Lirik began her legal career at Meitar law firm as a member of the IP and commercial transaction group. Lirik is the general counsel of the rapidly growing Electra Consumer...

Team size: 50 Major legal advisers: Addleshaw Goddard, Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang , DLA Piper, Eversheds Sutherland, Gateley, Pinsent Masons, Shepherd and Wedderburn Clydesdale...

Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? The legal team is separated into three major areas. Each area...

Formerly a successful private practice lawyer, including periods as an associate for Simmons & Simmons and Jones Day, David Weir moved to his first in-house role with Mövenpick Hotels &...

‘Deirdre Pepper is a highly experienced financial regulatory lawyer who has taken charge of the compliance landscape for Deutsche Bank’s Irish operations. She has led the charge on internal regulatory...

Deirdre Runnette is a highly accomplished and skilled general counsel who has made a name for herself in the technology industry. She has 20 years of experience in private practice...

Portugal-based conglomerate Grupo Visabeira is active in a number of sectors, from telecommunications to construction and from tourism to real estate. It has established a presence in a number of...

Handling ‘complex and sophisticated work’, the legal team of historic Portuguese cork products company Corticeira Amorim is well-known in the market for its diligence; the team’s work has been called...

Philip Morris International’s affiliate in Portugal, Tabaqueira is the country’s largest tobacco company, employing around 700 people that oversee famous brands such as Marlboro, L&M, Chesterfield, SG, and Português. Amongst...

Made up of 13 lawyers and legal trainees, Grupo Visabeira’s in-house legal team ensures in-depth support and advice on diverse and complex legal subjects, taking on an essential role within...

‘Corticeira Amorim is the largest cork products company in the world and the most international Portuguese company. It is the clear leader in the sector and contributes like no other...

Jumeirah owns and operates a string of resorts and high-end hotels from its headquarters in Dubai. Included among these are some of the most internationally recognizable luxury hotels, including the...

Pedro Pesqueira is an established Mexican in-house lawyer, having served as general counsel at Sun Microsystems of Canada for six years before joining global financial services company ING in 2005...

With LLM’s in corporate law (magnum cum laude) and banking & finance law, the latter from the LSE, plus an MBA from the Fundacão Dom Cabral, Rogério Santos’ academic credentials...

With experience in the finance and automotive sectors as well as in IT, Sao Paulo-based Márcio Silveira has been at Oracle for over 15 years and is currently head of...

Formerly in-house in the energy sector and with in-house experience at The Legal 500 recommended Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga, Silvia Maria Ribeiro Lopes is general counsel...

Eduardo Gedeon has been with leading Brazilian construction group, Odebrecht, for 25 years, during which time he has worked with a number of the group’s 14 different business units, such...

Ana Carolina de Salles Freire spent over 15 years at leading law firm TozziniFreire, latterly as a partner, before moving in house at AES Brasil, initially as legal director, and...

With private practice experience at Sáenz Valiente, Padilla & Asociados (today Sáenz Valiente & Asociados) and Pozo Gowland Abogados, and also as a foreign associate with Hunton & Williams in...

‘Accessible, creative and easy to work with’ Alexandra Bandeira is an up-and-coming figure who has been assistant general counsel at Brazil’s Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) since 2008. Her role has...

Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) is the Irish national public service broadcaster and provides Ireland’s national television and radio services. The company faces numerous legal challenges stemming from their various entities,...

During her seven years as Citibank’s European legal head, Deirdre Pepper led some of the most sophisticated transactions in the region. Joining the company in the wake of the global...

Deirdre Nagle has been central to some of EirGrid’s most significant regional projects of recent years, through her management of the wayleave process. During her five years with the national...

With broad private practice experience gained in Portugal and Mozambique, followed by eight years in-house in the multinational construction company Andrade Gutierrez, Pedro Vidigal Monteiro has a well-rounded background in...

Heading all legal activities of Secil, Portugal’s leading cement producer, Filipe Pereira Coelho assumed his role in 2005 and since then has revolutionised the legal department. ‘My first step was...

As group general counsel, Carlos Martins Ferreira played a pivotal role in Jerónimo Martins’ global corporate structure reorganisation that took place in 2011. During the same year, as a member...

A seasoned in-house lawyer, Patrícia Marques Ferreira stands apart from her peers in her capacity to get results, with incredible speed and quality. She admits that her background in private...

‘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...

Carlos Figueiredo has worked at Unilever Jerónimo Martins since the onset of his career. He joined the company in 1998 as a management trainee and he has held various positions...

