About

Semperit operates in the medicine and industrial sectors, and develops and distributes specialist products made of synthetics and rubber. The group employs over 10,000 staff of which over 7,000 are based in Asia. Jutta Buchholzer has been successful in her role as group compliance officer and corporate legal counsel, developing and implementing a consistent compliance programme for all global subsidiaries, including in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Her global work also includes numerous formations of international subsidiaries as well as restructurings or closures of operations in Europe and Asia. One of the more recent cases has been a complex restructuring in Germany which also required moving headquarters to a different location. A particular challenge in her role is ‘building up a level of awareness and understanding of compliance with long-term employees’. Law firms that want to win work have to ‘tackle problems using good judgement: not everything has to be checked to the tiniest detail but in certain sensitive cases this might be required’.