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Head of legal advice | Banco de Machala
Legal manager | Empresa de Telecomunicaciones Nuevatel PCS de Bolivia (VIVA)
Chief legal and risk officer | M-KOPA
Principal Legal Counsel | International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Head of legal | Haitong Bank
Legal counsel Southeast Asia | Lenskart.com
Global head of legal – senior director | John Hardy
Associate General Counsel | Minor International
Head of legal | Refurbed Group
General counsel | Flying Tiger Copenhagen
General counsel | DSB
Head of legal | Losch Luxembourg
Head of legal | BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management Luxembourg
Executive - governance, legal, compliance and sustainability | Alexforbes
General counsel | Chevron
General counsel | Enel Green Power
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary | Xenia Hotels & Resorts
General counsel and chief compliance officer | PayJoy
General counsel | Virbac
General counsel | Euronext
Chief legal officer and corporate secretary | Aerostar Airport Holdings
Oversight Manager for Public Corporations of the Government of Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority
Vice president, legal and regulatory | Peerless Network
Executive vice president and chief legal officer | TransUnion
General counsel and head of compliance MENA - head of group human rights office - head of global compliance culture and training | Schindler Group
Deputy CEO and chief legal officer | Qatar Financial Centre Authority (QFCA) and Ministry of Commerce
Chief counsel and company secretary | Hikma Pharmaceuticals
General counsel and compliance officer | North Oil Company
Andy Russell serves as the General counsel and compliance officer for the North Oil Company (NOC). In his role, he leads the Legal and Governance Division within NOC and is...
Head of legal and compliance | Americana Restaurants International
| Power Assets Holdings
| CK Asset Holdings
| China Orient Asset Management (International) Holdings
| Asset World Corporation
Group general counsel | DiaSorin
Vice president legal affairs Italy | AstraZeneca
General counsel, EMEIA | EY
Corporate legal manager | AERODOM
Gerente legal | Viva- Nuevatel
Since November 2022, Marcelo Hassenteufel Loayza has been in charge of the corporate affairs department of Nuevatel PCS de Bolivia (VIVA), which supervises the areas i) regulatory, ii) legal, iii)...
Chief compliance officer | Banco Ecofuturo
Gissel Cabrera Torrez is the chief compliance officer at Banco Ecofuturo. She has over 12 years of experience and is qualified in Bolivia, Argentina and Spain. Her background includes a...
Country general counsel and GAM lead | 3M Philippines
Head of legal | Haitong Bank
Head of legal – Asia | Travelier (formerly Bookaway Group)
Associate general counsel | Minor International
| thyssenkrupp
General counsel | Richemont International
Head of contract management and legal | VolkerWessels Bouw & Vastgoedontwikkeling
Assistant general counsel | Johnson & Johnson
| Lazard asset management
General counsel | Enel Green Power
Senior corporate counsel and deputy manager of commercial and legal department of China Harbour Engineering Company Americas Division, Assistant general counsel of China Harbour Engineering Head Office in Beijing & commercial and legal Department director for the Fourth Bridge Over the Panama Canal Project in Panama. | China Harbour Engineering Company
Group general counsel | Safran
Chief legal officer | Ubisoft Entertainment
Deputy CEO and chief legal officer | Qatar Financial Centre Authority
General counsel and head of compliance, MENA - global lead compliance culture and training | Schindler
General counsel and chief compliance officer | PayJoy
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary | Xenia Hotels & Resorts
Legal counsel | Codere
Corporate legal manager | Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (AERODOM)
Deputy head of unit for investment screening | Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs
Head of legal | Refurbed
Head of legal | Haitong Bank
General counsel | VolkerWessels Bouw & Vastgoed Ontwikkeling
Assistant general counsel | Johnson & Johnson
General counsel | Royal Reesink
Vice president legal affairs Italy | AstraZeneca
General counsel & head of corporate affairs | VKR Holding A/S
Legal Counsel | MT Højgaard A/S
General counsel | Flying Tiger
General counsel | Richemont
Executive vice president and general counsel | Ameriprise Financial
General counsel | Icahn Enterprises
Senior vice president and general counsel | Sysco
General counsel, corporate secretary and chief government affairs officer | Yum Brands
General Counsel | Away
Partner | Shearman & Sterling
Number of years practice: 12 Principal practice areas: Capital markets Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English, Spanish Outside of Grissel Mercado’s capital markets work, she is involved with Abogadas...
| Credit Suisse
What are the most significant cases and/or transactions that your legal team has been involved with in the last two years? The India legal team deals with a wide array...
| Janssen
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? My direct reports are responsible for supporting all business structures mainly...
