| Eni
Eni
Data center counsel | google
Head of legal, Asia-Pacific | Takeda Pharmaceuticals Asia Pacific
Head of legal advice | Banco de Machala
Legal manager | Pronaca
Business manager | Indatta (Grupo Sofía)
Vice-President Legal | Idemia
Head of legal and general partner | Roca X Management
Legal director, directorate member | RetuRO
Chief legal counsel | PRIDCO
Legal department manager | TotalEnergies
Chief legal officer | The Cyprus Development Bank
General counsel | TAPCLAP
General legal counsel, corporate secretary, member of ESG committee | Gek Terna
General counsel | FxPro
Director of legal affairs and corporate governance, secretary to the board of directors | Athens International Airport
Secretary of the board, head of legal services and corporate governance | AstroBank
Director general jurídico | Grupo Elektra
Director of Corporate Affairs and Major Transactions | Wind Tre
Head of legal | Trenitalia
General counsel and chief compliance officer | GenScript Biotech Corporation
| Phoenix Group Holdings
Legal and compliance director, Colombia, Central America and the Caribbean | SGS Colombia
Advisor legal vicepresidency | Grupo Energía Bogotá
Gerente nacional del area legal | Inmobiliaria Kantutani
Directora de asuntos juridicos | Compañia Industrial Comercial Hermanos Vicente
Senior executive officer and general manager of legal division | Nitori Holdings
Head of legal and compliance BAT East and Southern Africa | British American Tobacco
Head of Legal | Central Group
Head of legal and regulatory compliance and data protection officer | bank99
Legal expert | Ege Yeni Nesil Enerji
Legal coordinator | STAR Rafineri
Chief legal and compliance officer | KoçSistem
Head of legal | Insider.
Head of litigation | Garanti BBVA
Chief counsel - legal, compliance and public affairs - Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay. | Marsh McLennan Companies
Head of legal | Losch Luxembourg
General counsel | KPMG Luxembourg
Associate general counsel digital media, Alexa, devices, books and Kindle content EMEA | Amazon
General counsel and group company secretary | Mercedes-Benz South Africa
Associate general counsel - Product SSA Latam | Airbnb
Victoria´s background includes operating in fast-paced legal departments supporting the business and managing efficiency and simplification of in-house legal departments for over 20 years. Victoria is experienced in multi-country environments...
General counsel and chief compliance officer | PayJoy
Head of legal and general partner | Roca X Management
Sonia Fedorovici is a general partner and the head of legal at Roca X — the largest privately funded Venture Capital Fund in Romania. Under her guidance the fund’s management...
Legal director member of the board of directors | RetuRO
Chief Legal counsel | PRIDCO
Legal department manager | TotalEnergies
Capital markets senior legal manager | BBVA Mexico
Legal manager | Pronaca
| Fresenius Medical Care
| dsm-firmenich
Head of legal | Upstream
Head of legal department | GEK TERNA Group of Companies
Head of legal | Elpen Pharmaceutical Co.
Director of legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors | Athens International Airport
Secretary of the board, head of legal services and corporate governance | AstroBank
Vice president legal and public affairs, head of corporate communications, quality and sustainability | AB Vassilopoulos
Head of legal | Trenitalia
Head of legal and corporate affairs | Arvedi Acciai Speciali Terni
Legal director | MAPFRE BHD SEGUROS
Legal and compliance director, Colombia and Central America | SGS Colombia
Senior advisor, legal vice president | Grupo Energía Bogotá
Legal counsel | Nacional Seguros Vida y Salud
Gerente legal | Inmobiliaria Kantutani
Chief legal counsel and compliance officer | Marsh McLennan
Legal corporate manager | CERÁMICA LIMA
Legal director | Equinix
Senior executive officer, head of legal division | Nitori Holdings
| Implenia
Legal manager on institutional compliance | Multiplan Empreendimentos Imobiliários
Head of privacy legal | Philips
Domenico is a qualified European attorney, a professional mediator and the head of privacy legal at Philips. In this role, he leads the central privacy legal team and advises on...
