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.
In the latest in our Dinner with GC series, we consider some of the different calibrations of the general counsel role, in addition to the relationship between internal and external counsel – set against the backdrop of a city under pressure from the plummeting price of crude oil.
How do we flex our styles to meet changing and increasingly volatile circumstances?
As the growth of the major economies across Africa continues and the region as a whole becomes an increasingly attractive destination for foreign capital, GC speaks with in-house counsel on the ground to find out if the requisite talent to facilitate growth is available and how the domestic talent pool is developing.
GC Magazine was excited to host the second in its cutting-edge events series, Trailblazers, in Zurich on 8 June 2016. Once again, we were working with Tom Sager, the innovative former general counsel of DuPont.
