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Company Secretary and Legal Advisor | Brassieres et Limonaderies du Burundi Brarudi
Group legal director | BA Glass
Head of legal | Refurbed Group
Vice president legal and general counsel Magna Steyr | Magna International
Legal director | Google
Legal and executive director | Docas Investimento
Chief legal, ethics and compliance officer | Ambev
Legal counsel | Batıçim Batı Anadolu Çimento Sanayii
Lead regional counsel, legal, ethics and compliance for Southern Europe | Visa
Head of legal affairs | The Walt Disney Company
Corporate affairs and legal director | Belmond
Vice president, general counsel | Rockwool
General counsel | Novo Nordisk Holding
Legal counsel, attorney-at-law | Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
Group general counsel and member of the executive board | UBS
General counsel | Tillotts Pharma
General counsel corporate, M&A and finance, and vice president | gategroup
Group general counsel and secretary of the board | Galenica
Corporate social responsibility officer | UNICEF
Legal and expansion director | Bupa México
Head of legal and compliance, co-head of Tristan Luxembourg officer, managing director | Tristan Capital Partners
Legal director Europe, associate general counsel | Amazon
Director, legal and secretariat services | Tshwaledi Investments
Chief legal officer, company secretary | BUA Cement
Senior legal counsel LADMAR - Panama | Procter & Gamble
General counsel | Alfa
Senior Counsel - litigation | Chegg
Group general counsel | Française des Jeux
General Counsel | Inter American University
General counsel | Chicago Cubs
Head of legal | Secuoya Studios
Legal counsel | Australian Red Cross
General counsel, Phosphate | Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma'aden)
General counsel | Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company
Head of legal – Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and Pakistan | J.P. Morgan
Chief legal and government affairs officer and board secretary | Cruise Saudi
Legal manager | Seguros Equinoccial
| Airbnb Singapore
Legal advisor | Cash
General counsel | BBVA Uruguay
Head of legal | Eni
Chief legal officer | Volaris
Legal and business development director | Bupa México
Legal head Andean, Central America and the Caribbean | Sanofi
Corporate legal manager LATAM | Manuelita
General counsel | ISAGEN
Legal vice president and corporate secretary | Arthur J. Gallagher
Legal manager, Chile and Perú | Unilever
Head of legal Japan and Korea | Nippon Becton Dickinson
Legal head | MPT Mobility
Country legal counsel | Grab
Group legal director | BA Glass
| Arbejdernes Landsbank
| Wienerberger
| Verbund
| Refurbed
Regional director of legal, brand protection, privacy and corporate security | Diageo
Legal director | Bayer
General counsel | B3
Chief legal, ethics and compliance officer | Ambev
Group general counsel and member of the executive board | UBS
General counsel | Tillots Pharma
Senior legal counsel | Roche
Barbara Schroeder de Castro Lopes possesses decades of diverse legal experience, gained from the Swiss federal government and judiciary and a leading Swiss law firm. For over five years,...
General counsel, corporate M&A and finance | gategroup
Group general counsel and secretary of the board | Galenica
Head of contract management and legal | VolkerWessels Bouw & Vastgoedontwikkeling
Head of legal and associate general counsel | Shell
Associate general counsel, executive director | Amgen
Legal director Europe, associate general counsel | Amazon
Lead regional counsel – Southern Europe | Visa
Head of legal affairs | The Walt Disney Company
Legal Director GCC, Türkiye & Israel | Johnson & Johnson
Senior - International Tax and Transaction Services | EY
Senior legal counsel LADMAR - Panama | Procter & Gamble
Associate counsel, acquisitions and divestments and new business development | Shell Australia
Head of legal – Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and Pakistan | J.P. Morgan
General counsel, phosphate and industrial minerals | Ma'aden
Head of legal, strategy and M&A | Bupa México
General counsel | BBVA
Legal advisor | Cash
Directors of legal affairs | Laboratorios Richmond SACIF
Legal and governance manager | Lake Resources
Legal manager Chile and Perú | Unilever
Legal counsel | Diageo
Legal and corporate affairs manager | Statkraft Perú
Legal and natural resources manager | Southern Peru Copper Corporation - SPCC
Head of legal | Graña y Montero
Group general counsel | ISAGEN
Legal vice president and secretary general | Arthur J. Gallagher Colombia
Executive director | Raiffeisen Bank
Head of legal | Refurbed
General counsel and chief legal and compliance director | Habitat Inmobiliaria
General counsel | VolkerWessels Bouw & Vastgoed Ontwikkeling
Senior counsel, legal director | amgen
Senior legal counsel LADMAR - Panama | Procter & Gamble
Lead regional counsel | Visa
Associate Counsel (M&A) | Shell Australia
Senior legal counsel | Poste italiane
General Counsel | Novo holdings
Group General Counsel | Flüger group A/S
Group general counsel and member of the group executive board | UBS
General counsel | Tillotts Pharma AG
Chief counsel | Financial Services Compensation Scheme
Team size: 15 Major legal advisers: Addleshaw Goddard, Bevan Brittan, Burges Salmon, Burness Paull, Clifford Chance, Dentons and Eversheds Sutherland What are the most important transactions, litigations, or other major...