General counsel | KPMG Luxembourg
Head of legal and corporate secretary | Baloise
Legal coordinator | STAR Rafineri
Head of legal affairs department | Metro Properties Gayrimenkul Yatırım
Chief legal and compliance officer | Koç Information Group
Senior corporate counsel and deputy manager of commercial and legal department of China Harbour Engineering Company Americas Division, Assistant general counsel of China Harbour Engineering Head Office in Beijing & commercial and legal Department director for the Fourth Bridge Over the Panama Canal Project in Panama. | China Harbour Engineering Company
Head of compliance | BAC Credomatic
Head of ethics and compliance, MOAI (Asia Pacific) | Ericsson
Lead data center counsel APAC | Google
Deputy CEO and chief legal counsel | Phoenix Holding
Head of legal services, head of corporate governance and secretary of the board | Astrobank
Director legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors | Athens International Airport
Senior counsel | Titan Cement Company
Vice president legal and public affairs | AB Vassilopoulos (Ahold Delhaize Group)
Head of legal | Upstream
Head of legal department | GEK TERNA Group of Companies
General counsel and chief compliance officer | PayJoy
General counsel | Grupo Elektra
Vice president legal, integrity leader and women | NielsenIQ
Legal director RHH | Cash
Latin America geo lead and associate general counsel | Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Chief regional counsel | The Walt Disney Company
Legal and government affairs director for South Latin America | Kimberly-Clark
Legal manager - vice president | Marsh Peru
Corporate legal manager | Grupo Celima
Advisor - legal vice president | Grupo Energía Bogotá
Legal director | Odinsa
Legal director | Mapfre
Head of legal and compliance | bank99
General counsel | KPMG Luxembourg
Associate general counsel digital media, Kindle and devices EU | Amazon Europe Core Sarl
Legal affairs and compliance manager | KPMG
Legal coordinator | STAR Rafineri A.Ş.
Head of legal affairs department | Metro Properties
Chief legal and compliance officer | Koç Sistem Bilgi ve İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş.
General Counsel ANZ | 3M Australia
Group general counsel, corporate secretary and board member | Generali Group
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary | HollyFrontier
Senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary | IDEX Corporation
Chief legal counsel | KoçSistem
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? KoçSistem and Boston Consulting Group partnership and establishment of “KoçDigital Çözümler...
Head of Legal Affairs Division | METRO PROPERTIES
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Despite the difficulties in Turkey’s economy and the challenges in commercial...
Senior legal counsel | Yandex Reklamcılık (Yandex Türkiye)
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? In the last two years I have been involved in valuable...
Partner | Shearman & Sterling
Number of years practice: 29 Principal practice areas: Project Development & Finance; Banking & Finance Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English What differentiates your Mexico-facing practice from those of...
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? The legal team in Central America and the Caribbean is very...
Senior legal manager and head of legal Russia | Sony Electronics
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? The most important litigation that I have been involved in during...
Head of legal practice division | Yandex
General counsel and corporate secretary | Sydney Water Corporation
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Legal advice and contractual and negotiation support for the rollout of...
| Fresenius Medical Care
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? The Brazilian legal team of Fresenius Medical Care reports directly to...
Head of legal | Acatus
Formerly an attorney with Allen & Overy and a legal counsel for UBS, Ksenia Gräfin von Bassewitz moved to a digital capital markets start-up Acatus in late 2017. She hit...
SVP - Head of group tax | Statkraft - Group Tax
What would you say are the unique qualities required to be successful as an in-house lawyer in your industry? In my experience the key qualities required to be successful are...
CEO | Mutual de Seguridad de la CChC
Since being featured in the inaugural GC Powerlist: Chile 2017, Felipe Bunster Echenique has demonstrated not only expert legal skills but also a high level of business acumen at Mutual...
General counsel and corporate secretary | Smoothie King
‘Michael Sukenik is a great, thoughtful lawyer who joined Smoothie King in March 2018 and, in the short time he has been there, built an entire legal department from the...
Fintech, Sponsors and Investors | TransferWise
Team size: 7 Major law firms used: Allen & Overy, JAG Shaw Baker, Paul Hastings At payment firm TransferWise, GC Jenifer Swallow says everyone ages in dog years: ‘There’s just...
