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Legal, HR, transformation and governance officer | Telekom Romania Mobile
Legal director | Lactalis Group Romania
Group chief legal officer | Grivalia
Director of legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors | Athens International Airport
Vice president legal and compliance, assistant general counsel | Element Fleet Management Corporation Mexico
Agency and trust director | Citibanamex
Corporate general counsel and institutional affairs | Banco Itaú Chile
General counsel | Cementos Pacasmayo
Associate director - regulatory and general affairs | Collins Aerospace
General counsel | FWD Insurance
Director legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors | Athens International Airport
General counsel | Element
General counsel | Alsea
Legal manager, data protection officer and human rights correspondant | L’Oréal Chile
General counsel | Cementos Pacasmayo
General counsel, head of legal and compliance | Dixy
General counsel Russia, Ukraine and Belarus | Unilever
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Several areas in which Unilever’s legal team was active include: participation...
General counsel – global markets | CCC
We are delighted to nominate Anna Atanasow, who is general counsel, global markets at CCC, who has performed her role since 2015 and over this period actively acted in wide...
Corporate legal manager and secretary of the board | Itaú CorpBanca
Itaú Corpbanca is one of the largest banks in Chile with operations also in Colombia and Panama, a New York branch and representative offices in Lima, Peru and Madrid, Spain....
Senior vice-president and chief litigation officer | National Football League
Anastasia Danias’s background is in IP, but since moving in-house, she’s discovered that her skills can be utilized in a number of different ways: not only has she been managing...
Legal Director (Russia & CIS) | Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.
‘To me the legal profession is not just work that falls under my current job responsibility, but an opportunity to influence the legal culture as a whole,’ says Anastasia Nadezhdina,...
| Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston
The largest brewery in Peru, Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston (Backus) is part of the international SABMiller group and presides over a number of Peruvian beer and soft...
General counsel | Itaú CorpBanca
Headquartered in Santiago, Itaú CorpBanca is the largest commercial bank in Chile and is owned by Itaú Unibanco, the largest Latin American bank by assets. Itaú CorpBanca operates almost 400...
General counsel | Spark New Zealand
Melissa Anastasiou has created a bespoke 18-strong function to support a business in, what she terms, ‘a constant state of transformation and innovative growth’. Following two restructures the function now...
General counsel (Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) | Unilever
Having opened its first Russian representative office in 1992, the multinational consumer goods company Unilever is celebrating 25 years of operating in the country this year. Since 2015, Anastasia Shkarina...
General counsel, head of legal and compliance | Dixy
Starting off his career at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Artem Afanasiev spent more than 10 further years working in the most powerful international law firms, including seven years at Skadden, Arps,...
General counsel - global markets | CCC
CCC is the second largest Polish retailer and the market leader in the Polish footwear retail space, owning more than 67 registered brands of goods and operating over outlets across...
General counsel | Cementos Pacasmayo
Javier Durand Planas boasts over two decades of experience operating internationally throughout Latin America, the US, Canada and the UK, while based in Peru. In addition to this, he has...
General counsel | Gentera (Banco Compartamos)
Founded in 1990, Gentera (listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange) and its nine subsidiaries (Banco Compartamos, being one of them) represent the largest microfinance service provider in Latin America, leader...
Legal counsel – corporate, legal and regulatory executive director | Forthnet
Forthnet introduced Greece to internet and pay-tv and is now the largest provider of bundled home entertainment and communication services in the country. Amongst the company’s 1,200 employees is legal...
Director legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors | Athens International Airport
‘Confident, smart and sharp’ according to nominators, Eugenia Papathanasopoulou has served as the director of legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors of Athens International Airport since September...
Group chief legal and compliance counsel | INTRALOT
Established in 1992, leading gaming solutions supplier and operator INTRALOT has grown exponentially since. The company now boasts a presence in 55 global jurisdictions with a recorded €1.32bn turnover and...
Italian government-owned company Anas is dedicated to the construction and maintenance of Italian motorways and state highways. Anas has a large legal team composed of 86 lawyers and 80 paralegals in Italy, and general counsel Claudia Ricchetti has restructured the team since she joined in 2015 by implementing a new organisational chart diving the team into geographic areas. Upon starting, for the first time in the company’s history a litigation proceeding surfaced, gaining much media attention. Thanks to the team this resulted in an agreeable negotiation and a successful settlement. As a ‘strongly motivated’ team Richetti considers the function a ‘part of the process of the new “face” of the company whose managers and employees have recently involved in multiple cases of bribery related to the public procurement process’. Some of its outstanding members include Eleonora Mariani ‘who gave birth’ to the new corporate department reviewing all the procedures related to coordination of subsidiaries, appointment of new board members in the subsidiaries and joint venture agreements abroad. One of the most notable transactions for the legal team was when they implemented the new procedures for the settlement of a first of its kind litigation proceedings whose value had reached €8bn in which the team scrutinised €2bn litigation proceedings in terms of value of the request of damages. This ended in four favourable rules denying the right to compensation for damages in favour of the counterparties, despite previous rulings in their favour.