Chief legal officer and external affairs | Rio Tinto
Executive vice president, general counsel | IQVIA
Head of legal | The Walt Disney Company
What have been the major external trends that have impacted your team’s work over the past two years (market developments, changing regulatory environment, political events etc.)? First of all, my...
| RBS Services India
Can you highlight the key individuals and their role within the department? Amar Sundram (head of legal, corporate governance and regulatory affairs) is managing legal affairs for RBS India, RBS...
| RBL Bank
| Airbus Group India
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured? Airbus in India has a strong presence across its three business divisions (commercial aircraft, helicopters, defence and space). The customer...
General counsel | Elbrus Capital
What do you feel are the most effective techniques for getting the most out of external counsel, in terms of how to instruct them? I spent eight years of my...
Head of legal | Zeotap
After five years in private practice with Noerr in Poland and Germany, Barbara Radon moved in-house with fintech startup Spotcap before joining zeotap in 2018. She possesses academic knowledge through...
General counsel | Elkem ASA
In what ways do you see the in-house legal role evolving in your region over the next few years? It seems that more and more companies have learned to appreciate...
Executive director and senior country counsel – Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey | JPMorgan Chase Bank
In position as head of legal for the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey – as well as senior country counsel for Luxembourg – at JPMorgan Chase since 2012,...
Legal manager | Unilever
Chile is an important market for global consumer goods company Unilever within its Southern Cone operations. And to fortify its business, Unilever Chile relies on the expertise of general counsel...
Chief counsel | Quiñenco
Formerly an associate professor of civil law at Universidad Católica de Chile, Rodrigo Hinzpeter Kirberg’s professional career has seen him specialise in corporate law, acquisitions, mergers, and financial matters. Hinzpeter...
| Sociedade Interbancária de Serviços
Made up of 14 members from four different nationalities, the Spanish legal department at Siemens is an ‘international team embedded within, and trusted by, the business’, according to general counsel...
| Grupo Urbaser
‘We are lawyers devoted to the business, helping to create, generate, strengthen and protect the company,’ says Santiago Sainz de Baranda y Casado, head of the corporate legal unit at...
| Airbus
Airbus is the leader in Spain’s aerospace and defence sector, with its annual sales of approximately €5bn accounting for 64% of the total revenue in the industry within the country....
| Grupo Urbaser
Urbaser started its activities in 1990 with the creation of Técnicas Medioambientales Tecmed, a company created to provide added value services to town councils and local corporations in the field...
Group General Counsel | Swisscanto Asset Management AG
‘My duty is not to be the best of the best, it’s to have the responsibility to allow everyone to feel comfortable in the work environment’. Markus Erb goes on...
| Sberbank of Russia
As Sberbank is the largest banking entity not only in Russia, but also in the entire of Eastern Europe, a strong legal team is necessary to support the successful operation...
General Counsel Cluster Russia and Central Asia | Siemens AG
As Siemens’ Russia and Central Asia general counsel, Svetlana Gerbel has supported various business lines, including healthcare, energy and industrial automation. ‘It is hardly possible to find any other company,...
| Urbanova Inmobiliaria - Grupo Breca
Led by general counsel Paul Ramsey, the Urbanova Inmobiliaria legal team assists the company in keeping abreast of the latest legal and regulatory trends in urban and real estate development....
| Interbank
Banco Internacional del Perú (Interbank) is an open-stock corporation organised under the laws of Peru and is part of Intercorp Peru, one of Peru’s largest economic conglomerates, with activities spanning...
