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Head of legal | Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
Senior director, legal and investment compliance and risk | Greystar
Legal senior manager, dispute resolution and litigation legal department | Delta Electronics (Thailand)
First vice president, legal | Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
Assistant general counsel APAC | McKinsey & Company
Group general counsel | Waystone
Abogado apoderado - asesoría jurídica Lima | Shougang Hierro Perú
Chief legal officer and head of OML legal | Old Mutual
Chief legal counsel | Ignition Group
Executive vice president and general counsel | Reliance Worldwide Corporation
General Counsel | Inter American University
General counselor, head of legal division | Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait
Director of legal services | Nissan
Senior legal manager | Techint Group
General counsel | Genomma Lab
Regional general counsel and head of legal and external affairs, Americas and Europe | British American Tobacco
Vice president, legal and compliance, Andean market | Liberty Seguros Chile
Legal counsel | BCI Corredor de Bolsa
Legal advisor | Shougang Hierro Perú
Head of legal, Japan | Olympus Corporation
Dual-qualified in both Japan (2000) and New York (2006), Yoshiaki Sakurai’s legal career began with Nishimura & Asahi, where he practiced wide variety of areas including Corporate, M&A, Litigation...
General counsel Japan and member of the board | GlaxoSmithKline
Head of legal | Kyash
Country counsel for Japan | HP Japan
A graduate of the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California, Hiromi Shiraishi has held positions with established law firms in both the United States and Japan,...
First vice president, legal | Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
Head of investment and international transaction | SCG Legal Counsel
Group legal manager | RMA Group
| Raiffeisen Bank International
Head of legal | SBT - Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão
General counsel, assistance services worldwide and chief privacy officer | International SOS
Legal counsel | Hitachi Energy
Legal chapter area lead | Telstra
General counsel and company secretary | Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Australia and New Zealand
Senior vice president, general counsel, franchise relationship officer | McDonald's
Executive vice president and general counsel | Reliance Worldwide Corporation
Vice president compliance - chief compliance officer | Veridos
Please note that Nuray has now moved on to a new role from the time the research took place.
Senior vice president human resources legal | Air France
General Counsel | Conekta
Corporate legal counsel | Techint Group
Vice president of legal and compliance in Andes | Liberty Mutual Insurance
Legal advisor | Shougang Hierro Peru
Group general counsel | Waystone
General Counsel | Telstra
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Franchise Relationship Officer | McDonalds Australia
General counsel – Canada | Siemens
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary | Envision Healthcare
Executive vice president public policy and general counsel | Verizon
Executive vice president, general counsel | General Motors
Team size: 26 Major legal advisers: Addleshaw Goddard, Dentons, Eversheds Sutherland Network Rail has attracted attention for ripping up the rule book on legal panel design to try to deliver...
| The British Standards Institution
Team size: 14 Major legal advisers: Bindmans, Bird & Bird, Lewis Silkin, RPC, Travers Smith Grainne Brankin, GC of the 100-year-old UK national standards body, is leading its reformed approach...
Partner | Covington & Burling
Number of years practice: 38 Principal practice areas: M&A, corporate finance Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English, Spanish Noted for his experience in the life sciences, banking and insurance...
Head of legal | Cargill
Legal services executive – products and marketing | Telstra
‘Craig Emery has led a team through significant restructure and change, with a strong focus on the legal function supporting the strategic vision of the business into the future’.
| Raizen
Company secretary and general counsel | Coillte
Grainne McLaughlin has a formidable track record in private practice, as an in-house counsel and in the public and private sectors. McLaughlin trained with William Fry and worked in their...
Sub-manager of legal studies | Banco del Estado de Chile (BancoEstado)
Álvaro Larraín Fierro has been a lawyer in the legal department of Banco del Estado de Chile, a public Chilean bank, since January 2012. Last year was an important one...
Chief counsel and head of compliance – Chile | Liberty Seguros Chile
Francisca Larraín is an experienced corporate lawyer with a special focus on banking and finance, M&A, project finance and business organisations areas. She has been praised by nominators for her...
Legal affairs director | Aguas Andinas
Chile’s largest water utility, Aguas Andinas, supplies over an estimated eight million people in the country and therefore requires a best-in-class legal service to reflect its social importance. Fortunately the...