Partner | Shearman & Sterling
Number of years practice: 29 Principal practice areas: Project development finance Bar admissions: New York, District of Columbia Languages spoken: English Guyana-born Denise Grant counts corporate, acquisition, leveraged and project...
| SENER Grupo de Ingeniería
Representing one of Spain’s leading engineering and technologies organisations, SENER’s legal team of 13 professionals aim to control all legal and operational risk across the group’s diverse industrial holdings. Led...
| Karadeniz Holding
Karadeniz Holding is a major energy production holding company operating in 16 countries across the globe and is a major innovator in the power generation industry thanks to its production...
| DenizBank
As Turkey’s sixth largest bank in terms of assets, DenizBank has a team of highly competent lawyers to complement its leading reputation in the country as a well-established state-owned bank...
| Karadeniz Holding
Founded in 1948, Karadeniz Holding operates in more than a dozen countries, with its primary activities focused on the energy sector. As the world’s only owner and operator of a...
Head of legal | BP
When he joined BP Turkey as the head of legal, Deniz Reha Özilhan’s first and defining task was the establishment of the legal department in the company. For that purpose...
| Galenica
Headed by Oliver Kronenberg, group general counsel, the legal team at Galenica consider themselves a big driver in completing integral business development and licensing deals. The team is made up...
Group General Counsel | Nobel Biocare Holding AG
Jörg Von Manger-Koenig has played an integral part in growing the legal department into a global heavy function that integrates legal, IP and compliance, regulatory affairs, quality management and human...
Head of legal – Asia Pacific | Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Berenice Lim, head of legal Asia Pacific at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, started her career as a scientist. After studying biotechnology at Murdoch University she pursued research in molecular oncology at the...
Head of Legal (Russia) | Sony Electronics CJSC
‘I like the legal profession itself and enjoy when I’m able to propose possibilities for business development’, says Evgeniya. Though Evgeniya Vetoshnikova was only 27 when she was appointed Sony...
Head of Legal | MosStroiTransGas (MSTG)
Evgeniy manages the 11-strong legal function of leading Russian oil and gas business, MosStroiTransGas (MSTG). Joining the legal department at a difficult time for the company and establishing a team...
Group Legal Counsel | Ricoh Rus
As group legal counsel for Russia at Ricoh Rus, the Russian arm of an international image electronics company, Evgenia Solomentseva has the opportunity to interact with representatives of many international...
Head of Legal | VEB-Leasing OJSC
VEB Leasing’s national legal department, its direction and performance criteria were created in 2008 under Denis Shkolnikov’s management. Now heading a 30-strong team, Denis is proud of having created the...
| Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has a proficient legal department, which consists of seven lawyers and one jurist. The team operates on a virtual basis with four colleagues based across Europe, two...
| Elenia
The legal department of Elenia, the Finnish utility company, is widely regarded as a well-run and proactive function. General counsel Teemu Hovi describes the role and responsibilities of the legal...
General counsel | ICE Services AB
Established in 2010, ICE has developed quickly into a world-class service centre for the global management of musical rights. The company offers a professional and efficient service, which enables music...
Group general counsel | Tele2
Caroline Fellenius-Omndell is recognised for her ability to successfully build and develop legal teams globally and is now driving change in Tele2’s legal and regulatory department across nine jurisdictions. Fellenius-Omndell...
| Marubeni Middle East & Africa Power Limited (MAMEA)
Marubeni Middle East & Africa Power (MAMEA) was set up by the Marubeni Corporation, based in Japan, to assist with the development of all major independent projects in the Middle...
| Engenium Capital
Engenium Capital is a leading financial specialist in the Mexican leasing and business credit sector with a portfolio of over $1tn in assets. The company was created when GE Capital...
Vice president legal and ombudsman, Latin America | Nielsen
Chief legal counsel for Latin America at global market analysis behemoth, The Nielsen Company, Denise Guillén’s responsibilities cover 18 countries. Since her arrival at the company three years ago, she...
Counsel - Andean Region | Abbott
Formerly at Citibank in Bogotá, Colombia, Natalia Benítez has been at global pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories for almost five years and is currently counsel for the Andean region. ‘I chose...
Head of Legal, Data Privacy and Compliance Officer, Ireland | Microsoft
A US-qualified lawyer, Denise Farnsworth has exceptional industry experience, following a decade and a half at technology giant, Microsoft, and six years in Apple’s legal department. Arriving at Microsoft in...