Head of legal (infrastructure projects and paving) | Lemminkäinen Infra
An experienced lawyer, Suvi Sasi-Gouatarbès worked in a number of legal roles prior to joining Lemminkäinen, a Finnish construction and infrastructure company with approximately 1,500 employees. These experiences range from...
General counsel | Novamedia Sverige AB
Anna Bülow Zetterberg joined Novamedia Sverige AB in September 2012 having worked as an associate at law firms, Cederquist and Lindahl. Whilst at Lindalh, Bülow Zetterberg got a taste of...
| Airbus Defence and Space
Airbus Defence and Space finds itself operating in a classic counter-cyclical environment where increased geopolitical tensions are contributing to military sales while the fall in oil prices puts a drag...
general counsel and chief corporate affairs officer | King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), Saudi Arabia
Supporting one-of-its-kind ‘megaproject’ King Abdullah Economic City, general counsel Hani Gharbawi is in a unique position, particularly given his broad remit of responsibility. ‘The type of work the team is...
General counsel | Banamex
Having worked in top in-house positions since 1995, Alejandro de Iturbide was nominated for having ‘great experience in the financial sector and a long trajectory as in-house counsel’. Between 1995...
Vice president and general counsel | IEnova
With an in-house career that began in 1989, René Buentello Carbonell is vastly experienced in the natural resources sector. His first 13 years were spent in the industrial division of...
General counsel for the Americas | IC Power
With experience in both private practice and the public sector (notably as director general of legal affairs at the Ministry of the Presidency), Daniel Urbina moved in-house in 2000, occupying...
Head of legal | Ultrapar Participações
Chief legal officer at multi-business company Ultrapar Participações, since 2008, Sandra López Gorbe has built a reputation for being ‘a leader in best practices in the corporate governance and compliance...
Intellectual property director for the Americas | Red Bull
Gonzalo Barboza began his career at Argentine firm Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martínez de Hoz (h) before spending two years with Hogan Lovells in Spain. Moving in house...
Legal director for Latin America | Pirelli Tyres
Patricia Barbelli has more than a decade’s experience in house, initially at PepsiCo, and subsequently at Bayer where she rose to senior legal manager. Since 2011, she has been Latin...
general counsel | Aedes SiiQ
Established in 1905, Aedes was the first real estate holding company to be listed on the Milan stock exchange. A seasoned real estate lawyer with a strong understanding of asset...
Corporate counsel and manager – legal and intellectual property | Canon España
During her decade-long tenure at Canon España, Begoña Barbera-Martin has created a strong and trusted legal department that is always available and ready to contribute to the company’s growth. ‘In...
Managing director of corporate markets and corporate governance, head of the technical office and legal, secretary of the board | Telefónica
During her time at the IBEX 35 listed Spanish multinational company, Consuelo Barbé Capdevila has been involved in some of Telefónica’s most pivotal transactions, including the ground-breaking merger of Telefónica...
| Airbus
Airbus is one of the most prominent companies in the aerospace and defence sectors, operating a number of companies that produce aircraft, spacecraft and associated systems for the military and...
group general counsel | Primonial
Marilyne Sullet-Duverbecq spent time working at law firms in France, Monaco and Italy, prior to her in-house stint in 2000 where she launched the legal department for the Neurocom Group,...
| STASY (Urban Rail Transport)
Urban Rail Transport was founded in June 2011, and incorporated three rail companies that had existed up to that point: AMEL (a metro system operator), ISAP (an urban railway), and...
| Eurolife ERB
Konstantinos Antonakis, general counsel, leads the legal team at Eurolife ERB Group, in Greece which is made up of the life insurance and general insurance divisions. Antonakis is a capable...
| Grupo Orbis
Based in Colombia, where it traces its history back to 1921, Grupo Orbis is a multinational company that has major operations centred on paints, chemicals and the production of water...
Legal Manager | Sanofi Aventis de Colombia
Ana Maria Arbelaez joined Sanofi Aventis de Colombia (Sanofi) in 2012, just as the French-headquartered multinational was consolidating its place as the one of the region’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers following...
