Colombia Teams 2017
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Made up of 14 members from four different nationalities, the Spanish legal department at Siemens is an ‘international team embedded within, and trusted by, the business’, according to general counsel...
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With a number of different business interests in the country, global industrials conglomerate Siemens employs a highly capable team of legal professionals to mitigate risk and navigate the organisation through...
| Siemens Turkey
Led by general counsel Mehmet Celal Savaş, the Turkish legal team of eight at Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering company, creates value as ‘a real business partner’. As Savaş is part...
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The Russian operation of Siemens has gone from strength to strength over the past year, on the back of successful conclusions to a number of high profile deals. After negotiations...
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Since 1996, Siemens Peru has maintained a leading position in the market thanks to several projects of great magnitude. With approximately 400 employees in the country, Siemens Peru has supplied...
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Siemens, a global organisation that develops high-tech and innovative solutions for industry, energy, cities and healthcare, has a team of nine lawyers to support operations across Denmark and Norway. Since...
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For more than 75 years, Siemens has been active in Saudi Arabia, where it holds leading positions in the industrial, energy and healthcare sectors. The Siemens Saudi Arabia legal team,...
| Siemens Mesoamérica
Siemens Mesoamérica, the Mexican arm of the global conglomerate, has a legal team of 15 lawyers, and is led by general counsel Juan Carlos Maroto, a ‘transnational lawyer with extensive...
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Siemens Canada, the Canadian arm of the global manufacturing giant, is a comprehensive operation with approximately 4,500 employees and annual revenue of C$2bn. All of Siemens’ global businesses have operations...
| Siemens Poland
Led by general counsel Wojciech Kowalewski, the legal department at Siemens Poland is extremely flexible and competent in dealing with issues in relation to regulatory changes, new products and ensuring...
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Dr Matthias Geiger serves as general counsel for the Norwegian operations of global industrials giant Siemens, managing a legal department of six lawyers. Two of the team members are qualified...
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With an overall headcount of approximately 1,500 individuals, Siemens’ legal firepower is comparable to a significant dedicated law firm. Jörg Häring, general counsel for Europe and Africa and general counsel...
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A relatively small legal department of approximately 40 employees provides legal support to multinational conglomerate Siemens’ numerous business interests in Russia. With healthcare, energy and technology being just some of...
| Siemens Mobility
The in-house legal department of Siemens Mobility in Colombia has regional coverage as well as specific to each relevant jurisdiction. The team has adapted to the division of the Mobility...
| Siemens Healthineers
The in-house legal team at Siemens Healthineers in Colombia continues to impress and provide the highest quality legal coverage to the global healthcare giant’s presence in Colombia and the Andean...
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Siemens opened its first company in Sweden in 1893, and today it has 4,200 employees in 40 locations with headquarters in Stockholm. During the fiscal year 2018, sales for Siemens...
| Siemens Chile
The legal department at the multinational conglomerate Siemens in Chile supports the company operations on a whole range of issues encountered by its various lines of business. The team’s portfolio...
| Siemens Heatlhineers
Siemens Healthineers has gone from strength to strength since its major rebranding exercise in 2016, which saw it transition to its current name from Siemens Healthcare. Bernd Dudel is general...
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Having started operations in Argentina in 1857, the German conglomerate Siemens has a strong and long-standing presence in the country. Today, among its 1,600 Argentine employees is the company’s legal...
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Siemens is an engineering company, headquartered in Germany, and is Europe’s largest engineering business. Over the past several decades, Siemens has invested immensely in Africa, striving to bring new technology,...
The past few years have been highly memorable for Siemens’ six-person legal department in Colombia, as the team executed a major initiative to harmonise and simplify all of its contract templates. The initiative has had a significant impact on Siemens’ operations in Colombia, as it resulted in remarkable improvements in speed, efficiency and customer satisfaction. ‘In the past, every business area or division in Colombia had its own contract templates’, says Virgilio Diaz Mendoza, senior counsel in the team. ‘This made us slow to respond to cross divisional opportunities and confused our customers who dealt with several different Siemens business areas. It also required considerable effort by the legal department to keep all these templates up to date’. Having undertaken a comprehensive benchmarking of terms and conditions used by competitors and having aligned its own standard terms and conditions with market practice, the team has been able to reduce the number of templates that Siemens uses in Colombia from 25 to eight. ‘We now use the same templates across all divisions in Colombia. Our maintenance effort has dropped significantly’, Diaz clarifies. In addition to these significant gains in efficiency, the team has also impressed with its transactional track record. Recently, for example, the team received acclaim for planning and managing the legal side of the demerger of Siemens’ healthcare business in Colombia. Diaz says: ‘We were able to close this transaction successfully despite the tight schedule and the difficulty of coordinating the work of different teams. This transaction was very important for the Siemens global strategy’. Completed in early 2016 the transaction had a value in excess of $25m. In addition, the team recently captured attention with its involvement in a deal to provide cutting edge Intelligent Traffic Systems technology for the new generation of Colombian highways. ‘In the last nine months, legal has supported the negotiation of four different contracts which together will result in a high double digit revenue for Siemens. These transactions were critical to guarantee the stable operation of the Siemens mobility business in Colombia for the next 30 years’, Diaz explains. Led by Dr. Georg Boettcher, general counsel of Siemens Latin America and general counsel of Siemens Colombia, the unit is actively involved in guiding the long term strategy of Siemens, developing legal solutions to new business models and introducing various innovations.
