About

Sandra Mori replaced Coca-Cola’s long-standing European general counsel Christopher Barnard in 2010. With a team of 45 lawyers operating in 12 countries she is responsible for all legal and regulatory affairs of the multinational beverage company across the European Union excluding Germany and Spain. Mori is known throughout Europe as an outstanding corporate counsel who brings a strong commercial perspective to everything she does. Last year she was named general counsel of the year by a leading Italian in-house publication. Mori has overseen the implementation of a number of high-profile sponsorship agreements in her time as general counsel, including Coca-Cola’s partnership with the London Olympic Games in 2012. This highly-complex deal saw Mori working closely with Coca-Cola’s business and marketing teams to ensure correct use of Olympic logos and trademarks throughout Europe. Before joining Coca-Cola in 2001 Mori was Microsoft Corporation’s GC for Southern Europe, handling legal matters relating to Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece. In addition to spending her in-house career with US companies, Mori has spent time as a scholar and freelance lawyer in the US. She has claimed that her distinctly “non-European” approach to managing a legal function is because of this international experience.