General counsel and corporate secretary | Centerra Gold
Frank Herbert has experience in the mining and natural resources industries spanning over 25 years. He joined Centerra as general counsel in 2004 and was appointed president in 2015. Herbert...
Vice president and general counsel | Acklands-Grainger
Kevin Derbyshire, vice president and general counsel at industrial supply company Acklands-Grainger, is responsible for all legal matters and, as of October, 2013, the company’s corporate global real estate and...
| Airbnb
Airbnb recently identified Latin America as the fastest growing market for its business of connecting travellers to people who have a space to rent in their homes and want extra...
Head of Legal | Ultrapar
Before joining Ultrapar in 2008, Sandra Lopez Gorbe accumulated experience from various other large listed companies including two years in Merrill Lynch São Paulo, as well as law firms across...
Legal Director | Whirlpool Latin America
Seasoned lawyer Patricia Barbelli is the legal director at Whirlpool Latin America, an international home appliances provide. She is proficient in a wide range of areas including contracts, litigation, tax,...
Legal Director | Monsanto Brasil
Legal director Erica Barbagalo leads a team of 23 employees at Monsanto Brasil, an agriculture and biotechnology company. Barbagalo has been praised for her role in revolutionising the legal department...
Head of legal/managing counsel | Shell
Managing a 20-strong cross-border team, Peter Lorbeer leads all upstream activity in Australia and is director of its national upstream holdings company. Shell Australia is the centre for the company’s...
General counsel, executive manager of the legal and governance business unit (and company secretary) | Western Power
Valued for his energy, ‘drive’ and ‘common sense approach’, Sam Barbaro has achieved a great deal in a short space of time. Less than a year ago, he was a...
| Transurban
Despite only being established since 1996, Transurban is a top 20 company on the Australian Securities Exchange. It manages and develops urban toll road networks in both Australia and the...
General counsel – Argentina | Siemens
With a long in-house tenure that has seen her undertake roles at several large companies, Barbara Maggi is currently the general counsel for Siemens in Argentina, a position that she...
Senior counsel, legal director | Amgen
Nicolas Pourbaix’s role as senior counsel, legal director for multinational biopharmaceutical company Amgen, is a hybrid between a specialised anti-trust counsel, involving him advising the business on all areas of...
Associate director, loans and specialised finance, loan structuring and execution | ANZ
Barbara Carroll has gained experience as a banking and finance lawyer having acted on a range of high value and complex transactions. She currently serves as an associate director, at...
South America law lead | Monsanto
Erica Barbagalo leads the legal department at Monsanto, a large international pharmaceutical company and has overseen its transition following the acquisition by Bayer. During this process Barbagalo worked closely with...
| UniCredit Bank Serbia
The legal team of the Serbian branch of global financial services firm UniCredit is led by Gligorije Brajković, who is not only the head of legal department but is also...
| Telenor Serbia
Telenor – the Norwegian telecommunications giant – has highly active and lucrative operations in Serbia, and stands as one of the preeminent mobile network operators in the country, with almost...
| Sberbank Hungary
Sberbank Hungary, the Hungarian subsidiary of the major state-owned Russian banking services company Sberbank Group, is a leading financial services group operating across the CEE and Russia. Since 1993, Sberbank...
| Air Serbia
General counsel and company secretary Branko Gabric leads the legal and ethics & compliance departments at Air Serbia, Serbia’s national flag carrier airline. The team works on all legal and...
| Sberbank of Russia
Sberbank is central to the Russian Federation’s financial planning, and its majority ownership by the state is enshrined in legislation. This provides the company’s legal function with a unique set...
Associate counsel | Shell Australia
Peter Lorbeer serves as an associate counsel with a remit across the Asia Pacific region for oil and gas behemoth Shell, focused on M&A deal making and other commercial legal...
| Reckitt Benckiser (RB)
RB’s vast product portfolio and exposure to Middle Eastern markets means its legal function possess the skills to spot and handle risks before they develop further. Regional legal and compliance...
| Airbus Africa and Middle East
Airbus’ legal team for Africa and Middle East came into existence only recently, when the company decided to create dedicated teams for each region. At present the company employs a...
| Starbucks
Founded in 1971, Starbucks operates over 30,000 locations worldwide as of early 2019. It opened its first store in Hong Kong in 2000. The Starbucks legal team in Hong Kong...
| OtterBox
OtterBox’s small but highly skilled legal team is led by general counsel Claire Lyons, who has overseen EMEA legal duties for over five and a half years, prior to which...
| Airbus
A company which is among the most famous in the world, Airbus boasts a legal and compliance team to match its stellar reputation, with approximately 450 individuals globally, Airbus has...
