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Germany 2014

Marion Welp

Senior vice president – head of group legal and compliance | Esprit Group

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With 11 direct reports and a team of roughly 150 reports globally, Dr Marion Welp was promoted from head of law for Europe to global general counsel, merging the previously...

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Market observers rate Marion Welp as ‘outstanding in-house counsel’, who is ‘highly respected for her excellent business acumen, legal advice and organisation skills’ as well as for her way of ‘settling all legal matters for her company’. Esprit is an international fashion company with subsidiaries in over 40 countries and more than 10,000 employees, and Marion Welp’s legal department consists of lawyers in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Düsseldorf. When Welp joined Esprit seven years ago, the department had two lawyers globally, both based in Hong Kong, and she therefore had to set up the entire European legal department from scratch. In her view, a legal department is made up of ‘always commercial, pragmatic lawyers, who pro-actively provide advice to the board’. To fuel this approach she has introduced annual global training sessions focusing on ‘how a lawyer manages to get out of the proverbial ivory tower’. Welp has made the department emerge from its rather isolated position: ‘As advisors, we now are present at every important meeting’. A particular success in her career has been the ‘consensual dissolution of Esprit’s North America business – within two months and below budget’.

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