Middle East Teams 2016
| 3M
3M
| 3M Philippines
| 3M Company
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? Our legal department is structured to render strategic and business legal...
| 3M España
Described as a ‘deeply rooted in the commercial and business structure of the company’, the Iberian legal team of multinational conglomerate 3M is praised by nominators for its work as...
Halil İbrahim Kardıçalı, general counsel and government affairs manager, and Müge Yılmaz, legal counsel, make up the legal team at 3M in Turkey, the local domestic division of the multinational...
| 3M Türkiye
With a complex business set up in its Turkish subsidiary, US multinational conglomerate 3M is undergoing extensive change. The Turkish legal team, led by general counsel Halil Ibrahim Kardicali, has...
| 3M Perú
The 3M Perú legal team supports the wide range of legal activities of the multinational conglomerate in the Andean region, covering the manufacture and distribution of home care, abrasive, chemical,...
| 3M Mexico
The expert in-house legal team at 3M Mexico consists of five members including general counsel Ivan Enrique Rojas Loynaz, and conscientiously supports the healthcare business, government affairs and compliance department...
3M is a global science and technology company that specialises in creating new technology to improve consumer products, particularly in adhesives for home, office and medical applications, and technological solutions....
| 3M Italia
3M Italia is part of the South East Europe region (SEER) of 3M which belongs to the broader EMEA region and comprises of 17 countries in total. ‘We operate in...
| 3M Central America
3M’s highly significant global operations account for around $30bn in revenue and provide employment for over 90,000 people globally on the back of a highly diversified operation. The company’s revenue...
| 3M Thailand
3M’s Southeast Asia legal team has grown exponentially since 2015. From only one country lawyer in Singapore and one country lawyer in Thailand at this time, it now has eight...
Manufacturing company 3M generates $30bn in annual sales, employs 90,000 people worldwide and produces more than 55,000 products. Operating as the organisation’s local subsidiary, 3M Argentina manufactures pharmaceutical products in...
Producer of a vast portfolio of products ranging from car wax to healthcare and industrial products, US-based multinational 3M has diverse and complex operations across the Middle East and North Africa. When Walid Sowaidan, 3M’s general counsel for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA), joined the company in 2007 he was the sole counsel for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. By 2009 the team began expanding and now holds more than 15 lawyers and a number of paralegals divided amongst the numerous regional markets 3M operates in. This geographical diversity has forced Sowaidan and his team think about new ways of communicating and pooling information. At the same time, each member of the team operates with a level of autonomy that can only come from mutual trust, something nominators said was indicative of the efforts that have gone into building a supportive culture across the organisation. Further growth in the team has come with the newly established government relations function. The Middle East and Africa (MEA) regional government affairs function now has three staff building and maintaining relationships. Recent initiatives of the 3M legal team include a new “Policy Alignment” strategy to bring company policies into synchronisation across the MEA region while also meeting the varying requirements of local law. This initiative has helped the legal team to reduce its workload when analysing risks but has also played a crucial role in opening up new commercial opportunities by allowing business to move more rapidly in the region.
