
| Nigerian Breweries
The largest brewing company in Nigeria and one of the largest in Africa overall, Nigerian Breweries produces some of the most recognisable brands in Nigeria and West Africa. In November...
| Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System
Owned collectively by the Central Bank of Nigeria and all licenced banks operating within the country, the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) provides the infrastructure for the automated processing, settlement...
Group legal director | East African Breweries (EABL)
East African Breweries Limited (EABL) is East Africa’s leading branded alcohol beverage business with a number of notable brands in the beverage industry including beers, spirits and non-alcoholic drinks, and...
| Lafarge Egypt
Operating as a subsidiary of Lafarge S.A., Lafarge Egypt is a leading producer of building materials in North Africa. The legal department, led by general counsel Ahmed Barakat, is part...
| Investec Asset Management
Since it was founded in 1991, the South Africa-based asset management arm of Investec has developed a worldwide reputation for market-leading investment products. The company has grown rapidly and, as...
Executive vice president - governance, legal and corporate services | African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)
Dr George Elombi was appointed executive vice president in April 2015, this role sees him manage the bank’s corporate governance, legal and board functions. As executive secretary, he oversees the...
| Etisalat Nigeria
The Nigerian arm of UAE-based telecoms service provider Etisalat is a pioneering force in the region, responsible for one of the first major broadband networks in Nigeria, significant investment in...
Vice president legal counsel and corporate secretariat | Ethiopian Airlines
Genanaw Assefa leads the legal team of Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s largest and most profitable airline. Assefa joined Ethiopian Airlines in 2008 as assistant general counsel and worked his way up...
| Engen Petroleum
With a slowing global economy and falling oil prices, the pressure to reduce costs and improve operational performance has been nowhere more keenly felt than in the extractives sector. The...
| Ecobank
Over the past two years, Ecobank Nigeria’s legal team has modified its focus to accelerate the realisation of the bank’s strategic objectives. The legal department now has specialised teams, which...
Guinness in Cameroon has a history dating back to the 19th century, when European traders first brought stout to the African continent. The traditional Irish alcoholic beverage has since become...
| Chevron Nigeria
The activities of Chevron Nigeria, a subsidiary of American multinational energy company, are supported by a legal team headed by Ned Mojuetan, a well-recognised lawyer in Nigeria with 20 years’...
Assistant general counsel | BP Africa
Heading ‘the best in-house legal team in Angola’, Karin Sinniger has been nominated for her outstanding contribution to the jurisdiction. Sinniger has made it a focus to train local lawyers,...
Legal officer | nited Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)
In the two years since it was established, MINUSMA’s efforts to stabilise relations in Mali have focused on maximising security, monitoring human rights and humanitarian assistance. Hervé Ntege wins respect...
Head of legal and secretarial services | Barclays Bank of Kenya
Barclays Bank of Kenya had an 11% net profit raise during 2014 and sought approval to establish an insurance business in the jurisdiction. The Bank announced a deal with Samsung...
Legal Manager | Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Africa
George Klopper project managed the world’s largest thermal power systems merger, between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi of Japan. ‘The amounts of money involved are staggering and any mistakes (legally...
Manager, legal services | African Export-Import Bank
Throughout his five years at African Export-Import Bank, Gerald Chihota has supported the institution through periods of extreme political unrest. As well as handling of the myriad regulatory challenges this...
Chief legal and compliance officer | Qatar Airways
Ben Swagerman’s varied career, involving positions at the very highest levels of private practice, state judicial and in-house, places him as one of the most experienced and well-respected corporate counsel...
General counsel | Aldar Properties
Aldar Properties is the largest developer, investor and manager of real estate in Abu Dhabi. In recent years the Abu Dhabi property market has encountered some difficulties, and, although not...
Head of legal | Standard Chartered
Karl Rogers is one of the most respected general counsel in the Middle East, as well as being one of the leading structured finance and derivatives specialists in the in-house...
General counsel | Qatar Cool
Marie-Therese Auger joined Qatar Cool, the leading commercial provider of district cooling services in the country, in 2011 as the company’s first general counsel. This required Auger to develop the...
Partner | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Number of years practice: 25 Law school attended: Cornell University, New York University School of Law Languages spoken: English and Spanish Principal practice areas: Capital Markets, Corproate Governance, M&A Admissions:...
Partner and Chair of Latin American Practice | Paul Hastings
Number of years practice: 37 Law school attended: Fordham University School of Law Languages spoken: English Principal practice areas: Banking, Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, M&A Admissions: New York Known as...
Multinational conglomerate GE entered Sub-Saharan Africa more than 100 years ago and today has a vast footprint in the region, which consists of over 2,600 employees, revenues of approximately $3.3bn and operations in 25 countries, with key hubs located in Nigeria, South Africa, Angola, Ghana, Mozambique and Kenya.
With ambitious plans for its African operations, in 2014 GE made at a commitment to invest $2bn in facility development, skills training and sustainability initiatives across the continent by 2018. In addition, the company recently outlined its plans to invest around $150m in Nigeria by next year, along with investments in numerous oil and gas projects throughout the continent. GE’s efforts in Africa have also received recognition in the form of its “2016 Best ESG Energy Infrastructure Partner Africa Award” granted by international business publication by Capital Finance International. GE’s African legal team has had a strong influence on the company reputation in the region and has impressed with its outstanding work in project finance, asset sales and acquisition and employment law across its operations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
With lawyers located in GE Africa’s headquarters in Kenya and the other key regional hubs the team features a number of highly qualified lawyers well known for their long- standing track record of excellence. In particular, Supriya Bhandari, executive counsel based in Kenya, has impressed with her work on M&A transactions, corporate governance work and formulating and influencing business strategy. With over 18 years of experience in emerging markets, Bhandari has shown an ability to work as a partner to the business, who is capable of ensuring that her team understands the business needs to ensure client satisfaction.
