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Made up of 14 members from four different nationalities, the Spanish legal department at Siemens is an ‘international team embedded within, and trusted by, the business’, according to general counsel...
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With a number of different business interests in the country, global industrials conglomerate Siemens employs a highly capable team of legal professionals to mitigate risk and navigate the organisation through...
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Led by general counsel Mehmet Celal Savaş, the Turkish legal team of eight at Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering company, creates value as ‘a real business partner’. As Savaş is part...
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The Russian operation of Siemens has gone from strength to strength over the past year, on the back of successful conclusions to a number of high profile deals. After negotiations...
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Since 1996, Siemens Peru has maintained a leading position in the market thanks to several projects of great magnitude. With approximately 400 employees in the country, Siemens Peru has supplied...
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Siemens, a global organisation that develops high-tech and innovative solutions for industry, energy, cities and healthcare, has a team of nine lawyers to support operations across Denmark and Norway. Since...
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For more than 75 years, Siemens has been active in Saudi Arabia, where it holds leading positions in the industrial, energy and healthcare sectors. The Siemens Saudi Arabia legal team,...
| Siemens Mesoamérica
Siemens Mesoamérica, the Mexican arm of the global conglomerate, has a legal team of 15 lawyers, and is led by general counsel Juan Carlos Maroto, a ‘transnational lawyer with extensive...
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The past few years have been highly memorable for Siemens’ six-person legal department in Colombia, as the team executed a major initiative to harmonise and simplify all of its contract...
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Siemens Canada, the Canadian arm of the global manufacturing giant, is a comprehensive operation with approximately 4,500 employees and annual revenue of C$2bn. All of Siemens’ global businesses have operations...
| Siemens Poland
Led by general counsel Wojciech Kowalewski, the legal department at Siemens Poland is extremely flexible and competent in dealing with issues in relation to regulatory changes, new products and ensuring...
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Dr Matthias Geiger serves as general counsel for the Norwegian operations of global industrials giant Siemens, managing a legal department of six lawyers. Two of the team members are qualified...
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A relatively small legal department of approximately 40 employees provides legal support to multinational conglomerate Siemens’ numerous business interests in Russia. With healthcare, energy and technology being just some of...
| Siemens Mobility
The in-house legal department of Siemens Mobility in Colombia has regional coverage as well as specific to each relevant jurisdiction. The team has adapted to the division of the Mobility...
| Siemens Healthineers
The in-house legal team at Siemens Healthineers in Colombia continues to impress and provide the highest quality legal coverage to the global healthcare giant’s presence in Colombia and the Andean...
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Siemens opened its first company in Sweden in 1893, and today it has 4,200 employees in 40 locations with headquarters in Stockholm. During the fiscal year 2018, sales for Siemens...
| Siemens Chile
The legal department at the multinational conglomerate Siemens in Chile supports the company operations on a whole range of issues encountered by its various lines of business. The team’s portfolio...
| Siemens Heatlhineers
Siemens Healthineers has gone from strength to strength since its major rebranding exercise in 2016, which saw it transition to its current name from Siemens Healthcare. Bernd Dudel is general...
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Having started operations in Argentina in 1857, the German conglomerate Siemens has a strong and long-standing presence in the country. Today, among its 1,600 Argentine employees is the company’s legal...
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Siemens is an engineering company, headquartered in Germany, and is Europe’s largest engineering business. Over the past several decades, Siemens has invested immensely in Africa, striving to bring new technology,...
With an overall headcount of approximately 1,500 individuals, Siemens’ legal firepower is comparable to a significant dedicated law firm. Jörg Häring, general counsel for Europe and Africa and general counsel for the power and gas division, explains how this large operation is organised to most efficiently make use of its resources: ‘Siemens is organised around five separate divisions, each of which have a head lawyer or Divisional GC. Below that, each business unit has a lead lawyer, who do not have teams per se but are the personal contact with the business unit operating on the business partner principle. We also have five lawyer pools with specialist expertise: one for projects, one for products, one for tech, one for corporate M&A and one for cross-business matters. And then, Siemens is active in roughly 200 countries, probably 80 of which have regional legal departments, these also have lead lawyers’. This pooling approach is a new innovation for the team, allowing greater specialist knowledge development while allowing some resource to be shifted between divisions as needed. Häring also reports that Siemens has added a new legal toolbox, including smart templates which allow the business to build contracts based on a number of inputs and then stockpile any new contract templates for future use. Among a litany of major project work undertaken by the Siemens legal function, Häring mentions his division’s settlement on the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in Finland as highly notable. ‘This was a particularly tricky matter’, he explains, ‘because we were in consortium with Areva which became embroiled in significant financial difficulties which led to delays in the project. The settlement ended an arbitration where we had claims against the customer of €2.3bn, and the customer came back with a €3.9bn counter claim’. Ultimately, this was settled acceptably for the Siemens side, with the three-digit million settlement amount to be paid to Finnish plant operator TVO entirely by Areva rather than Siemens.