Deputy general manager - legal and company secretary | Toyota Kirloskar Motor
After graduating in law, Shreenivasa P. Gotur practiced in a Bangalore-based law firm between 1994-98 with a focus on constitutional laws, civil litigation, conveyancing and drafting. He then joined Toyota...
Head of legal services - Abengoa Projects Warehouse | Abengoa
Abengoa is an IBEX 35 listed Spanish multinational company that creates innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and environment sectors. Since joining in 2010, Pablo Echenique Conde has...
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...
| The Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator (DESFA)
Organised across three departments devoted to property law and land acquisition, contracts and labour law and legislative and regulatory affairs teams, all sections being manned with both senior and junior...
| Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation (OTE Group)
OTE Group is the largest telecommunications provider in the Greek market, offering a full range of telecommunications services. These include fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband services, to pay television and...
| Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF)
HRADF‘s establishment in 2011 in order to manage a large number of state assets has been successful in creating public wealth through privatisation of government assets. ‘Acting with a high...
| Hellenic Petroleum
One of the larger in-house teams in the region at 34-strong, Hellenic Petroleum’s legal team brings real internal clout to bear on the myriad issues it undertakes on behalf of...
| Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO)
HEDNO is the operator of the Greek national energy grid network and possesses a set of talented in-house lawyers. The team has worked on a number of major transactions including...
| Hellenic Bank
Chief legal officer Calliopi Nicolaidou is clear that each of the 19 members of the Hellenic Bank in-house legal team ‘have added substantial value to the work of the team’....
| ELTA (Hellenic Post)
ELTA (Hellenic Post) is the state-owned provider of postal services in Greece. It succeeded the former government postal service, that was founded in 1828. ELTA provides a universal postal service...
| Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company
Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (CCHBC) has a legal function of approximately 100 in-house lawyers operating across 28 countries. The group in-house legal team consists of ten lawyers that are located...
| Pórticos Ingenieros Civiles
Pórticos Ingenieros Civiles is a construction company located in the city of Medellín, with more than 31 years in business and over than 300 projects such as offices, apartments, warehouses,...
Director of International Legal Affairs | Grupo Odinsa
Andrea Eugenia Camargo Niño joined Colombian construction and infrastructure development company Odinsa in early 2015. In a relatively short period of time she has helped to execute a number of...
Head of legal, Asia Pacific (excluding China) | Tesla Motors, Hong Kong
In a number of ways, Denise Ho’s background made her an ideal candidate to set up the legal function for Tesla’s operations in Hong Kong. Firstly, although she always coveted...
| Fresenius Medical Care
The Chilean operations of Fresenius Medical Care (FMC), the world’s leading provider of products and services for people with chronic kidney failure, are supported by a lean two-person legal team....
Senior director and general counsel | Ooredoo Asia
‘Incredibly hands on, very good at managing external resources,’ Scott Weenink has vast experience in the telecommunications sector, spanning Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Mobile communications investment company Ooredoo...
Associate general counsel digital media/Kindle/devices EU | Amazon Europe Core
Michael Koenig joined Amazon Luxembourg in September 2012, in the role of associate general counsel digital media Europe, and over the years has assumed additional responsibilities within several areas of...
Head of legal and compliance | KPMG
Antonio Benítez-Donoso Tarascón started his career as a lawyer in 2004 at one of Spain’s largest law firms, Uria Menendez. After six months in the corporate department, he switched to...
Area legal head, Asia Pacific | Takeda Pharmaceuticals
The Takeda Pharmaceuticals area legal head for Asia Pacific position was created in 2015, and was filled by Berenice Lim shortly afterwards. Upon taking over, Lim got to work ‘shaping...
Managing director – head of legal Brazil | Goldman Sachs
Ricardo Genis Mourão joined Goldman Sachs in 2011 and was named managing director in 2015. Prior to joining the firm, Mourão was an external counsel in banking and securities in...
