GC Issue: Autumn 2016

In our latest insight report, the legal challenges of working and investing in emerging economies are explored, with a focus on the MINT countries – Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey.

Equal parts detective and lawyer, James Ratcliffe sits down with GC to explain how a passion for archaeology and a degree in law spawned a career hunting down plundered art from around the world.

With the economy in a state of flux and political reform firmly on the agenda, GC speaks with members of The Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: Italy, for their take on what’s on the horizon for Lo Stivale.

GC spoke to in-house counsel and a global leader in management consulting to learn how process management, measurement and metrics are becoming an increasingly important tool for GCs and how different businesses are putting them to use in order to evolve their service-delivery models.

In a future where change and acceleration are seemingly the sole constant, how GCs adapt and lead will be essential to the success of the in-house legal function.

GC sits down with members of the Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: France for an inside look at the French economy and legal market.

GC distils the learnings from the 2016 Lex Mundi General Counsel Summit with pragmatic solutions for in-house counsel when handling a crisis.

Carlyle Kingswood Global talks to Rob Putland, deputy global GC at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a man busy transforming what it means to be an in-house lawyer.

Ben Heineman was GE’s Senior Vice President-General Counsel from 1987-2003 and then GE’s Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs from 2004 until his retirement at the end of 2005. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, he considers the challenges of conflict between a company’s global ethical policy and national laws.