General counsel and compliance officer | Nestlé Chile
Andrés Eyzaguirre Larraín, general counsel and compliance officer at Nestlé Chile, is at the forefront of the in-house legal market in Chile and a highly skilled lawyer. At Nestlé he...
Partner | Covington & Burling
Number of years practice: 37 Principal practice areas: M&A, corporate finance Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English and Spanish Noted for his experience in the life sciences, banking and...
Partner | Herbert Smith Freehills
Based in: London Years of practice: 20 Languages spoken: English, French and Arabic Leading Herbert Smith Freehills’ international arbitration group in London, Craig Tevendale is known amongst peers as a...
Partner | Trinity
Based in: Paris and Casablanca Principal practice areas: Dispute resolution, commercial litigation, international arbitration Admissions: Paris Noted by peers, legal directories and the industry press for his projects work in...
| Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)
The legal and compliance team at Swiss Federal Railways (known as SBB) has led numerous complex commercial settlements and international transactions which have gained global recognition. The team is currently...
| Raiffeisen Schweiz
Led by head of legal and compliance, Nadja Ceregato, the legal team at Swiss cooperative bank Raiffeisen, has taken a guiding role in the businesses’ international law and intellectual property...
| Russian Railways (RZD)
One of the three largest transportation companies in the world, the importance of Russian Railway’s (RZD) operation to the Russian Federation as a whole cannot be overstated. With reported annual...
General Counsel | Vaasan Group
Tuula Rainto has extensive knowledge and experience with an in-house career that spans over 20 years. After working for companies in a variety of sectors, as well as a six...
| Qatar Railways Company
Over the last two years the legal department at the Qatar Railways Company has expanded to include specialised lawyers in the maintenance and operations of railway systems. Qatar Rail was...
| Batelco Group (Bahrain Telecommunications Company)
The Batelco Group (Bahrain Telecommunications Company), has grown from its initial regional presence to operate in14 different jurisdictions. The legal team at Batelco has also grown to a 16-strong diversified...
| Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company
Established in 2006, Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company actively manages and grows a portfolio of commercial assets. The growth of the company has prompted the addition of four new members to...
| Bahrain Airport Company (BAC)
Supported by a legal team of four, the Bahrain Airport Company (BAC) is responsible for the development and management of Bahrain International Airport. The recently installed legal team, directed by...
| Aluminium Bahrain
The legal team at Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) can look back on the past year as a particularly successful one. With ‘almost all’ outstanding and long-standing litigation and dispute matters resolved,...
| Almarai
Almarai – meaning ‘green pastures’ in Arabic – is the largest integrated dairy foods company in the world. The company has operations across the Gulf region including dairy farms, food...
deputy general counsel | Oman Oil Company, Oman
Former general counsel to Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), Mark Craig led Oman Oil Company’s €1.76bn Oxea Sarl acquisition. The company’s largest international acquisition to date, it was also the first...
general counsel | Esso Italiana
Holding the position as general counsel of Esso’s Italian subsidiary for almost 20 years, Raimondo Rinaldi takes pride in his legal department being recognised as ‘critical to flawless operations’ in...
| Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) is the Irish national public service broadcaster and provides Ireland’s national television and radio services. The company faces numerous legal challenges stemming from their various entities,...
General Counsel & Company Secretary | Malin
‘In terms of challenges, it’s about being able to deal with the issues which come across your desk – for example crisis management’, Padraic Roche says. ‘As head of legal...
Legal counsel | Azora Gestión SGIIC
An industry expert, María Eugenia Aldama Garaizabal was responsible for the legal management of GE Capital Real Estate, the real estate investment unit of the American conglomerate General Electric, in...