General counsel | BVC-Banque Cantonale Vaudoise
Philippe L’Eplattenier is an established financial lawyer in the country, having worked for several multinational banks and financial institutions throughout his career. He currently serves as the general counsel for...
| Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics
Founded less than 20 years ago following a merger of a Norwegian and a Swedish company, Wallenius Wilhelmsen has developed exponentially and established itself as a market leader in RoRo...
| Eni Norge
Eni is an Italian-headquartered major energy company, and whose Norwegian subsidiary – Eni Norge – was first founded in 1965. The company has had a major impact in the history...
| Fresenius Medical Care
A world leader in renal dialysis machines, Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) is known as one of the fastest-growing companies in Germany, posting €17.7bn in revenue in 2017. The company successfully...
General counsel and corporate secretary | Sydney Water Corporation
Denisha Anbu started her legal career at international law firm King & Wood Mallesons practicing there for 14 years predominately in the telecommunications, media and technology sector and worked in...
| Fresenius Medical Care Asia Pacific
The legal team at Fresenius Medical Care Asia Pacific is led by Jean DeSombre, senior vice president and general counsel of Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong, the company’s Asia...
General counsel | Banca Generali
Distinguished financial lawyer Domenica Lista started her career working for international law firms and cooperating with the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs in the European litigation department. It was approximately...
| Fresenius Medical Care Asia Pacific
The legal team at Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong, the company’s Asia Pacific headquarters continues to impress after its inclusion in last year’s list, providing...
| Ingenico
Global financial technology leader Ingenico has innovation at the very heart of its business proposition, and its diverse and well-resourced legal function has a correspondingly forward-thinking outlook. It has recently...
Executive vice president and general counsel | Skanska
Group general counsel of the world leading construction and project development firm Skanska, Caroline Fellenius-Omnell first joined the company in 2017 after gaining an impressive array of experience in the...
Chief legal officer, Latin America/Caribbean and global senior counsel | Yum! Brands
Over the course of his career Michael Sukenik has built up an impressive array of experience in the legal sector, from working in private practice, in-house and at the US...
| Eni
With operations in 73 different countries around the globe and roughly 33,000 employees, the Eni legal team must possess a broad range of technical skill to support the Italian multinational...
| Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Italy
Giovanni Barone is the legal affairs director for The Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company in Italy, and the business – a bottling partner of The Coca‑Cola Company – relies on Barone...
General legal director | Grupo Elektra
As a leading specialised financial and commercial services company in Latin America and the largest provider of short-term non-banking loans in the US, Grupo Elektra is one Mexico’s most successful...
Head of real estate group legal | M.video
As the largest Russian electronic retail chain by revenue, M.video operates a vast real estate portfolio that consists of 382 brand name stores in 162 Russian cities with a total...
Group legal counsel | Ricoh Rus
From a value perspective, Evgenia Solomentseva has developed a strong legal department at Ricoh’s business in Russia, by hiring a team of specialists who support all spheres of the company’s...
Senior vice president head of group tax | Statkraft
Lars Henie is known as an ‘excellent’ lawyer who also holds the position of head of tax in the Norwegian multinational group Statkraft, a leading company in hydropower internationally and...
Legal director - financial issues | Grupo Odinsa
Odinsa, an infrastructure construction company and a subsidiary of Grupo Argos, is a Colombian company dedicated to the structuring, promotion, management and development of road and airport infrastructure projects focusing...
Legal counsel | Yandex Reklamcılık (Yandex Turkey)
Elçin Erdeniz currently serves as the only legal counsel of Yandex Reklamcılık, a technology company that builds intelligence products and services powered by machine learning. Erdeniz has had the opportunity...
Head of HR and legal department | ERGO Group
ERGO’s Denis Golubovich is a multidimensional lawyer capable of seamlessly navigating cross-functional teams and implementing new process innovations to achieve speed and efficiency when delivering legal advice. Having headed the...
| Fresenius Kabi
With almost 15 years of presence in Chile, Fresenius Kabi has a prominent place in the regional market for its production of dialysis products and services. Given the high regulatory...
| Firmenich
Firmenich’s international perfumery operation accounts for over 2,900 patents and provides employment for approximately 7,000 employees around the world, two factors that alone provide a wealth of challenges for its...
Legal manager | PepsiCo
Peru-based Xenia Vizcarra Schaffler is the legal and government affairs manager for PepsiCo, who manages all legal aspects related to PepsiCo’s beverage and snack businesses in the country and dispenses...