Rui de Oliveira Neves is general counsel, head of compliance and company secretary at Galp Energia, a Portuguese energy company with activities in oil and gas exploration, production, transport, and...

Miguel Videira Pimentão began his legal career as an associate attorney at magic circle law firm Clifford Chance. Based in their Paris office with a working knowledge of five languages,...

As the first telecommunications company to offer direct-to-home satellite service in Latin America, DirecTV currently holds a leading position in the Chilean home entertainment market. Joining the company in 2014,...

Created in 1953 by governmental decree, Banco del Estado de Chile (also known as BancoEstado) is Chile’s only state-owned bank and since the 1970s has been the country’s largest bank....

Brazil’s success in football, the world’s most popular sport, is unparalleled. FIFA world champions on an unprecedented five occasions, Brazil’s men’s national football team is a global sporting brand that...

Leonardo Viveiros is characterised by his peers as a ‘renowned business lawyer with a broad practice experience’. Viverios who leads a team of 10 has spearheaded strategic decision-making at Leste...

Márcio Silveira is in charge of legal and compliance matters at Oracle, an international computer technology company. Silveira leads a highly skilled and efficient legal department that has assisted Oracle...

Oil industry veteran Guido Rogerio Macedo Silveira Filho has represented some of the largest companies in the sector since 1994. He has been with Ipiranga – a subsidiary of Ultrapar...

Commended by one source for his ‘abilities and wisdom’, Johan Albino Ribeiro has been described as a ‘skilled and seasoned lawyer who excels as a negotiator, always finding sound solutions...

Luis Fernando Radulov Queiroz describes the role of a general counsel as a highly challenging yet rewarding duty. He explains that it is imperative a general counsel is able to...

Based in São Paulo, but with a continent-wide remit, Mauricio Joffily Pinheiro is Shire’s head counsel for the Latin America region, a position he has held since February 2015. Arriving...

Breno Rodrigo Pacheco de Oliveira has spent over 16 years with telecommunications giant Vivo – which is Spanish multinational Telefônica’s presence in Brazil. Leading Vivo’s legal team, a function comprising...

Brazilian mining company Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração (CBMM) are specialists in the mining and processing of niobium, which is used to create a steel-strengthening alloy. CBMM is the...

Katia Valverde Junqueira is director of legal affairs in Brazil for Gas Natural Fenosa, a Spanish multinational specialising in distribution, supply and transportation of natural gas. The Brazilian part of...

Luciana Freire is legal manager at Brazilian financial institution Banco BMG, who benefit from what one nominator calls Freire’s ‘extremely professional, business-oriented and responsive’ approach. With a remit that includes...

Luciana Ferreira has been described by sources as a ‘dedicated and knowledgeable lawyer with an eye for business’. Ferreira currently leads a team of 10 at Rio Energy, an investment...

Executive legal director and compliance officer Wilson Carlos Pereira Ivo describes working in a challenging environment and in multidisciplinary areas of the law as ‘very exciting’. Ivo currently leads the...

Executive General Counsel Susana Silveira oversees the legal department for Camargo Corrêa, one of Brazil’s largest private conglomerates that has operations domestically and internationally for products spanning real estate, construction,...

Loma Negra is a leading company in the production and commercialisation of cement and is one of the most widely recognised companies in Argentina with over 90 years of existence....

Fernando Freire has 20 years of legal experience, which included private practice roles with Sáenz Valiente, Padilla & Asociados, Hunton and Williams and Pozo Gowland between 1996 and late 2007,...

Schlumberger is one of the world’s leading providers of reservoir characterisation, drilling, production and processing technology for the oil and gas industry, and is present in more than 85 countries....

Senior legal counsel at Aperam South America since May 2011, Marcos Bruno Oliveira joined with nearly 20 years of experience, both in-house and in private practice, in the steel and...

With almost 20 years of professional legal experience covering a wide range of disciplines including corporate, real estate, civil, administrative, labour, environmental, contractual, commercial and regulatory law, Fábio Medeiros leads...

Luis Fernando Radulov Queiroz has been general counsel and integrity officer for ABB in South and Central America since 2014. Before joining ABB, he sat on the board of directors...

Nominated by numerous sources, Mauricio Joffily Pinheiro is recognised again for his continued leadership of the legal department at Shire, a global pharmaceutical colossus, in Latin America. Based in Brazil,...

After three years in the position of legal director of Pfizer Brazil, Shirley Meschke Mendes Franklin de Oliveira was designated to perform additional roles of cluster legal lead position for...

Beginning as a tax attorney in a leading law firm in the south of Brazil, Fabio Ferreira Cunha transitioned to a corporate counsel in the airspace industry as an international...

