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Led by Maria Gonzalez Ordoñez, who is legal director for the disparate jurisdictions of Portugal, the UK, Ireland, Israel and Sub-Saharan Africa, Google’s team in Spain manages a diverse workload...
The Google Spain and Portugal legal team currently has six lawyers, including five legal counsels and one legal trainee. The head of the team is María González Ordóñez as legal...
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Founded in 2005, Google Türkiye’s line of business includes soliciting advertising on a contract or fee basis for newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, or for other media platforms. As...
With just over 100 employees, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regional operations of Google represent a small part of its global activities. Yet, with aspirations to connect the...
Sarah Lennon is the regional counsel for Ireland at global internet technology company Google, whose team provide round-the-clock legal counsel on a broad range of issues across a wide geographical...
An organisation that requires little in the way of introduction, Google continues to expand its business enterprises into new areas. On top of this, the ubiquity of their search engine...
Described as ‘one of the most talented in-house legal groups in Brazil’ by a nominating source, the Google Brazil legal team continues the company’s reputation of hiring the best and...
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The legal team of Google Italy is comprised of a number of talented in-house lawyers, who provide legal advice on a wide range of matters for Google. The team is...
Google’s legal department for Switzerland and Austria is formed by a group of experienced lawyers who are equipped with strong expertise in data protection, copyright and competition matters and are...
Neil Culkin explains that Google’s EMEA Headquarters in Dublin is home to some of the company’s core functions and accordingly the in-house legal team is comprised of a number of specialist counsel who have a diverse set of responsibilities with Culkin himself taking charge of all real estate and construction matters for commercial office developments in EMEA and India. Tom O’Malley has had a major impact on the real estate legal team’s work. O’Malley has an equivalent role advising Google’s Global Infrastructure team ‘on complex acquisitions of land and the subsequent construction and operation of data centre facilities’. Sarah Lennon, regional counsel for Ireland and Northern Ireland, advises the business on a ‘broad spectrum of Irish activities including key legal risks and strategies, regulatory challenges and complex contentious matters’. Privacy Counsel, Michal Bienias who advises his teams on a ‘range of product design and privacy compliance issues’, and Emily Ennis, commercial counsel for Google company Nest, are other key members of this specialist legal team who are brought together by a shared vision inspired by the wider culture of the company. ‘What unites us is the culture of Google’, Culkin says, ‘as innovation is at the heart of what we do and a key contributor to our continued growth’. This boundary-pushing means Google’s lawyers are often dealing with new areas that require them to go above and beyond what other in-house counsel do. ‘Many of the issues we face are unprecedented, unique, never before heard-of problems’, says Culkin. ‘To deal with them, we strive to think big, think creatively and come up with proactive and creative but above all practical legal guidance’. Culkin emphasises this by highlighting a mixture of project work the team has been part of over the past two years: ‘Over the past 18 months Google Legal has been working hard to ensure compliance with GDPR across all of the services that we provide in Europe. We also obtained a significant decision in the High Court earlier this year on Ireland’s first “right to be forgotten” case. Nest have doubled their product range and grown their reach from 5 to 16 countries in EMEA. We were very happy to announce the acquisition of the largest urban mixed-use development in Dublin – Boland’s Quay – which continues our shaping of the docklands area of Dublin. We are also working on our first ground up office construction in EMEA, a new 1 million square foot headquarters in London. We also launched two significant family focused products in Ireland this year called Family Link and YouTube Kids, these apps allow families to set digital ground rules aimed at helping their children make smart decisions as they begin using their devices online’.
