About

Up until 2010, Corinne Bourrat had been head of legal at renewable energy project developer juwi, when she moved into her current role as Corporate Compliance Officer. Her work focuses on the development of legally sound and pragmatic solutions while keeping an eye on resources used. She adopts a balanced approach: ‘In a company it’s not about representing one’s own interests but about business relationships, often long term, where the main focus can’t always be to be right’. What she expects of her team are ‘a good measure of creativity and the willingness to try something new’. Bourrat couples this with established structures and has developed contract templates and set standards for her team. She has also successfully developed and implemented a compliance management system for the mid-market company that has 1,800 employees globally. In a previous role she has been in charge of a Luxembourg holding company, Demag Holding Gruppe, including its participations in Germany, Switzerland and the UK, where Bourrat not only oversaw the development of the holding structure but also the refinancing and eventual sales of those participations, up until the IPO and the holding company’s dissolution. When working with external lawyers, Bourrat is not looking for the legally most refined solution, neither for a competition with the in-house department. She is not trying to find a better lawyer among external counsel, but ‘the best advisor for support in a particular situation’.