General counsel | Sybac Solar Group
The growth of solar power’s importance in meeting global energy demands seems destined to increase rapidly in coming years, and Sybac Solar’s general counsel Konstantin Sassen has been a legal...
Head of legal | Acatus
Formerly an attorney with Allen & Overy and a legal counsel for UBS, Ksenia Gräfin von Bassewitz moved to a digital capital markets start-up Acatus in late 2017. She hit...
Chief legal officer and board secretary | Qatar Financial Centre Authority
Since his appointment in 2015 as Qatar Financial Centre Authority (QFCA’s) chief legal officer, Nasser Al-Taweel has restructured the company’s legal operations to build an award winning well-respected legal team....
General counsel and compliance officer, MENA | Schindler Group
Formerly chief legal counsel for the Middle East and Africa at Eaton Corporation, Dr Yasser Aboismail joined Schindler Group in August 2016 as general counsel and compliance officer for the...
Executive vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and government affairs | Dean Foods
A Fortune 500 company, Dean Foods is a food and beverage company with 16,000 employees and annual sales of approximately $8bn. In 2016, the firm hired the highly experienced Russell...
Banks and professional services | Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Team size: 150+ Major law firms used: Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Shearman & Sterling, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom GC Powerlist regular Sajid Hussein...
Partner | Shearman & Sterling
Practice areas: Capital markets Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English and Spanish Grissel Mercado is a partner in Shearman & Sterling’s capital markets group where she advises issuers and...
Partner | Linklaters
Based in: London Principal practice areas: M&A, projects Admissions: England and Wales Having worked on some of the largest M&A transactions ever seen in the African energy sector, Mark Russell...
Partner | Norton Rose Fulbright
Based in: Paris Principal practice areas: M&A, projects Bar admissions: Paris, Australia Other admissions: England & Wales, Australia With over 25 years of experience advising on several global matters, Christophe...
Assistant general counsel | CarMax, Inc.
‘Definitely a leader in his field’, Terence handles all aspects of employee benefits at the US’s largest used car retailer, CarMax. ‘Terence is able to balance the constantly changing legal...
| Swisscanto Asset Management
Following its takeover by Zürcher Kantonalbank, legal team at Swisscanto Asset Management has recently adopted a new structure and assumed various new responsibilities. However, based on the legal requirements of...
| Pictet Asset Management
Pictet Asset management considers itself a ‘flat’ organisation, with legal team members interacting on a day-to-day basis directly with both operational staff and senior management. The team of 15 lawyers,...
| Credit Suisse
Headed by general counsel Romeo Cerutti, the legal team at Credit Suisse has had substantial contribution in recent years by successfully guiding the company through persisting challenges occurring in the...
| Allianz Suisse
As one of the largest insurance groups in Switzerland, Allianz Suisse is among the entities most affected by the increasingly tight regulatory focus on market conduct. Headed by general counsel...
General counsel and director, legal, government relations and communications | McDonald’s Singapore
In the wake of increasingly strict quotas on migrant labour, retailers in Singapore have had to change their approach to finding and recruiting staff. For McDonald’s regional general counsel, Faz...
| Rosseti
A Russia-wide power company, Rosseti was formed in the wake of the reorganisation of the Russian State power producer RAO UES. Still owned in large part by the Russian State,...
| The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Janssen is the result of the merger of two pharmaceutical research companies, Janssen Pharmaceutical and Cilag, both groups belonging to the Johnson & Johnson group of companies. In 2010, the...
| Aberdeen Asset Management Denmark
Described as being ‘key in creating robust systems and procedures’ for real estate transactions leading to a decrease in reliance on external legal counsel, senior lawyer Jacob Kruse Rasmussen heads...
Project director- Area & Rights | Odense Letbane P/S│Odense Tramway
The Odense Tramway is a construction company with the sole purpose of building the tramway in Odense, therefore the company did not initially invest in a legal department, until about...