Since January 2011, Patricia Cristina Medeiros has been senior legal manager of Syngenta Proteção de Cultivos, a world leading agribusiness company in Brazil, with revenue of nearly US$3bn. She covers...

Alexandre Barenco Ribeiro currently serves as executive legal manager at Petros having had an extensive career in public and private institutions as a legal counsel and attorney. Prior to joining...

Luciana Freire is the executive superintendent of the legal department at Banco BMG, one of Brazil’s largest commercial banks. She has been in this role since 2013 having nearly 30...

Antonio Ferreira Martins is a stalwart in the oil and gas in-house legal world and is well respected for his leadership and expertise over his 30 plus years in the...

Guido Rogerio Macedo Silveira Filho has served as general manager legal at Ipiranga Produtos de Petróleo since 2002, having previously worked as a lawyer in the company from 1990 to...

With nearly 20 years of experience at top level Brazilian law firms, Vinícius Oliveira da Silva has served as legal director of Eletropaulo since November 2017. Prior to that he...

Corporate counsel since 2016, Elias Ferreira Jabbour has been nominated for his expert guidance of legal affairs at Reed Exhibitions Alcantara Marchado, a world-leading exhibitions and events company. With over...

Keir Ashton is chief legal officer for Louis Dreyfus Commodities (LDC) covering the regions of Europe, Middle East and Africa and co-manages the legal function globally. Ashton is based in...

The Irish telecommunications company and former state-owned monopoly Eir is currently in a process of transformation following a recent takeover by French telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel. Besides being heavily relied...

Tech Data acquired Avnet’s Technology Solutions business for $2.6 billion in early 2017, announcing shortly afterwards that it would continue with the existing staff. As such, Bettina Freire, associate general...

Cuba-born Marta Carreira-Slabe took an unusual route to law. She began her career as a broadcast journalist and news anchor in Illinois before retraining as a lawyer and becoming clerk...

Carolina Neira has been at Abbott, the US based pharmaceutical giant, since 2013 and is currently senior counsel for the Andes region for international legal operations. She has previously been...

Deirdre Fagan is one of the most experienced and well-respected general counsel in the insurance sector in Ireland, having been employed by global insurance giant AXA’s Irish subsidiary AXA Insurance...

Canadian bank Scotiabank offers a range of services in Peru, including retail banking services including savings accounts, debit cards and loans as well as business banking products such as purchase...

Since April 2015 Mario Barreiro Castellanos has been employed as legal director for Latin America at the largest wind turbine company in the world, Vestas. Now ultimately responsible for corporate,...

Daimler México’s general counsel and secretary Marcela Barreiro Castellanos boasts a varied in-house and private practice legal experience gained across a number of sectors, and takes on a wide set...

OTE Group is the largest telecommunications provider in the Greek market that operates through COSMOTE, its unified brand for all Group products and wholly owned subsidiary. As chief legal and...

US multinational pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) has been present in Portugal for 45 years and today is the country’s market leader. Maria Cristina Ribeiro has worked in...

After a career working in a variety of private practice and in-house roles, Rita Rendeiro has a track record of serving as a legal adviser within many multinational banks and...

Teresa Pereira currently serves as head of legal of EDP – Energias de Portugal, which has historically been the major player in the Portuguese markets of electricity distribution, supply and...

Based in Portugal but also present in Poland and Colombia, Jerónimo Martins operates in the food distribution and specialised retail sectors and is among the largest retailers in the world....

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...

Part of Portugal’s national postal service CTT, Banco CTT evolved out the parent company’s financial services business. The bank’s recently appointed head of legal Catarina Gonçalves Oliveira has already impressed...

Oscar Garcia Maceiras has been operating in the upper echelons of the legal profession for many years. State lawyer for A Coruña between 2001 and 2006, he has been a...

João Ferreira Rebelo has spent over 12 years as the head of legal and compliance for Luz Saúde, one of Portugal’s largest healthcare companies that runs a total of 20...

Comprising over 100 businesses with annual revenues in excess of €15bn, the Galp Group is one of Portugal’s largest corporations. Head of legal operations at the prominent energy multinational is...

Earning over €50bn in annual revenues and with over 300,000 employees, French company Auchan Retail ranks among the largest food retailers in the world. Legal and tax director Carlos Pedreira...

A mainstay of Total’s downstream Africa business, Total Maroc’s business model was revolutionised in 2014, when Zahid Group’s 30% share acquisition meant Total was no longer the sole shareholder. Legal...