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Head of legal advice | Banco de Machala
Group general counsel | Crystal Ventures
| Nissan Philippines
| Monde Nissin
Head of legal | GSK
General counsel | Bitpanda
General counsel | FNZ Group
General counsel and group company secretary | Mercedes-Benz South Africa
Assistant general counsel | NextEra Energy Resources
General counsel and chief compliance officer | PayJoy
Legal counsel | Schrödinger
Head of legal and compliance | Airbus
Spotlight on… Lubinisha Saha is a lawyer and a compliance professional. Currently (as of June 2023) she is the head of legal and compliance for Airbus, South Asia and international...
Director legal, India and South Asia | Uber
Head of legal and general partner | Roca X Management
Sonia Fedorovici is a general partner and the head of legal at Roca X — the largest privately funded Venture Capital Fund in Romania. Under her guidance the fund’s management...
Legal director member of the board of directors | RetuRO
Legal department manager | TotalEnergies
Managing legal and compliance counsel | FUJIFILM Middle East & Africa
Legal director, retail division | HELLENiQ ENERGY
Focus on: Ioannis Voskos In June 2014, Ioannis Voskos joined HELLENiQ ENERGY Group of Companies, a distinguished business that holds a leading position in the Greek energy sector as well...
Chief legal officer | EYDAP
Head of legal, Greece | Avramar Seafood Group
head of legal for italy | Shell
General counsel, legal | Sun Life Malaysia
| The Danish Construction Federation (DI Byggeri)
| Liechtensteinische Landesbank
| Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs
Legal manager on institutional compliance | Multiplan Empreendimentos Imobiliários
Manager corporate legal | Vodafone
Group general counsel | United Group
Senior corporate counsel and deputy manager of commercial and legal department of China Harbour Engineering Company Americas Division, Assistant general counsel of China Harbour Engineering Head Office in Beijing & commercial and legal Department director for the Fourth Bridge Over the Panama Canal Project in Panama. | China Harbour Engineering Company
Company secretary and senior corporate lawyer | Santos
Privacy and product counsel | Atlassian
Head of legal and compliance for India and South Asia | Airbus
Executive vice president and general counsel | Viaccess Orca
Head of legal operations and strategy for L&C – global | Nokia
Legal director, retail division | Hellenic Petroleum
Legal advisor to the Board of Directors, director of legal services | EYDAP
Head of legal, Greece | Avramar Seafood Group
General counsel and chief compliance officer | PayJoy
Vice president legal, integrity leader and women | NielsenIQ
Legal and government affairs director for South Latin America | Kimberly-Clark
Principal counsel, corporate operations and rest of Latin America | The Walt Disney Company
Head of legal | Bitpanda
Vice president and assistant general counsel | Aramark
Company Secretary and Senior Corporate Lawyer | Santos
Head of legal for Italy | Shell Italia E&P
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary | HollyFrontier
Executive vice president, chief legal officer and secretary | Northwestern Mutual
Senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary | IDEX Corporation
Partner | Linklaters LLP
Number of years practice: 16 Principal practice areas: Project Finance Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English One of Linklater’s star young partners, Vijaya R. Palaniswamy was made counsel in...
Partner | Shearman & Sterling
Number of years practice: 29 Principal practice areas: Project Development & Finance; Banking & Finance Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English What differentiates your Mexico-facing practice from those of...
Head of legal and ethics and compliance Asia Pacific | UCB
What are the most significant cases and/or transactions that your legal team has been involved with in the last two years? In 2019 the legal team supported Banistmo’s issuance of...
Director of legal affairs | Virgin Connect
What do you feel are the most effective techniques for getting the most out of external counsel, in terms of how to instruct them? The budgets of the legal department...
General counsel and corporate secretary | Sydney Water Corporation
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Legal advice and contractual and negotiation support for the rollout of...
Head of legal | G2A.COM
Stanisław Sopel has been at G2A for nearly three years, and as head of legal is a member of G2A’s board responsible for the company’s growth. He also sits on...
Director, legal department | Centralny Ośrodek Informatyki
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Navigating complex negotiations between several parties with opposing interests regarding intellectual...
