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Isabella Toth joined HPE as country counsel Italy in June 2015 and led the company’s legal team through a complex transformation undergone by the HPE group over the past three years. This project started with the separation of the Hewlett Packard group into two separate entities: Hewlett Packard Enterprise which is a business-focused hardware and solutions part and HP Inc which focuses on consumer PCs and printers. This was then followed by two subsequent transactions, the spin-off and merger of HPE Enterprise Services Business with CSC (now DXC Technology), which started in 2016 and was completed in 2017 and the spin-off of HPE’s software business with Microfocus in 2017. ‘In this respect, my background as a corporate and M&A lawyer has been an asset in implementing the transformation in Italy. In fact, as an M&A lawyer I was familiar with the spin-off and merger technicalities, which allowed me to save time and attention for the team and business transformation’ says Toth. As the country counsel, she leads the Italian legal department with overall responsibility for all legal and corporate affairs of the HPE group in Italy including legal support in the area of commercial contracts, public procurement, labour law, corporate governance, ethics and compliance and local M&A transactions. Toth acts as the secretary of the HPE Italy board of directors and is a member of the Italy leadership team and of the local ethics and compliance team. Before joining HPE she served as a senior counsel at leading energy company Edison, where she was responsible for the legal and corporate support to the company’s international power development and gas infrastructures projects. Prior to this she was in private practice for 15 years, most of which was within the international law firm Allen & Overy in the Rome, London and Milan offices and as a foreign associate with the US firm Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in San Francisco.