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Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? At HUL, our operating model is designed to deliver faster decisions....
| Unilever España
Operating as a subsidiary of Unilever, Unilever España manufactures and distributes fast-moving consumer goods such as food, home and personal products, with well-known brands such as Dove, Axe, Lipton and...
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Covering a wide spectrum of work from M&A “white space” to digital advertising, business integrity agenda to competition law, the legal function at Unilever is ‘at the heart of the...
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Unilever’s legal department is a small and agile team, comprising of three lawyers, Christina Vasilopoulou, who is general counsel, Kalliopi Georganda and Alexandra Moussatou. The territorial responsibility of the legal...
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Starting its operations in the country in 1891, Unilever has offices and manufacturing locations across South Africa. Its South African legal team is overseen by general counsel Africa, Kim Morgan-Verlaque...
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...
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Risk management and integrity is a key part of the legal management at British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company Unilever, making up a large part of a company that pushes a...
| Unilever Rus
The 16-strong legal team tasked with providing legal support to Unilever’s business across Russia, Ukraine and Belarus is comprised of a number of outstanding individuals. It is headed by Anastasia...
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Vice president of legal services and general secretary Ulises Canosa Suárez leads a legal team of 50 members at BBVA Colombia, a major Colombian banking institution. The legal team is...
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Possessing state of the art expertise in all applicable topics such as competition law, privacy, new technologies law and compliance, Unilever’s legal team in the Central American region has managed...
| Unilever Nordics
Global consumer goods giant Unilever has a strong presence in the Nordic countries, and its business activities in the region are supported by a compact but agile, knowledgeable and business-savvy...
| Hindustan Unilever
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) is an Indian state-owned oil and natural gas company and is one of the largest Indian businesses. It has 25% market share in India among...
| Unilever Indonesia
With a presence in Indonesia that dates back to 1933, Unilever has a long established history in the country and recorded revenues in excess of US$2.8bn in 2016. Reski Damayanti...
| Unilever - South East Asia Australasia
British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company Unilever has an extremely strong presence in Southeast Asia and its esteemed position in the region’s markets is reflected in the quality of its South...
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Covering Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, Unilever’s Southern Cone operations cover a range of jurisdictions and regulatory regimes. The legal team tasked with overseeing the multinational consumer products...
No year is uneventful at global consumer goods giant Unilever, but 2017 in particular was memorable, thanks to the unsuccessful blockbuster merger with Kraft Heinz. It would have been the...
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The African market is a significant one for Unilever’s vast and diverse product range, and Unilever has in turn become one of the most important multinationals operating on the Continent....
Headed by Colombian lawyer Jorge De Los Rios, Unilever’s seven-strong Middle Americas legal team covers the entire Andean region and Central America. Over the past two years the team has put an emphasis on forging a close-knit partnership with the larger company, with each lawyer currently holding direct responsibility for achieving specific business goals and objectives. Likewise, the legal function has invested significant resources in achieving a simplification of processes and tools, as well as improving training and resources available to individual lawyers. As the legal department provides support to the company across multiple jurisdictions, achieving strong compliance capabilities has also been key for the legal team, enabling De Los Rios and his colleagues to promptly respond to situations that may cause disruptions to the business. Another significant area of achievement for Unilever’s legal team has been fostering a close partnership with senior management, closely following the corporate business agenda and designing legal strategy to achieve business goals. ‘In Unilever we perceive the legal function as a tool necessary for reaching the goals’, De Los Rios explains. ‘So, for example, the legal function often conducts reviews of business practices (i.e. Distribution) to identify opportunities for improvement which may result in better business performance’. During the last few years the team supported the implementation of new initiatives related to sales and distribution procurement and the company’s manufacturing activities which have resulted in more efficient activities and in a reduction of costs. The department also has responsibility for important corporate projects – for example, this year alone has seen the team complete the sale of the soya and beverages brand Ades to Coca-Cola and the acquisition of the home and personal care business of the Latin American company Quala. The latter acquisition covers nine countries in the region and has a value of $1.2bn. Having made significant progress on the business agenda related to sustainability, the team now prides itself on its culture of doing the business ‘the right way’, and has encouraged the rest of the company to think in the same way.
General counsel, beauty and wellbeing LATAM, head of legal and data privacy leader, LATAM
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General counsel, ice cream Latam and legal marketing lead for Brazil
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