Vice president and general counsel | MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group
Manuel Sternisa has been a fixture of the MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group legal team since 2001 and took his first leadership role in 2007. The past year has been a momentous...
Vice president and associate general counsel – DACH, France and Northern Europe | Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Based in Stuttgart, Dennis Grabherr currently serves as vice president and associate general counsel at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, covering DACH, France and Northern Europe with support from his international...
Head of legal affairs | ARI
Emily Ennis is the head of legal affairs for ARI, which is an international duty free retailer operating in 16 locations worldwide and is owned by daa. She manages the...
Partner | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Number of years practice: 34 Principal practice areas: Capital markets, finance Bar admissions: District of Columbia, New York Languages spoken: English In Mexico, nearly one third of the population is...
Partner | Linklaters
Number of years practice: 15 Principal practice areas: Projects Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English, French and Tamil One of Linklater’s star young partners, Vijaya Palaniswamy was promoted to...
Partner | Shearman & Sterling
Number of years practice: 29 Principal practice areas: Project development finance Bar admissions: New York, District of Columbia Languages spoken: English Guyana-born Denise Grant counts corporate, acquisition, leveraged and project...
Head of legal and assistant general manager, Asia Pacific (excluding China) | Raiffeisen Bank International
Monisha Kamdar joined Raiffeisen Bank as head of legal-Asia Pacific in 2010. At the time, Kamdar was the bank’s first lawyer in Asia and was responsible as sole regional general...
Chief legal officer | iTech Capital
With several years of experience in both a leading international law firm and in-house, Bronislava currently leads legal activities of iTech Capital, a private equity fund that invests in the...
Head of Legal | VEB-Leasing OJSC
VEB Leasing’s national legal department, its direction and performance criteria were created in 2008 under Denis Shkolnikov’s management. Now heading a 30-strong team, Denis is proud of having created the...
Head of Legal (Russia) | RBS
Svetlana’s vast organisational experience and legal expertise allows her to successfully supervise legal processes at RBS Russia, whilst also covering a company secretarial position within the organisation. Her time at...
Legal Director | Agroinvest (Subsidiary of Black Earth Farming)
An ambitious and experienced lawyer, Stanislav Bobkov currently runs the legal department of leading European agriculture-industrial group Agroinvest. Having headed legal functions and worked for leading law firms since 1999,...
| Danish Agriculture & Food Council
Established as recently as 2015, the legal department at the Danish Agriculture & Food Council has already proven their worth to the business via their ability to convert complex legal...
| Ministry of Social Development of Jordan
Playing a critical role in providing social security services and improving the lives of its citizens, the Ministry of Social Development has been at the forefront of efforts to promote...
| Nissan Mexicana
Japanese automobile manufacturer Nissan, first entered Mexico in 1959 and has since established itself as one of the largest carmakers in the country. Led by general counsel Armando Curiel since...
Vice president legal and ombudsman, Latin America | Nielsen
Chief legal counsel for Latin America at global market analysis behemoth, The Nielsen Company, Denise Guillén’s responsibilities cover 18 countries. Since her arrival at the company three years ago, she...
head of legal | Shell Italia E&P
Shell’s Italian division plays an important part in the company’s European operations. Shell has recently sold its downstream assets in Italy, including retail outlets, distribution and logistics in order to...
Head of Legal, Data Privacy and Compliance Officer, Ireland | Microsoft
A US-qualified lawyer, Denise Farnsworth has exceptional industry experience, following a decade and a half at technology giant, Microsoft, and six years in Apple’s legal department. Arriving at Microsoft in...
Chief Legal Officer | SMBC Aviation Capital
As an executive director of Dublin-based aircraft leasing giant SMBC Aviation Capital, Catharine Ennis supported one of the largest deals in Irish corporate history. This occurred in 2012 when Japan’s...