Legal, compliance and public affairs | Marsh Rehder
‘Awareness and understanding of [the] regulatory framework and risks that our operations face is one of the most important objectives of my department. Since I assumed the responsibility to lead...
Legal and integrity manager | ABB
As the legal and integrity manager for the ABB subsidiary in Peru, a position she has been in since April 2013, Yesenia Marina Quiroz Zegarra has been key to multiple...
Vice president, legal and leader of integration (Latin America) | Nielsen
Denise Guillén Lara has practiced at a varied set of companies and firms over the course of a 24-year legal career, prior to joining Nielsen, Guillén directed and collaborated in...
Head of legal | Upstream
Since 2010, Eleni Stathaki has headed the legal function of Upstream, a leading mobile commerce company in high-growth and developing markets. Since joining Upstream as sole the in-house counsel with...
Consumer products | AB Vassilopoulos (Ahold Delhaize Group)
The current vice president of legal affairs for Greek supermarket chain AB Vassilopoulos, Eleni Providi was an instrumental part of the biggest deal in the history of the organisation, the...
Director legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors | Athens International Airport
‘Confident, smart and sharp’ according to nominators, Eugenia Papathanasopoulou has served as the director of legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors of Athens International Airport since September...
Senior counsel and board secretary | Titan Cement Company
Eleni Papapanou serves as the senior counsel and board secretary for Titan Cement Company, a large multinational cement and building materials producing firm based in Greece. Serving as its senior...
| Tek Experts Global
Evyenia Kelly Epaminondou took on her current role as senior legal officer at business process outsourcing and IT support company Tek Experts after a seven-year period as a private practice...
Legal counsel | Terna Energy
Listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, Terna Energy is a Greek renewable energy company that pulls in an annual revenue figure of approximately €160m via its operations in the energy,...
| Zenith Bank
Despite operating in a challenging economic environment that saw the Nigerian economy move into recession in August 2016, Zenith Bank has shown its resilience and versatility to remain one of...
Legal advisor | Samsung West Africa
Supporting a global brand in Nigeria’s complex and evolving telecommunications industry, ‘deep thinker’ Senibo Bara-Hart faces a range of tactical and legal challenges. For some sources, Bara-Hart’s real added value...
Legal & compliance counsel West Africa | Baker Hughes
‘A consummate professional’ and ‘creative personality’, Adewonuola Adeniran has covered legal operations across Western and Sub-Saharan Africa during her time at Baker Hughes. Formerly at Honeywell, Adeniran has won the...
Partner | Shearman & Sterling
Number of years practice: 28 Law school attended: Georgetown University Law Center Languages spoken: English Principal practice areas: Project Development Finance Admissions: District of Columbia, New York Denise Grant has...
Italian global oil and gas super player, Eni, operates in 67 countries worldwide and employs more than 30,000 people. The legal team is made up of 253 lawyers and 38 additional supporting staff globally. The team is split between business support and centralised corporate functions and includes separate legal teams in the most relevant jurisdiction where Eni operates. The several departments are each headed by senior lawyers with teams that report to the recently appointed general counsel senior executive vice president, Stefano Speroni, who coordinates the relevant activities and brings 35 years of expereince in corporate matters and M&A. All the departments overlook and coordinate the procurement acitivites in the relevant business area as well as litigation generated in the business areas. Eni has assisted in a variety of transactions including the acqusition of a 30% interest in Adnoc, the worldwide largest refinery, the assignment of numerous licence and permits in the Gulf area and succesfully defending criminal cases in respect to alleged corruption in Nigeria by its subsidiary Saipem. The legal team is divided into the following departments: exploration and production, midstream, refining and marketing, chemicals, Italy, renewables and eco fuels and criminal, environemental and health and safety. Speroni explains that the legal department is initiating a new culture that may be summarised by the “explain to complain” motto. ‘The rationale is that legal peculiarities of the oil and gas business needs first to be explained internally and externally to make any stakeholder understand the specificities. Technical ability in the sector is not sufficient to provide the adequate results and management of risks unless anyone, lawyers first, may represent how processes are handled and the nature and rationale underlying the business’, says Speroni.