| ERG
ERG
Executive vice president and general counsel | Rafael
Legal adviser | Ashdod Port
General counsel | Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical
In-house lawyer | BNP Paribas Cardif
Asesor legal | YPFB Andina
Gerente nacional legal | Toyosa
Gerente legal | Jalasoft
Sub gerente nacional legal | Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento (SOBOCE)
Gerente legal | Banco Mercantil
Operating partner and general counsel | Speedinvest
General counsel | KTM
Vice president, legal, general counsel | PepsiCo Brasil
General Counsel for Latin America | Experian
Group general counsel | Nordic Bioscience
Group general counsel | KK Wind Solutions
Senior vice president, general counsel | JN Data
Group general counsel | Gabriel
Chief legal officer | Web3 Foundation
General counsel | Bossard Group
Head of law, patents and compliance | Bayer Consumer Care
Director jurídico regulatorio | Interprotección
General counsel and vice president, EMEA | Gates Industrial Europe
General counsel | Huawei Technologies Africa
Legal director - Latam | MPC Capital
Gabriela Bergantino is the legal director, Latam at MPC Capital, manager and co-investor for real asset investments focusing on real estate, renewable energy, and shipping. Gabriela manages the renewable energy...
General counsel and corporate secretary | Helios Technologies
Marc A. Greenberg has served as the general counsel and secretary of Helios Technologies since January 4, 2022. He joined the company as associate general counsel in January 2021. He...
Group general counsel | LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
General counsel, executive vice president/ corporate legal | HSBC
Chief legal officer | Terlato Wine Group
Head of legal, procurement global contrats and tenders | Enel Group
Legal director | Andros
Deputy general counsel | Cleanaway Waste Management
| Siemens Energy
| Pavilion Energy Legal, Compliance & Sustainability Division
| Aquila Clean Energy
Lawyer and legal counsel | Artha Capital and Frontier Industrial & Logistics Real Estate
Vice president of business and legal affairs | Lantica Media
Head of legal and compliance officer, Chile | Grünenthal
Head of legal | BNP Paribas Cardif
Gerente nacional legal | Toyosa
Gerente nacional legal | Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento (SOBOCE)
Gerente asuntos legales | Banco Mercantil Santa Cruz
Jefe legal y administrativo | Banco Ganadero
Bergman Balcazar Roca, lawyer by profession, obtained their Bachelor of legal sciences from Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and is currently studying the last module of their...
General counsel and company secretary | Prefchem
| MAN Energy Solutions
| Hitachi Energy
| European Energy
| Energi Danmark
| Carlsberg Group
| Wienerberger
| Wien Energie
| Siemens Energy
| Energie Oberösterreich
General Counsel for Latin America | Experian
Chief legal officer | Web3Foundation
Group general counsel and executive vice president | CSL Vifor
Senior legal counsel - head of Western Europe regional team | Umicore
Legal affairs manager | Danone Turkey
Legal and compliance manager | Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası
Head of legal and compliance, Tunisia, Morocco and Levant | Novo Nordisk
Director, legal and compliance | Multi Türkiye (Multi Corporation)
| EDF Energy Renewables UK & Ireland
Legal director - LATAM | MPC Capital
Gabriela Bergantino is the legal director, Latam at MPC Capital, manager and co-investor for real asset investments focusing on real estate, renewable energy, and shipping. Gabriela manages the renewable energy segment of the business. With...
General counsel | Israel Biotech Fund
General counsel | Lightricks
Noa grew up in Ramat Gan and served in an elite unit in the IDF. After her service, she received her LLB and Ba in economics from Tel Aviv University...
Vice president, general counsel | Rapac Energy
Deputy general counsel and head of HR | NVIDIA
Gideon Rosenberg is the deputy general counsel at NVIDIA Corporation and the head of HR for Nvidia Israel. He has over 20 years of experience and is qualified in Israel...
Senior vice president, general counsel corporate | Teva Pharmaceuticals
General counsel | On Track Innovations
General counsel | Spinomenal
General counsel | Heraeus Holding
Head of legal affairs | Deutsche Telekom
Group general counsel and chief compliance officer | Securing Energy for Europe
Dr. Joerg Kammerer is group general counsel and chief compliance officer of Securing Energy for Europe (until June 2022 GAZPROM Germania). Securing Energy for Europe is one of the biggest...
CTS Country legal head Germany and Austria | Novartis Business Services
General counsel | VDMA
Head of corporare office, vice president legal affairs | Uniper
Andrea Schoeneberg is vice president of corporate legal and head of corporate office at stock-listed Uniper. In her role, Andrea acts as a strategic advisor on legal questions to the...