Head of legal project and acquisition finance | ING Bank
Dennis Heidschmidt has developed all processes, standards and recruitment in the areas of acquisition and project finance for Dutch ING Bank. Heidschmidt has in particular improved the way how large...
| Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT)
Formed in 1920, the administrative body for tennis in France, the Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT), employs a legal team consisting of five staff dedicated to protecting the non-profit organisation...
executive vice president, general counsel | Viaccess-Orca
Beginning her career in-house with Christian Dior, Christine Maury-Panis’ first in-house legal role consisted of supporting the high fashion brand on trademarks and compliance with competition law, at a time...
| Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation (OTE Group)
OTE Group is the largest telecommunications provider in the Greek market, offering a full range of telecommunications services. These include fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband services, to pay television and...
| Unisys colombia
The US-headquartered technology company Unisys has developed a substantial presence in Colombia, offering a range of services, software and technology solutions to a host of industries. The company’s products include...
| Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia)
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia) employs some of the brightest lawyers in the country’s public sector; many of them have shown a capacity to...
Vice President Business and Legal Affairs | Fox Networks Group Latin America
An attorney admitted to practice in Colombia, New York and England with an abundance of experience in transactions, corporate law, contracts and compliance, Adriana Sinisterra Plana currently oversees Fox Networks’...
Head of legal, Asia Pacific (excluding China) | Tesla Motors, Hong Kong
In a number of ways, Denise Ho’s background made her an ideal candidate to set up the legal function for Tesla’s operations in Hong Kong. Firstly, although she always coveted...
General counsel (North and Central America area and Colombia) | Banco Agrícola
Since 2014 Dionisio Ismael Machuca Massis has worked for two of Bancolombia Group’s subsidiaries in El Salvador in the dual role of vice president (legal) and secretary for Banco Agricola...
| Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
Following a merger of various government departments in 2012, New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) was established as the New Zealand government’s lead business-facing agency tasked with...
Senior corporate lawyer and assistant company secretary | Santos Limited
Since April 2012, Amanda Devonish has served as senior corporate lawyer and assistant company secretary of Santos, having previously worked in-house and in private practice in Abu Dhabi with Abu...
| Trans Tunisian Pipeline Company
Since the initial agreement between Italian energy giant ENI and the Tunisian government in 1977 and the opening of the joint pipeline in 1983, the Trans Tunisian Pipeline Company has...
Managing director – head of legal Brazil | Goldman Sachs
Ricardo Genis Mourão joined Goldman Sachs in 2011 and was named managing director in 2015. Prior to joining the firm, Mourão was an external counsel in banking and securities in...
General counsel, India Geo market (India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka) | Baker Hughes – a GE company
Lubinisha Saha is the general counsel for Baker Hughes, a full stream oil and gas company in India and part of the US conglomerate GE. She has more than 14...
| Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services
With one of the most respected and well-funded national healthcare systems in the world, healthcare in Norway is seen as an exemplary way to provide national health coverage to its...
Vice president legal and secretary | Banco Agrícola – Grupo Bancolombia
Dionisio Ismael Machuca Massis has served as the vice president legal and secretary for Banco Agrícola for four years where he has worked with multi-disciplinary teams to achieve a better...
| Norwegian Ministry of Finance
The Norwegian Ministry of Finance is the Norwegian government department responsible for implementation and analysis of government policy on taxation, regulation, financial markets, financial institutions, government and private pension schemes...
| Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance
The legal team that provides legal support to the business of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance in Russia has had an extremely successful year. Both general counsel Michaell Smith and deputy general counsel...
General counsel and corporate secretary | Sydney Water Corporation
Denisha Anbu started her legal career at international law firm King & Wood Mallesons practicing there for 14 years predominately in the telecommunications, media and technology sector and worked in...
| NISI (HK)
NISI (HK) is a Hong Kong based surgical and diagnostic innovation company developing industry leading technology to revolutionise the medical device market and improve surgical safety and precision. The company...
| Unisys
Continuing to impress, the Unisys in-house legal team demonstrates its quality and deserves recognition again the GC Powerlist after its inclusion in 2017. The team is known for its legal...
| Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo
The legal team of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism has impressed numerous peers in the Colombian legal market. The team achieved success with a landmark agreement signed between...
| Distribuidora Nissan – Grupo Vardí
The highly talented in-house legal team of Distribuidora Nissan, is comprised of four lawyers and is led by Catalina Robledo Ramirez who is the legal manager – general counsel. The...
| Banistmo
Led by María Cristina Vilá de van Hoorde – who proudly describes the bank as ‘the second-largest in Panama’ – the 22-member Banistmo legal team is responsible not only for...