General counsel & head of corporate affairs | VKR Holding A/S
Established in 1941, VKR Holding, parent to an international group of companies, specialise in the development, manufacturing and sales of windows, natural ventilation and solar systems. They are located in...
Head of legal | Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB)
Anders Bryde Rasmussen, head of legal at SEB, is described as ‘a bright lawyer and an excellent and ambitious head of his team’. He has a wealth of legal experience...
chief legal advisor | Al Rajhi Bank, Saudi Arabia
Worth $71.2bn, Al Rajhi Bank is one of the largest Islamic finance institutions in the world. ‘One of the prominent legal scholars of our generation’, Siddig Hussein has led significant...
chief legal counsel | MENA, Eaton, United Arab Emirates
Heading all legal operations across MENA and North Africa, Yasser Abo Ismail joined the company to take up the ‘exceptional opportunity’ of helping to establish new business hubs in Dubai...
| Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions (México)
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions México, a major force in the Mexican industrial manufacturing sector, has a high quality in-house legal team led by Mexico and Central America legal director Rodrigo Pérez...
| Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA)
The legal team at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) in Mexico is led by Roman Ajzen, a well-regarded US-trained lawyer, who is general counsel of FIBRA Macquarie Mexico and...
| thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions (México)
On 1 April 2014 thyssenkrupp Uhde Mexico and Polysius of Mexico merged into a single company to form thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions Mexico. As thyssenkrupp is still headquartered in Germany, Mexican...
| Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA)
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) is a leading global alternative asset manager specialising in infrastructure funds, other real asset funds and customised accounts. The most senior lawyer for MIRA...
Vice president - legal, finance and fleet | Aeroméxico
A specialist aviation lawyer, Carlos Hassey Artigas has accumulated experience which is multifaceted in nature as it includes regulatory, commercial, tax, and liability issues. His legal career began as an...
general counsel | Piaggio & C. SpA
Having made ‘substantial changes’ to the Piaggio group legal department, Ulisse Spada presides over a function organised into three main areas of practice, marking a change to the previous structure...
vice president legal affairs Italy | AstraZeneca
Simone Massenti is vice president of legal affairs for Italy at the multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. With a wealth of in-house legal experience and strong expertise in the pharmaceuticals sector,...
| National Asset Management Agency (NAMA)
Headquartered in Tralee, public food company Kerry Group control some of Ireland’s most well-known brands including Wall’s, Mattessons and Cheesestrings. Posting a revenue figure of €6bn in 2015 and employing...
Executive director of legal | Haitong Bank
‘The biggest achievement of my career is to feel, on a day-to-day basis that my colleagues from other areas of the bank, as well as board members ask for my...
Director legal | Globalfoundries
Dirk Gasse is director of legal at Globalfoundries, a US semi-conductor manufacturer which until 2009 had been part of US chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and is now owned...
chief legal officer | Ubisoft
Cécile Russeil first joined video game developer and publisher Ubisoft in 1990, as personal assistant to the CEO. Without a legal background or training she started working on all major...
Deputy general counsel – Diversification | TF1 Group
Jérémy Rousseau joined the litigation department of TF1, a private French television channel, in 2001 where he dealt with the contentious press, criminal offences and the litigation for the business’...
deputy general counsel | Fives Group
Philippe Chavasse has, with the assistance of the IT services of Fives Group, interweaved technology modernisation throughout the legal department. A software application allows him to have a clear interpretation...
| Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF)
HRADF‘s establishment in 2011 in order to manage a large number of state assets has been successful in creating public wealth through privatisation of government assets. ‘Acting with a high...
| SURA Asset Management
Comprised of six lawyers, the Medellín-based regional legal team at SURA Asset Management is tasked with implementing strategic projects and transactions for the company and forming synergies with legal teams...
| Janssen-Cilag Pharmaceutical
Janssen-Cilag Pharmaceutical is a subsidiary of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company, founded in the early 1990s after a merger between Janssen Pharmaceutical and Cilag. Led by legal director Felipe...
Group general counsel | Veon
Highly recognised for his contribution to the media, technology and telecoms sectors, Scott Dresser has gained an unparalleled reputation for leadership in complex corporate transformations. Dresser, who oversees VEON’s 300-strong...
