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Head of legal | Remgro
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Telecommunications lawyer, Marcel Huber has broad experience and a strong record of accomplishments in the fields of IT law, corporate law, competition law, copyright law, data protection, legal management M&A...
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| Uber Colombia
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Head of legal | Edeka
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Head of legal and IP services | Remgro
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Team size: 92
Major legal advisers: Blackstone Chambers, Covington & Burling, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Herbert Smith Freehills, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells, NautaDutilh
Ridesharing giant Uber has arguably been one of the most disruptive companies of the past decade – culminating in a highly anticipated initial public offering in 2019 that valued the company at more than $80bn.
Associate GC for EMEA and APAC, Matt Wilson (pictured), was the company’s first UK lawyer five years ago and now leads a team of 92. That growth has inevitably followed the business’ trajectory, with key projects including launching UberPool; obtaining regulatory change in countries across EMEA; launching Uber Eats; and working to achieve renewal of its private-hire operator licence in London after repeated TfL refusals since September 2017.
Uber’s respected legal director for northern Europe, Helen Hayes, has played a critical role in the company’s licensing battle in the UK. Comments Hogan Lovells partner Charles Brasted: ‘She is helping to deliver a wholesale transformation of culture and governance, which led the way for the global business. She has also built a new legal team across northern Europe, embedded the cultural change in a dozen jurisdictions, and is integral to Uber’s rollout of new products and services.’
Wilson leads a central hub team in Amsterdam with lawyers dotted around the
more than 40 countries Uber operates in in EMEA, and has recently taken on responsibility for the Asia-Pacific region. Despite substantial growth in legal headcount, however, he does not expect that to continue into 2020 and is instead turning to efficiency.
‘We can’t scale up in proportion to the global business, so we need to find alternative ways of doing things and helping the business to self-serve,’ he comments. ‘Legal teams add diversity to any business through decision-making – when you have a lawyer around the table you get a different perspective. Done effectively, that is highly valued by the business.’
