Brazil Teams 2017
| ABB
ABB
Senior vice president and general counsel | Misumi USA
Chief in-house lawyer | MAE
Senior vice president and general counsel | Misumi USA
Legal compliance director | Banque Libano-Française
| Abbott Laboratories
General counsel | MAE
Gerente legal | Kimberly-Clark
Chief legal and corporate affairs officer | JDE Peet's
| Abbvie
| Abbey Capital
Legal compliance director | Banque Libano-Française
General counsel and corporate secretary | Canadian Malartic GP (CMGP)
Editor’s note: This interview was conducted prior to March 2020. Éric now works at Agnico Eagle Mines Limited. What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been...
General counsel | EKOSMART Companies
Senior vice president corporate and legal | Woodside
| Abbott
| ABB
Head of legal compliance - director | Banque Libano-Française
Joining Banque Libano-Française in 2007, Maya Hardini Abboud brings an unparalleled level of knowledge in banking and financial law to her role as head of legal compliance. In her current...
Leading research-based pharmaceutical company, AbbVie has a team of senior legal counsel located in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela and Guatemala. The legal department is responsible for supporting and giving...
| ABB Türkiye
The Turkish operation of Zurich-based ABB, a global leader in power and automation technologies, has played a big part in the company’s international activities in recent years and has seen...
Supporting the leading global technology company in power and automation, ABB’s legal team has been among the most respected in Europe for many years. Led by general counsel Diane de...
| ABBYY
ABBYY is a global software company that develops documents capture and language-based techniques that is headquartered in Moscow and has 14 offices scattered around the world (including Europe, the USA,...
| ABB
The activities of Swedish-Swiss multinational electrical equipment company ABB in the Russian market are overseen by a group of highly flexible and ambitious lawyers, led by seasoned Russian professional Dmitry...
| Abbott Laboratories
The Abbott Laboratories legal team in Peru is thoroughly involved in the organisation’s aims to deliver innovative solutions in the domain of advancing global health. It has been tasked with...
| ABB
ABB has five different business units which fully involve the legal department in its operations and management, preventing and minimising risk throughout. The ABB Peru legal team makes it a...
| ABB Industries
As one of the leading power and automation engineering companies, ABB provides solutions for secure, energy-efficient transmission and distribution of electricity. Among operations in roughly 100 countries worldwide, ABB manufactures...
| Abbott
Abbott, a global medical and nutritional products manufacturer, has been operating in Mexico since 1934. It manufactures Ensure, Glucerna, Similac, Pedialyte and PediaSure, and its bioresorbable vascular framework. The strong...
| Abbott
Abbott expanded its operation in Latin America in 2014 with significant acquisitions of Chile’s CFR Pharmaceuticals and two Colombian companies, Synthesis and Lafrancol, with the latter owning brands such as...
Corporate counsel | Reed Exhibitions Alcantara Machado
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...
| ABB
Operating mainly in robotics, power, heavy electrical equipment and automation technology areas, Swedish-Swiss multinational ABB is a truly global present in more than 100 countries with approximately 147,000 employees located...
| Abbott Laboratories
The last couple of years have been transformative for Abbott Laboratories’ 13-person Russian legal unit, as the department had to alter the ways in which it supports internal clients, moving...
| ABB
One of the main areas of focus over the last two years for ABB’s five-person Russian legal department has been strengthening expertise in areas relevant to business, legal competence (knowledge,...
| Abbott
Expertly covering the Andean region, Abbott’s in-house legal team based in Colombia continues to impress after its leader’s previous inclusion in the GC Powerlist: Colombia 2018. With the largest market...
| ABB Colombia and Ecuador
ABB is a world leader in electrical infrastructure engineering production with a major presence in Latin America. Its legal team in Colombia and Ecuador has been involved in continuous changes...
| ABB China
ABB is an industry leading technology company producing innovative power grids, electrification products, industrial automation, and robotics in the utilities, industrial, transport and infrastructure sectors all over the world. The...
Over the last few years the legal team at ABB has grown more closely aligned with the business in terms of becoming simpler, more flexible, accessible and streamlined. Examples of...
The ABB legal team is led by general counsel and company secretary, Diane de Saint Victor who has been at the company for over 12 years and holds full responsibility...
General counsel | Questback
Founded in 2000, Questback is an online survey and feedback software company that helps its global clientele base achieve competitive advantages by improving employee engagement and consumer experiences. In the...
| ABB Chile
ABB Chile, the Chilean branch of ABB Group, is a specialist technology and engineering company specialising in robotics and motion, electrification products, industrial automation, and power grids across 130 countries...
| AbbVie
The Argentine legal department of pharmaceutical research and development company AbbVie has received a number of plaudits for its diligence and support on a myriad of issues in the healthcare...
| Abott
Pharmaceutical multinational Abott’s Argentine legal function is tasked with providing overall legal support and maintaining the company’s regulatory and legislative strategy across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Besides demonstrating unrivalled expertise...
‘We are a collaborative and client focused team that is always looking to efficiently serve the company by being fast and creative, but above all, trying to keep the company safe. The role of the department is to be business-focused, using law as tool to enable sales and, at the very same time, to be a guardian of the company’s assets – reputation being one of the most valuable ones’, says Luís Fernando Radulov Queiroz, vice president, head counsel and integrity officer, South America for ABB. Specialist industrials company ABB has 10 lawyers and six non-lawyers in its Brazilian legal team, and amongst other impressive results managed to be ‘central’ in various important business affairs, leading negotiations and pushing for creative solutions to solve issues. Evincing the trust the company places in the legal team, in 2016, an ABB Brazil legal manager spent a month in China, negotiating an important contract to the local operation, successfully improving the terms of the contract and facilitating the execution of the project. For ABB in Brazil, a crucial business undertaking is the restructuring of some of its group companies, which Radulov says the legal team is ‘leading the negotiations on, including payment terms coming from multiple jurisdictions and important litigation involving more than $200m USD’. He also states that the team has ‘successfully led, in the last three years, the certification of ABB Brazil as one of the few companies in the country to considered by the Federal Government and Ethos Institute a “Pro-Ethics” company’. Commercially-minded to its core, the team is keen to share knowledge around the business, it introduced an “Integrity Week” for Brazil and South America where activities were organised targeting as many employees as possible to improve the awareness of the organisation towards integrity and ethical behaviour. Noted for their contributions within the team are contracts’ manager Juliana Zanon – named ‘a great talent’ and chief integrity officer Brazil and litigation manager Milena Sbrana, who has been responsible for ‘keeping integrity at the top of the company’s agenda’.