General counsel | McDonald’s Singapore
In line with the company’s ethos of win, lead and serve, Faz Hussen’s legal team at McDonald’s has been concerned with post-deal consolidation following the major S$400m deal for 20-year...
General counsel | Richemont
Cedric Bossert has been in charge of the Richemont legal team, offering integral support that allows Richemont Maisons to enter new markets swiftly and effectively. Richemont is the Swiss owner...
| Asseco Data Systems
Asseco Poland is the largest software producer listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, and is also one of the largest producers of software globally, operating in 43 countries. One of...
| Kommunal Landspensjonskasse Gjensidig Forsikringsselskap (KLP)
KLP is Norway’s largest life insurance and pension company with an annual turnover of NOK 650bn and almost 1,000 employees. It offers a wide range of pension, life insurance and...
| UBS Asset Management
Markus Ratz, head of legal transactions EMEA for UBS Asset Management has been taking an innovative approach to its use of external counsel: ‘We decided to set up an exclusive...
| thyseenkrupp
The 210-strong thyssenkrupp legal function has been a powerful force for innovation within the company, as group general counsel Arne Wittig explains: ‘During the past two years, thyssenkrupp’s legal department...
| Credit Suisse
Comprising of 20 lawyers across Singapore and Hong Kong that cover all of the Asia Pacific jurisdictions, the Credit Suisse Global Markets legal team provide legal, regulatory and transactional support...
| Power Assets Holdings
Power Assets Holdings, a Hong Kong based investment company, through HK Electric Investments and CK Hutchinson Group, holds 33.37% of The Hong Kong Electric Company (HK Electric). Founded in 1889,...
| SURA Asset Management
Grupo SURA is the holding company of the Colombian financial conglomerate Conglomerado Financiero SURA-Bancolombia, as well as the controlling company of the Grupo SURA business group (“Grupo Empresarial SURA”) which...
| China Cinda Asset Management
China Cinda Asset Management’s legal team is regarded as among the very best in the Chinese market, winning an industry award for best in-house legal team in the state-owned enterprise...
| Pictet Asset Management
With offices in 17 countries and with business activities in 50 countries, the Pictet Asset management legal team is spread across Geneva, Luxembourg, London and Hong Kong with heads of...
| Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse occupies a highly prominent position in Switzerland’s financial market, as a renowned and leading multinational investment bank and financial services. Its legal team is led by general counsel...
| CSFG International Asset Management
China Shandong Hi-Speed Financial Group (CSFG), the parent of CSFG International Asset Management, is a financial holding institution listed on the main board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange since April...
| Credit Suisse (Hong Kong) – Investment Banking and Capital Markets (IBCM)
Leading a team of six lawyers, David Chu is the managing director and head of Credit Suisse’s IBCM team in Asia Pacific, as well as the general counsel for Hong...
| China Orient Asset Management (International) Holding
Described by a nominator as ‘technically sound with strong business skills to boot’, head of legal at China Orient Asset Management (International) Holding Jin Zhai has oversight of all of...
| National Asset Management Agency
The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) has one of the largest in-house legal teams in Ireland, with 48 individuals across four divisions: residential delivery; deleveraging; litigation, asset management and investments;...
| Sparkasse
Formed in September 2016, Sparkasse’s legal team is focused on providing legal advice to all business units of the bank and covers all aspects of banking and financial law, litigations...
| thyssenkrupp India
thyssenkrupp, a diversified industrial group with a global turnover of approximately €39bn (2015-16) is headquartered in Essen, Germany. In India, thyssenkrupp has grown to become one of the most trusted...
| Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) Asia
With an ethos conducive to delivering commercially-driven advice with efficient handling of the company’s legal matters, MIRA Asia’s legal team play an integral role for the world’s largest infrastructure asset...
| Credit Suisse - Investment Banking and Capital Markets Division
Credit Suisse’s Asia Pacific investment banking and capital markets (IBCM) division is renowned in financial circles for its effectiveness, underpinned by the support of a top-quality legal team. Director Adrian...
Senior vice president legal and deputy general counsel | Grupo Aeroméxico
Carlos Hassey Artigas is an integral member of the Grupo Aeroméxico in-house legal team in his position of senior vice president legal and deputy general counsel, and lays out the...
