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Richard Brait

General counsel - Canada | Siemens

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The multinational conglomerate Siemens has a significant presence in Canada with 4,500 employees and annual revenue of CAD$3bn. Richard Brait has successfully lead the legal and compliance groups for the past seven years and has been active in the leadership of Siemens’ business development initiatives. Apart from providing ongoing legal support of the highest quality and leading a cohesive legal unit, Brait is recognised for his immense contribution to the commercial success of Siemens in Canada. In 2009, he served in a three-person interim Office of the CEO and in 2013 was a finalist for the Business Achievement Award at the Canadian General Counsel Awards. Brait’s past experience includes working as a partner at the Canadian corporate law firm Stikeman Elliott, where he was in charge of the global technology unit. Prior to that he spent a decade at Nortel Networks, where he established and ran its intellectual property business, alongside his role as general counsel. More recently, Brait served as general counsel at the semiconductor technology corporation ATI Technologies, where He rolled out structural improvements to the department in the form of improvements to the corporate governance systems and redesign of business processes for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. In addition, he made his mark to the commercial side of the business, by playing a lead role by implementing the process by which senior management and the board evaluated the corporation’s strategic alternatives led the negotiation of ATI’s merger agreement with AMD. Following ATI’s merger with AMD, Brait became chief administrative officer of AMD’s Canada operations and coordinated the company’s strategy in the region.

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