Elisabeth Leimbacher is head counsel portfolio and pipeline at Takeda, a 242-year old leading pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan.  In her role, Elisabeth leads a team of internal lawyers advising...

Rachel’s journey began at the renowned law firm Headrick Rizik Alvarez & Fernández, where she gained valuable experience as an associate in the corporate and M&A fields. It was during...

Simon Leimbacher is a lawyer qualified in both The US and UK, with extensive experience in the areas of corporate and international law – with particular focus on complex contract...

Number of years practice: 7 Principal practice areas: Projects Bar admissions: New York, Washington, D.C. Languages spoken: English, Spanish Rachel Crouch is a senior associate in Norton Rose Fulbright’s projects...

What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Amongst many others, Nine acquiring the rights to the Australian Open...

A highly capable legal professional, head of legal, procurement and analytics and services Dr Peter Macheiner established the legal department for SYNLAB group from scratch. Talking about one of his...

What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? I have worked on the following: negotiated, mitigated and finally settled...

Rachel Curran, as general counsel for Ulster Bank, has displayed an extremely strong skill-set in her senior position at the organisation. In the words of a nominator, ‘this has been...

Since joining e-commerce company Groupon Latam in July 2016, Pablo Andrés Pacheco Escalona has played a key role on the company’s recent landmark activities. When the company was acquired by...

Team size: 30 Major law firms used: Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Homburger, Macfarlanes Rachel Wheeler was already regarded as one of Aviva’s leading in-house lawyers before...

Number of years practice: 21 Principal practice areas: Mining and project finance Languages spoken: English What is the geographical focus of your practice in Africa? Pan-African practice. Please describe the...

From being the sole in-house counsel to battling with potential bankruptcy, Christian Wang Schumacher has faced a range of challenges since he joined SAS Norge A/S in 2010. Scandinavian Airlines...

When describing Peter Macheiner, observers mostly use two adjectives: ‘determined’ and ‘committed’. He heads the legal department at synlab, a company that provides laboratory services in 25 jurisdictions in Europe...

Chief legal and corporate affairs officer Jeff Davis oversees the legal team at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, an independent organisation that pays defined benefit pensions and invests plan assets on...

Aché Laboratórios Farmacêuticos is a Brazilian pharmaceutical manufacturer that currently employs 4,600 people and holds a diversified portfolio of more than 300 brands in over 800 product presentations of prescription...

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...

‘The role of the general counsel as a business leader is vastly underrated’, opines Rachel Besley. Heading a 20-strong team, she has supported Deloitte’s Australian operations through a period of...

Javier Pacheco Mauro started his career back in 1998, working at well-known local law firms that helped him develop as a commercial lawyer and notary public. During this period he...

With over 15 years’ experience as a leading technology, media and telecommunications lawyer, Rachel Meulman has worked with Optus for 11 years and has been a key adviser to a...

Rachel Lunn is the general counsel at Sonic Healthcare in the Sonic Clinical Services (SCS) business line and is responsible for legal advice delivery and performance across the SCS portfolio...

An ASX listed media company with a range of different assets including the major Australian free-to-air television channel Nine Network, Nine Entertainment is a historic organisation in the context of...

As the sole counsel for Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) Norge, Christian Wang Schumacher covers a broad selection of legal aspects of the business, ranging from passenger complaints to purchasing aircrafts...

Internationally experienced lawyer Florian Krumbacher started his legal career as an attorney at law firms Linklaters in Munich and Thommessen in Oslo. Krumbacher started his in-house career at Compaq computers...

Founded in 1990 as a subsidiary of energy giant Gazprom, Stroytransgaz is an engineering construction company operating in the oil and gas industry that has a number of projects in...

REWE Group, a German diversified retail and tourism co-operative, has a number of significant operations in Central and Eastern Europe through its portfolio of companies. Among them is Billa, the...

Described as an ‘analytic legal counsel with over 20 years’ experience in the technology and media industries’ by nominating sources, Dr Peter Macheiner is head of the legal function of...

In his role as vice president legal affairs for Deutsche Telekom, Dr Uli Kühbacher has a range of responsibilities that are connected with monitoring and mitigating issues that have the...