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The legal team of Nestlé Portugal provides comprehensive legal advice to the business, covering all aspects of law and serving the internal client as a ‘one stop shop for solutions’,...

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Since the previous general counsel was transferred to Nestlé headquarters in Switzerland in 2015, the legal team of the transnational Nutrition, Health and Wellness company’s Turkish branch has been headed...

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Over recent years the Nestlé Perú legal team has assisted in various business schemes to expand in the country, most recently helping it invest in new factories and job creation...

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The challenges of doing business in an emerging market – political instability, bribery and corruption, fluctuating currencies – are well known to any multinational corporation. As one of the largest...

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The legal team at Nestlé Mexico provided expert guidance on the 2018 investment agreement worth US$154m to open a coffee production factory in Veracruz. The facility operates with state-of-the-art green...

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The legal team at Nestlé Mexico is led by Wendy Alcala, general counsel and compliance officer. Alcala ranked 31st in Expansion’s 2016 list of 100 most powerful women in Mexico....

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Although headquartered in Switzerland, the world’s largest food group Nestlé has been present in France since 1868. Today the French arm of the Nestlé business earns more than €4bn with...

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Nestlé entered the Colombian market in 1922, when it introduced its first products to the country through Panama. Since officially opening its first operation in the country in 1944, the...

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The in-house legal department of Nestlé Canada is led by senior vice president, general counsel and secretary Daniel Holden, and it is responsible for the management of the Canadian legal...

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Nestlé Nigeria is part of Nestlé’s Central and West African division of the Swiss multinational food and beverage company. Operating as the hub for Central and West Africa, Nestlé Nigeria...

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Phyllis Gleiser, general counsel, leads the talented group of four in-house lawyers and support team members at Nestlé Colombia, a major producer in the global Nestlé brand network. Recently the...

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Nestlé is the largest food company in the world, with more than 2,000 brands and operations in 189 countries. China is perceived as Nestlé’s second largest market with the first...

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The Nestlé legal team provides legal advice for all the three widely-recognised operating companies of the Nestlé Group in Italy: Nestlé Italiana, Sanpellegrino and Nespresso. In the last two years,...

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Swiss multinational food and drink company Nestlé is the largest food company in the world according to revenues and has been since 2014. Forming an integral part of its growth...

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Led by UK-based Mark Maurice-Jones, Nestlé’s Ireland-focused legal team has been extremely proactive in terms of process improvements lately, especially in the area of internal compliance. ‘About a year ago’,...

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The world’s largest food and beverage company Nestlé have a footprint in Central America that extends to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. Legal support to the...

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The legal team at Nestlé Group Italy and Malta is overseen by general counsel Daniele Guarnieri, who joined in 2016 bringing over nine years of experience as legal affairs manager...

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The world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé has a long and established presence in Chile having begun its operations there in 1934. Today Nestlé Chile’s in-house legal team contributes...

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Jackie Donaldson currently serves as the general counsel of Nestlé’s Plata region, which encompasses operations in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, having previously worked in a legal specialist position at the...

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Nestlé Equatorial African Region (EAR) is active in 21 countries within Equatorial Africa. The legal team, led by Kenya-based legal manager Reena Shah is involved in a wide range of...

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The Nestlé legal team, headed by chief legal officer and group general counsel Ricardo Cortés-Monroy, contains more than 400 personnel, making it one of the largest and most experienced teams in food law and the wider nutrition industry. Nestlé is the world’s number one patent and trademark filer in the food and beverage industry and the team has been integral to forming and implementing the group advocacy committee which co-leads seven key aspects of Nestlé’s Nutrition, Health and Wellness agenda and engages with external stakeholders to discuss related regulation. The team has have created a market-leading legal unit to support this strategy, and they report to the executive board on a regular basis. Nestlé’s legal team is also strongly committed to creating legal jobs for the next generation of lawyers. The team has created various initiatives dedicated to giving young, talented people a chance to learn from some of the finest lawyers in the industry. In addition, the most senior lawyers personally mentor young lawyers within Nestlé and externally. Many are very frequent public speakers at top universities in Switzerland in order to share their knowledge and experience. The vision for the Nestlé legal team goes above and beyond their usual remit as they try to impact various societal health challenges by engaging relevant stakeholders that pose political and legislative regulatory challenges for the market.

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