Head of legal | Villeroy & Boch
Rainer Kuhn is highly regarded in the market for setting up from scratch a ‘very efficient and competent team with a clear structure and segregation of duties’. Ceramic goods manufacturer...
| Groupe Limagrain
Groupe Limagrain is an important component of the French agricultural landscape, and provides the overall structure for a group of companies that boast impressive statistics in their various fields, with...
senior vice president HR legal | Air France
Most of Franck Raimbault’s legal career has been dedicated to Air France, the French flag carrier airline. He joined the company headquarters in 1995 after his role as a researcher...
| TrainOSE
TrainOSE is a Greek railway company which currently operates all passenger and freight trains on OSE lines in the country. TrainOSE was acquired in September 2017 by the Italian national...
| STASY (Urban Rail Transport)
Urban Rail Transport was founded in June 2011, and incorporated three rail companies that had existed up to that point: AMEL (a metro system operator), ISAP (an urban railway), and...
| Easybrain
Easybrain is an exciting new mobile game developer responsible for App Store and Google Play chart-topping games including Sudoku.com and Pixel Art. It has offices in both Belarus and Cyprus....
Chief legal counsel | ENGIE ENERGÍA CHILE
Almost since the beginning of his legal career, Aníbal Prieto Larrain has been involved in energy deals and the construction projects of energy related facilities. Starting out as a private...
General counsel | Banco Consorcio
Consorcio Financiero is a leading financial services group in Chile, engaged in a wide range of activities that manages a total of $13bn in assets. In charge of the legal...
| Canadian National Railway Company
Canadian National Railway Company (CN) is a major player in the shipping and transport sector in Canada and the US, shipping freight over 20,000 route-miles of track between the Atlantic...
| Canada Pacific Railway
The in-house legal department at Canada Pacific Railway (CP), one of the largest railway companies in North America, is expertly led by chief legal officer and corporate secretary Jeffrey J....
General counsel - Canada | Siemens
The multinational conglomerate Siemens has a significant presence in Canada with 4,500 employees and annual revenue of CAD$3bn. Richard Brait has successfully lead the legal and compliance groups for the...
| Raizen
Highly recommended for its cohesion and meritocratic work culture, the legal team at the core of the Brazilian telecommunications company Raizen has recently provided assistance on some high profile transactions....
General Counsel | Cetip
Cetip is one of the biggest companies within Brazil’s financial system, and despite a relatively rocky period for the sector in the country, Reinaldo Morais Filho continues to prove his...
General counsel and company secretary | ANZ Bank
‘Craig has led and continues to lead a fantastic legal team at ANZ’, opines one private practice source. Heading 32 lawyers supporting New Zealand’s largest financial institution, Craig Mulholland is...
Vice president general counsel and company secretary | McDonald's Australia
As vice president, general counsel and company secretary, Craig Cawood works closely with several different arms of the global brand’s national business. He is responsible for all legal matters in...
Legal manager | Sistema Brasileiro de Televisao
Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (SBT) is one of the largest television networks in Brazil with a whole variety of programming including news, children’s shows, soap operas, game shows, movies and...
Head legal – India, Thailand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh | AkzoNobel India
Bringing over a decade of private practice and telecoms experience, Sudhanshu Rai has served as AkzoNobel’s head legal for India, Thailand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh since May 2016 handling...
| Raiffeisen Bank International
Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is proud of its 30 year presence in the Central and Eastern European market, considering the region as its home market with subsidiary...
| Philip Morris Ukraine
The Ukrainian legal team of Philip Morris International (PMI) has impressed nominating sources for its performance under the expert direction of Natalya Bondarenko, director of corporate affairs, since 2016. The...
| Naftogaz of Ukraine
Founded in 1998, Naftogaz of Ukraine is the national oil and gas company of Ukraine and is involved with the extraction, transportation, and refinement of natural gas and crude oil....
| Henkel Ukraine
With a several-decade presence in the Ukrainian market, Henkel’s subsidiary in Ukraine has established itself as a national market leader in the manufacture of soap, detergents, cleaning, polishing products, perfumes...
General counsel and company secretary | Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Australia and New Zealand
Lorraine Parrott is passionate about challenging the perception that lawyers are barriers to business and is a strong advocate for promoting their value proposition. With an expertise in motor vehicle...