Senior legal advisor | Hermes Airports
Hermes Airports manages and controls Larnaka International Airport and Pafos International Airport under a 25 year Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) concession agreement made with the Republic of Cyprus in 2006. Odysseas Frenaritis...
Executive director, CEO office, credit advisory | Haitong Bank
Haitong Bank is a Chinese financial institution that is one of the leading investment banks and securities firms in China, and has a wide range of investment banking services for...
Chief legal officer | Ubisoft
Cécile Russeil has had an incredibly long and successful time with Ubisoft, having spent over 27 years with the company which has taken up the entirety of her career. Now...
General counsel | Fives
Philippe Chavasse’s journey within Fives, a French company specialised in the export of equipment, plants and turnkey projects, has been extremely noteworthy and impressive. He started his career as a...
Group general counsel | Safran
In the position of group general counsel at major aerospace, defence and technology powerhouse Safran since June 2016, Coralie Bouscasse’s career began in earnest in 1985, when she became deputy...
| Investec Asset Management
Since it was founded in 1991, the South Africa-based asset management arm of Investec has developed a worldwide reputation for market-leading investment products. The company has grown rapidly and, as...
Vice president legal counsel and corporate secretariat | Ethiopian Airlines
Genanaw Assefa leads the legal team of Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s largest and most profitable airline. Assefa joined Ethiopian Airlines in 2008 as assistant general counsel and worked his way up...
Chief legal officer | Dubai International Financial Centre Authority
Jacques Visser heads the legal affairs division of the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority (DIFC Authority), and holds the position of secretary to the DIFC higher board and the boards...
Head of legal department | ALARGAN International Real Estate Company
A legal counsel with over 14 years of experience, Hussein Saleh has demonstrated a capacity to combine his knowledge and proficiency of different areas of the law to provide a...
Chief legal advisor | Al Rajhi Bank
A hugely experienced lawyer, Siddig Hussein has spent time in academic, private practice, legislative and in-house legal roles. As such, he contributes a wealth of experience to Al Rajhi Bank’s...
Director – legal and compliance Middle East and North Africa | Adidas emerging markets
An expert in JVs, corporate, commercial and companies’ laws, franchise agreements and compliance matters, Mona Hussein has operated in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait during the course of her career....
Chief legal officer & board secretary | Qatar Financial Centre
Nasser Al-Taweel’s rapid rise to his current position as chief legal officer and secretary to the board at the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Authority – preceded by a number of...
For Britain’s second-largest energy supplier, 2017 was a year of upheaval after it unveiled an ambitious merger with Npower. For GC Liz Tanner and her legal team, the combination threw up numerous challenges, not least reorganising the team. Stuart Waddell, previously SSE’s head of legal for wholesale and corporate, will become director of legal services on a 12-month interim basis while Tanner and the rest of the team manage the Npower merger. Such is the scale of the integration task, Tanner is required to give it her full attention. Before the merger-induced shuffle, Waddell was one of six legal heads reporting to Tanner, alongside disputes head Gaby Dosanjh-Pahil, networks head Mark McLaughlin, data protection head Janet Cursi, enterprise head Brian Sharma and retail head Laura McVean. There are legal ramifications as well, with Tanner pointing to the ongoing Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) review process into the tie-up. A trading update for the third quarter of 2017 revealed that SSE had been in ‘pre-notification discussions’ with the CMA, but that the merger ‘remains on course to be completed by the last quarter of 2018 or the first quarter of 2019.’ A distinctive feature of Tanner’s team is the prominent use of secondees. She says: ‘We find secondments really useful because they give the lawyers something new and different to do for a period of time. We are shuffling the deck a bit and allowing lawyers to step into roles on a project, then they can step back. It’s about getting a wider understanding of the commercial pressures clients are under. We ensure the lawyers are invited to meetings so it breaks down the barriers between the in-house team and external lawyers.’ Aside from standard legal work, she says that her in-house team has been aided by a fresh focus on technology. ‘We are halfway through a project implementing a new document-management system, which gives us great auditing ability and the ability to track advice. We will be using it for all of our property, litigation and commercial matters. The system, coupled with our new billing, means our lawyers can work in an agile way. They’ve got full visibility of all their records on their laptops, iPads and remote devices.’