Vice president business and legal affairs | Fox Networks Group Latin America
Adriana Sinisterra Plana leads the legal team at Fox Networks Group Latin America (Fox) with extensive industry experience and commercial acumen that makes her a leader in the industry who...
| Renault Nissan India
Experiencing a recent corporate shake-up, the Indian operations of global car manufacturing giants Renault and Nissan – which were consolidated in a joint venture created in 2005 – is significantly...
Legal counsel, head of legal and compliance | LINK4
Stanisława Świst-Zawada leads a team of 12 individuals at insurance company LINK4, a company she returned to in October 2016 after a previous nine-year tenure there from 2002 to the...
Head of HR and legal department | ERGO Group
ERGO’s Denis Golubovich is a multidimensional lawyer capable of seamlessly navigating cross-functional teams and implementing new process innovations to achieve speed and efficiency when delivering legal advice. Having headed the...
Chief legal officer | SMBC Aviation Capital
Owned by a group of major Japanese financial organisations (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Company Limited and Sumitomo Corporation) the scale of SMBC Aviation Capital’s...
Head of legal affairs | ARI
Another segment of Ireland’s booming air travel support industry, ARI now has a truly international presence, around 3,000 employees and over $1bn in revenue. Emily Ennis, its head of legal...
Chief legal counsel head of compliance | Hannover Re
Since October 2003, Stefan Heinisch has provided outstanding legal support to Hannover Re, the third largest reinsurance group in the world and has a network of subsidiaries, branches and representative...
Head of wholesale banking legal | ING Commercial
Vice president, legal and leader of integration (Latin America) | Nielsen
Denise Guillén Lara has practiced at a varied set of companies and firms over the course of a 24-year legal career, prior to joining Nielsen, Guillén directed and collaborated in...
Secretary of the board of directors, legal counsel | Fourlis Group
Ioannis Zakopoulos first joined Fourlis Group in 1998 in the capacity of the legal advisor. As part of one of the leading group of companies in Greece and the Balkans...
Commercial support legal director | Hellenic Petroleum
During his first 20 years of practicing as a lawyer, Ioannis Voskos worked in in-house roles for a variety of multinational companies. Since June 2014 he has been serving Hellenic...
Vice chairman of the board of the directors and legal adviser | Jumbo
Multinational retail company Jumbo has been at the forefront of the Greek child and baby care retail landscape for over 30 years. It has over 50 stores in Greece and...
Executive vice president, general counsel and security | Viaccess-Orca (Orange Group)
Executive vice president and general counsel for Viaccess-Orca – a world leader in content protection, OTT technologies and data analytics, with an annual turnover of more than €78m – Christine...
Partner | Linklaters
Number of years practice: 14 Law school attended: University of Georgia, Tufts University, Harvard Law School Languages spoken: English, French and Tamil Principal practice areas: Projects Admissions: New York One...
Partner | Shearman & Sterling
Number of years practice: 28 Law school attended: Georgetown University Law Center Languages spoken: English Principal practice areas: Project Development Finance Admissions: District of Columbia, New York Denise Grant has...
As one of the largest energy companies in the region and one of the largest employees and exporters in the Serbian economy, Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) commands a revenue figure of almost €2bn through its variety of activities including the exploration and production of oil and gas, retail network development, electric energy production and related trade. Nikola Radovanovic is the chief legal officer at NIS Gazprom Neft (Petroleum Industry of Serbia) and presides over a number of expert lawyers overseeing the legal and regulatory aspects of the company’s operations who have been highlighted for serving NIS in its business objectives, which are often multijurisdictional in nature thanks to its presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Croatia and Angola. After the deadline of this year’s research passed, Radovanovic undertook a new position within the NIS business as the head of EU affairs, further embedding the legal affairs department into the company’s future strategic direction.