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Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? Our CELA – corporate, external and legal affairs team in Brazil...
The highly qualified mid-to-large-sized Microsoft legal team responsible for Latin America is headquartered in Miami and successfully deals with a wide range of issues of strategic importance to the company....
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Microsoft is known globally for developing cutting-edge hardware and software technologies for both consumers and businesses. The vast global legal team is often at the epicentre of debates on new...
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Microsoft’s corporate, external and legal affairs (CELA) team in Spain is formed by five lawyers and three non-lawyers, and is organised around three functions – legal affairs, government and policy...
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The Microsoft South legal team is led by the corporate, external and legal affairs lead south subsidiary, Hector Figari, who oversees all the legal and corporate affairs support for the...
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Since revolutionising the personal computer market with the launch of Windows operating system in the mid-1980s, Microsoft has been one of the world’s largest and most important companies. It has...
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Microsoft’s Irish operation is fundamental to its global success. Starting its first operations in Ireland in 1985 by opening a small manufacturing facility employing just over 100 people, it now...
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The Microsoft Greece, Cyprus and Malta legal team comprises of a multi-skilled function, containing not just legal personnel but also government affairs personnel, and it collaborates closely with the philanthropies...
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Microsoft’s brand is known across the world, with a revenue of $85bn generated from its IT hardware and software solutions. Protecting Microsoft’s existing products across hundreds of countries, as well...
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The Microsoft legal team in Brazil deals with a large number of concurrent issues at any one time, and its in-house ranks are correspondingly filled with highly competent individuals who...
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In 2018 Microsoft Hong Kong entered a memorandum of understanding with The University of Hong Kong to create an AI research platform using mutual resources to accelerate scientific progress and...
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Microsoft has had a presence in China for more than 20 years, establishing itself in the market in 1992 with an office in Beijing. Today it has expanded its business...
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Microsoft’s corporate, external and legal affairs (CELA) department in Switzerland is led by director of legal affairs Jan Widmer and includes team members supporting different functions and locations such as...
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Rebecca Radloff has been senior attorney and head of legal at Microsoft Ireland in Dublin since 2016, with attorney experience at Microsoft since 2008 and previous private practice experience in...
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Microsoft’s corporate, external and legal affairs (CELA) department in Sweden is an integrated part of the wider Western Europe team. The Western Europe legal team is led by assistant general...
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Global technology company Microsoft is well established in Italy, and has recently opened a new headquarters in Milan that is expected to house 10,000 professionals and a further 5,000 students...
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The US-based multinational technology giant Microsoft has a significant presence across Latin America including Chile. Led by legal director and corporate affairs manager Alex Pesso Stoulman, the legal team at...
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Technology giant Microsoft is supported in Argentina by lawyers that have decades of experience between them and oversee a wide remit encompassing legal affairs, corporate and compliance issues pertaining to...
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As one of the most recognisable global names in the information technology sector, Microsoft Africa has been dedicated to enhancing computer literacy in Africa through various initiatives, helping millions of...
The Microsoft in-house legal team in the Middle East region came together less than two years ago as the role of the in-house team in the Gulf adapted to working as “digital transformation advisors”, assisting Microsoft clients with the implementation of cloud software and other Microsoft products into their team’s functionality. Joanne Fischlin, head of corporate, external and legal affairs, Gulf leads a team of three including Dr Lena El Malak, commercial attorney, and Hazar Alzaki, government affairs lead, all covering the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait. The team has worked on the launch of the Middle East’s first cloud data centres in the UAE and completed a corporate re-structuring in light of changing local laws including mainland local majority ownership, trade license limitations, VAT and changes with privacy and data protection. One major task of the team and in particular the external affairs function of the department was to engage with regulators and ISPs to understand the reasons for three GCC states blocking voice over IP (VOIP) products such as Skype Consumer, Facetime and others. Fischlin said of this endeavour, ‘we engaged with regulators and ISPs to understand the drivers for the block, address state concerns whilst mitigating the collateral impact on enterprise collaboration tools such as Skype for Business. Mitigation efforts, policy advancements and interim solutions have avoided significant impact on Microsoft Office 365 Suite adoption, whilst helping regulators also understand the societal impact of VOIP unavailability on blue collar, student and expat communities’. About the strength of the team, a nominator said: ‘A team of three intelligent, strong, diverse women who managed to integrate their function into every aspect of our business, from supporting us with difficult and challenging customer conversations around compliance, to consistently delivering briefings on trust and security to our high level customer officials and executives – not just in the UAE but in Gulf, MEA and beyond. Its clarity, transparency and unwavering commitment to support the business and enable customers and governments digitally transform is exemplary to everyone in the field’.
Regional vice president and director of corporate, external and legal affairs
Microsoft
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Regional vice president and director of corporate, external and legal affairs
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