What are the most significant cases, projects, or transactions that you and your legal team have recently been involved in?

Our Legal and Compliance team has efficiently supported and advised the Company’s various business lines in complying with and navigating the new requirements under legislation concerning real estate, residential housing, and pricing. We have enabled the Company to conduct and expand its business while effectively mitigating and managing risks arising from regulatory changes and uncertainties.

How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crisis to ensure the organisation’s resilience?

Keeping up to date with new domestic and international regulations that may affect our business, informing business lines of changes in the law and their implications, consulting with them on how we can support the maintenance and growth of operations, and educating staff to ensure compliance with the Company’s policies – among other measures – has equipped us to manage legal matters effectively during periods of instability or crisis, thereby safeguarding the Company’s resilience.

General counsel often speak of the need to be strategic to reach the pinnacle of the profession. What does being strategic mean to you?

To me, a strategic general counsel moves from a purely reactive role (responding to legal issues as they arise) to a proactive one: understanding the business deeply, anticipating future needs, and providing commercially aligned advice that supports the company’s mission and vision. This allows a general counsel to act as a trusted adviser and business partner, not merely as a service provider.  

What strategies do you employ to ensure the successful digital transformation of a legal department while maintaining compliance with your country’s data protection laws?  

We are currently living through a time of geopolitical change, and the world order that we have come to take for granted for many years is being rewritten. Does this affect your company’s risk profile and, if so, what are you doing to mitigate this?

Our world has been changing in recent years more quickly than ever. So our business will need to change to meet our clients’ requirements, and in-house counsel will have to adapt quickly to support the business in achieving its targets. Our world has also become increasingly uncertain. These uncertainties require in-house counsel to learn quickly and broadly so that we can provide prompt, useful, and feasible advice to business lines, helping the Company to maintain and grow while operational and compliance risks are effectively mitigated and managed.

What is a cause, business or otherwise, that you are passionate about? Why is this?

I have always been passionate about seeing the results of my advice to business lines, whether it involves winning a contract on favourable terms or handling claims in a timely and efficient manner. I am also deeply motivated by knowing that our work has played a vital role in the company’s success and growth.