General counsel | Novamedia Sverige
Since 2012, Anna Bülow Zetterberg has been general counsel of Novamedia Sverige, a leading media and publishing company based in Sweden with a large European reach. It specialises in charity...
| Söderberg & Partners
A six-person function made up of five lawyers and a paralegal, the legal department of Swedish financial services firm Söderberg & Partners is described by its head of legal Julia...
Assistant general counsel (Colombia, Peru and Venezuela) and CRB co-lead (Latin America) | Willis Towers Watson
Fabian Moreno Barbosa, has been the assistant general counsel for Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela at Willis Towers Watson since 2014. Before this he was an attorney at the Colombian Insurance...
General counsel | TV2 Norway
Commercially minded media law expert Tomas Myrboastad has a large range of experience and specialism in regulatory issues for digital technology and content distribution with more than ten years in...
| Sime Darby
Group general counsel of Sime Darby, Choo Suit Mae, sums up the ethos of her legal team as being to ‘support the business and strive to be strategic partners to...
Director and executive vice president of the legal and regulatory division | Rimac Seguros y Reaseguros
A close confidant to the most senior professionals within Peruvian insurance company RIMAC Seguros, Luis Javier Venturo Urbina is not only the lead lawyer in the group as evidenced by...
Legal affairs manager | Statkraft Perú
Veronica Arbulu joined the multinational renewable energy generation business Statkraft at a time of significant change and transformation for the legal department, and after instantly impressing her colleagues with her...
Executive vice-president and general counsel | IEnova
Occupying a position that encompasses both legal and commercial counsel within the upper echelons of the business at IEnova, a Mexican energy infrastructure company, René Buentello Carbonell is an experienced...
Corporate lawyer | Pantos Logistics Mexico
A corporate lawyer of repute, Ahiram Sarai Barbosa Celis has a track record of providing excellent legal and business advice in a number of roles. She currently ‘reviews all contracts...
Chief legal officer | Liverpool
Known throughout the country, Liverpool is a retailer which operates the largest chain of department stores in Mexico. As chief legal officer for this distinguished brand, Norberto Aranzábal has been...
General manager: legal services and comliance | BMW South Africa
Vimla Parbhoo is the general manager for legal services and compliance for global automobile giant BMW in South Africa and the sub-Saharan African region, where she utilises 16 years of...
General counsel | Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas)
Ghana National Gas’ takeover by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) was approved in 2014, with the aim of building a more integrated approach to financing national oil and gas...
With a team of eight staff broken down into five lawyers and three non-legal staff, Ana Carolina Pescarmona is the head of legal and compliance for multinational consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser (RB) in Brazil. RB recently acquired Hypermarcas’ Brazilian condom and lubricants business which, in addition to the Jontex and Olla brands, is said to be transformative for RB’s sexual wellbeing category in Brazil. Pescarmona is proud of her team’s internal recognition, stating that the legal team is ‘recognised as an important business partner and [is] very engaged with the leadership team as fundamental part of the decision making process’. Operating with this close relationship to upper management, the team also enjoys relations with other business units and is expected to not only guide and advise on corporate strategic decisions but to ensure the ‘reinforcement of the compliance mind-set all over the company’. In adding this value to the business, Pescarmona is keen to emphasize the innovative tool implemented that ‘communicates and monitors all new challenges to the brands that were impacted due to competitor’s strategies, which was fundamental to demonstrate how the legal department can add value to the business’. The aforementioned acquisitions of the Jontex and Olla brands, in addition to adding the Naldecon, Dermodex and Luftal brands to RB’s portfolio have all been individual successes for the legal team, but its impact has been felt in other ways. Recent innovations by the team include a new compliance program, new methods of face-to-face training with all business areas and a new electronic system to deal with contracts and the management of litigation across the company.