Group general counsel - executive committee member | Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW)
David Zeitoun
Group general counsel - executive committee member | Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW)
Team size: 150
Major legal advisers: Darrois, Gide, Lacourte Raquin Tatar, Adden Avocats
Can you tell us a little about your significant accomplishments over the last few years, as a team or by yourself?
Our team conducted a €24bn deal to create URW Group.
Have any recent political, economic, or regulatory changes impacted your work? How are you dealing with this?
The regulations and limitations linked to the pandemic and the sanctions policies implemented by the EU, the UK and the US have impacted the group’s activity and generated new legal issues.
How has the increasing consciousness of climate change and sustainability affected your company and the team’s priorities?
Sustainable development is now an integral part of the group’s core activities and a business issue in its own right. In addition to the group’s sustainable development strategy, each employee has at least one personal objective related to climate change
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