Iberia Teams 2019
| NEC
NEC
Directeur juridique | CBRE
| AstraZeneca
Chief legal officer | Ferrero International
General counsel and member of the executive committee and global executive board | Partners Group
Chief legal officer | Ferrero International
Fabrizio is not only an outstanding legal practitioner with a wealth of legal knowledge and expertise, he has also led Ferrero’s legal team of over 100 people to a degree...
Executive director - head of legal Colombia | JP Morgan
Chief legal officer | Ferrero International
Head of legal & compliance, country general counsel | Vaillant Group
Necati Karabayır joined Vaillant, an internationally operating heating, ventilation and air-conditioning technology in 2013, after leaving Siemens. An ambitious individual, it took Necati just eight years to reach the level...
| TE Connectivity
TE Connectivity’s strategy map puts emphasis on serving as a premier partner for customers, delivering superior returns for shareholders and retaining a highly engaged employee base in a bid to...
General Counsel and Member of the Executive Committee and Global Executive Board | Partners Group Holding AG
Andreas Knecht built the legal team at Partners Group Holding AG from a team of three to 25 over the last six years. Whilst doing so, he made several adjustments...
| Virgin Connect
The Russian telecom operator Virgin Connect has a worldwide reputation for the provision of internet and telecommunication services to both individuals and business clients across the country. It has a...
| AstraZeneca
One of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the Gulf, AstraZeneca fulfils a critical role in developing, testing and bringing to market effective drugs and remedies, and often engages in cooperative...
| Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC)
The government-owned Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC) has a portfolio that includes well known venues such as Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, ExCeL London, Al Ain Convention Centre and...
Chief legal officer | Adecoagro
Adecoagro’s chief legal officer for Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, Emilio Gnecco has been a member of the company’s senior management since 2005. Formerly in private practice at The Legal 500...
chief legal officer | Ferrero International
Fabrizio Minneci, chief legal officer at Ferrero, the global consumer goods company privately owned by the Ferrero family, boasts a remarkable legal career of over two decades. Starting out as...
| Virgin Connect
Virgin Group’s Russian subsidiary Virgin Connect provides broadband internet access and telephony services to retail and business customers in 20 regions of the country. The company’s lean legal team led...
| TE Connectivity
TE Connectivity is a US$12bn global technology leader, providing connectivity with sensor solutions that are essential in today’s connected world. In China, the company’s 2,000 engineers work with local customers...
| TE Connectivity
The TE Connectivity legal team stands out for being able to actively advise the business on innovative ways to help to grow the intellectual property portfolio while tackling the importance...
Chief legal officer | Ferrero Group
Fabrizio Minneci is Ferrero Group’s chief legal officer, and has an additional position at the global confectionary manufacturer as a member of its board of directors. Minneci joined the Ferrero...
| AstraZeneca
Having a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company. It has a strong...
| AstraZeneca
‘We are business partners, providing valuable, creative and ethical solutions. This team vision was developed after an intensive team work activity, which started from our core values, and determined also...
Legal counsel | J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan in Colombia has a local presence through J.P. Morgan Corporación Financiera, a credit institution established in the country since 2006, supervised by the Financial Superintendence of Colombia and...
Head of legal and compliance, country general counsel | Vaillant Group
Experienced head of legal and compliance, Necati Karabayir has a demonstrated history within the renewables, energy and durable goods industry. Skilled in negotiation, international law, legal compliance, arbitration and competition...
Creating social value through human and digital interaction is NEC’s ambitious vision. NEC is committed to inaugurate a new era for telecom operators, to empower smart enterprises and to carry forward more innovations for a better and safer society. Managing the risks connected with business transactions to enable management to make informed strategic choices is the mission of the NEC legal and compliance team in Spain. Led by Marina Bugallal, the NEC legal and compliance team is a multicultural team, which actively assist the business throughout decision-making processes, assessing and mitigating risks, fostering compliance with the applicable rules and reflecting the culture of the Japanese parent company, characterised by high ethical standards. The team is inspired by the willingness to balance compliance and business needs. ‘The NEC legal and compliance team designs and implements compliance policies aligned with general guidelines provided by the Japanese headquarter, without prejudice of the flexibility and the adaptability required by the local competitive business environment’, Marina Bugallal says. Taking advantage of its cultural diversity, the team has a multidisciplinary and business-oriented approach, which allows its counsel to assist several different business units, both in the private sector and in the public sector. Relevant examples, in this regard, are the legal advice provided for the implementation of the rules set forth by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), alongside the legal advice provided to the business units in charge of the so called “Smart City” projects in Spain and Portugal. In particular, the first example clearly proves the NEC legal and compliance team’s ability to cope with new legal challenges posed by innovative cutting-edges technologies. Under the supervision of its data protection officer, Beatriz Ruiz-Beato, the team tackled issues connected with the application of data protection rules to new technologies in the IT sector. Regarding the second example, Marina Bugallal points out that, ‘the competitiveness of this new sector compels our team to cope with unprecedented legal challenges, such as the ones that we faced in the Smart City projects carried out in Santander and Lisbon’. In the light of the above, the legal department modernised its procedures, adopting new solutions able to improve the effectiveness of its day-to-day work. Furthermore, it improved its teamwork in order to share knowledge and have constant updates on the current situation of NEC’s business all over EMEA. The team focused on knowledge management tools, dedicating specific attention to the standardisation of internal procedures, according to the best standards of the market. The final goal is to provide clear and tangible results, coherently with the above-mentioned business-oriented approach and with the company’s culture overall.