Senior vice president, group general counsel and company secretary | Redflex
Craig Durham was appointed as group general counsel and company secretary of Redflex in February 2015, and was afforded the lead legal position at the vehicle monitoring and enforcement services...
| China Railway Construction Corporation
The China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) is China’s largest construction company operating numerous projects across the world. The state owned entity is dual listed on the Hong Kong and Shanghai...
| Almarai
Before Khalid Alaseeri assumed the general counsel position at the Arabian dairy manufacturing company Almarai, the company’s legal team had a hierarchal structure of organisation with layers below the general...
| Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company
The legal department at Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company – the sovereign wealth fund of Bahrain – has undergone a major structural overhaul of its previously undocumented processes, in addition to...
| Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana
Owning 14 television channels and six radio stations, Rai – Radiotelevisione Italiana is the largest television company in Italy. It is an Italian state owned public service broadcaster managed by...
| Raiffeisen
Raiffeisen is a systematically important universal bank in Switzerland, with a focus on providing a range of products and services to large corporations, private individuals and multiple distribution channels. The...
General counsel | Esso Italiana
Raimondo Rinaldi has been the general counsel of Esso Italiana since 1997, and from 1998 to 2008 he also managed the coordination of legal services to ExxonMobil affiliates in the...
| Interairports
After taking on the challenge of converting the country’s airports into modern, efficient, and operational models according to international standards, Interairports manages and operates Honduras’ four international air terminals located...
Corporate counsel international | The Brink’s Company
Jorge Zemborain is described as ‘an outstanding lawyer . . . smart, committed, extremely efficient [and] a great team leader’ by one nominator. Since 2010 he has overseen legal operations...
General counsel | Pan-American Life Insurance Group
Pan-American Life Insurance Group is US-based group of international insurance and reinsurance companies with branches and affiliates Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, and 13 Caribbean...
Legal director Latin America | Genesys
Since 2012, Jaime Borja Lascurain has been legal director for Latin America at customer experience and call centre technology provider Genesys, overseeing everything from intellectual property to litigation and compliance...
| Larraín Vial
Founded in 1934 and headquartered in Santiago, Larraín Vial currently ranks as one of the biggest financial intermediation and advisory firms in Latin America. The company has launched offices in...
Corporate lawyer | Pantos Logistics Mexico
A corporate lawyer of repute, Ahiram Sarai Barbosa Celis has a track record of providing excellent legal and business advice in a number of roles. She currently ‘reviews all contracts...
| Network Rail
Network Rail GC Stuart Kelly’s second stint at the UK railway infrastructure owner, and subsequent promotion to its top legal job in early 2017, has come with what he describes...
Senior vice president human resources legal | Air France
Franck Raimbault’s labour law expertise has manifested itself both academically and professionally at the highest levels. Academically, he has gained a PhD focusing specifically on labour law and has operated...
| Transnet Freight Rail
Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), the largest operating division of Transnet, forms part of the backbone of the South African economy via its freight services, innovation and investment in strategic infrastructure....
head of legal and company secretary | African Banking Corporation of Zimbabwe Limited (BANCABC)
A solution-oriented and innovative lawyer characterised by her strategic approach to business and her ‘outside the box’ method of thinking, Mirirai Washaya receives praise by a source for her ‘strong...
Senior vice president - legal affairs | flydubai
The huge expansion of airline operations in the Middle East, especially the GCC states, has been one of the most obvious success stories of the region’s economic plan over the...
Head of legal | Oman Investment Fund
The Oman Investment Fund is sovereign wealth fund that was established in 2006, and provides medium to long-term investments, globally and domestically across several market sectors in order to diversify...
Partner and Practice Lead for Latin America Initiative | Covington & Burling
Number of years practice: 35 Law school attended: Harvard Law School Languages spoken: English, Portuguese and Spanish Principal practice areas: M&A Admissions: New York With well over three decades of...
National public broadcasting company Rai is the biggest broadcaster in Italy with 15 televisions and seven radio channels nationwide. The legal team has been behind strengthening its reputation and brand as one of the most treasured broadcasting networks in Italy and a cornerstone of Italian media culture. With plans to grow globally, Rai has expanded to neighbouring countries including Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Slovenia, Vatican City, Switzerland and Tunisia and elsewhere on cable and satellite. With global expansion, the legal team has had to improve its knowledge and expertise related to these jurisdictions, gaining international legal savviness to help them deal with matters at hand and solidify the networks’ roots in surrounding countries. Keeping abreast of emerging media regulations in the region over the years has been of utmost priority to the team.