Deputy general counsel - claims | QBE Insurance
Deputy general counsel, office of general counsel – defence legal | Australian Department of Defence
Senior legal director and trademark counsel for LatAm | PepsiCo
General counsel and corporate secretary | Helios Technologies
Chief legal and instiutional affairs officer | Grupo Aeroméxico
General counsel | Grupo Supervielle
Vice president legal and risk director - business ethics partner | Securitas Argentina
Deputy general counsel, head of litigation | Scotiabank Chile
Legal manager of regulatory & environmental affairs | Pluspetrol
Legal director | Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
Business and legal affairs director | Lantica Media
General counsel | KTM
General counsel | Speedinvest
Head of legal, Spain and Portugal | Google
Legal and compliance manager | Volkswagen Doğuş Finans
| Siemens Energy
| Kongsberg Gruppen ASA
Group General Counsel | KK Wind Solutions
Legal Counsel | Arbejdernes Landsbank
Director - head of legal operations and transformation | KPMG Acor Tax
Legal Counsel | Niras
Group General Counsel | Gabriel Holding A/S
Head of legal, Switzerland and Austria | Google
Group general counsel and executive vice president | Vifor Pharma
Chief operating officer and general counsel | Insight Productions
Editor’s note: This interview was conducted prior to March 2020. What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? In...
Senior vice president and general counsel | Dell Technologies
Executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Qualcomm
Vice president, general counsel and secretary | Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
Executive vice president and chief legal officer | Union Pacific
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | American Electric Power
Director, legal affairs | Sabancı Holding
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? The sale of 57.88% shares of Yünsa, a publicly traded company...
Head of legal and compliance | Volkswagen Doğuş Finansman
Partner and Latin America Initiative co-coordinator | Ropes & Gray LLP
Number of years practice: 14 Principal practice areas: Anti-Corruption and International Risk; Government Enforcement/White-collar Criminal Defense; Corporate and Securities Litigation; Business and Commercial Litigation; Securities and Futures Enforcement Bar admissions:...
Director general and legal counsel | New Development Bank (NDB)
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? The legal department is structured with a general counsel, a group...
Legal, compliance and quality director Russia and Belarus | Novo Nordisk
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? A localisation (CMO) deal for our Biopharma portfolio in Russia, in...
Chief legal officer at PJSC MMK, director of MMK-Pravo | MMK-Pravo
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? During the last two years, our company has provided legal support...
Head of legal and member of the board | Exclases Holdings
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? First, constant support for the sale and delivery of helicopters to...
Director for corporate and legal affairs | TVEL
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? In 2019, TVEL and the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission signed the...
Head of legal at South Ural | Magnit
Manager – legal and commercial | Idemitsu Australia Reseources
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? Muswellbrook Pumped Hydro: Project lead on the ongoing development of a...
| Norte Energia
Head of legal Germany | NIBC Bank Deutschland
Malte Bannenberg started his career as an associate in a small boutique law firm, before becoming part of the in-house team of a securitisation company eventually taking over from the...
Managing counsel | ConocoPhillips Norge
How would you advise in-house legal departments in the oil and gas sector to cope with the industry’s changes in the last five years? Over the last five years, the...
Vice president and general counsel | Norsk Hydro
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? The most important transaction I have been involved in lately was...
General Counsel | Powel
In what ways do you see the in-house legal role evolving in your region over the next few years? Trondheim hosts Norway’s university of technology and natural science (NTNU) and...
General counsel | Nord Pool
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? With effect from October 2018, Nord Pool completed an extensive group-internal...
Assistant general counsel, director of litigation | Scotiabank Chile
Alberto Vergara, assistant general counsel and director of litigation of Scotiabank Chile, began his current position in 2016 at BBVA Chile and has stayed in the role after Scotiabank purchased...
Chief counsel | Quiñenco
Formerly an associate professor of civil law at Universidad Católica de Chile, Rodrigo Hinzpeter Kirberg’s professional career has seen him specialise in corporate law, acquisitions, mergers, and financial matters. Hinzpeter...
Partner; head of the Latin America practice; Spanish practice group coordinator and member of the firm’s management committee | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Number of years practice: 33 Principal practice areas: Equity and debt capital markets, FCPA and anti-corruption, leveraged finance and lending, M&A Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English Throughout his...
Partner | Ropes & Gray
Number of years practice: 13 Principal practice areas: Anti-corruption/international risk, government investigations, litigation Bar admissions: Illinois, US Court of Appeals (Sixth Circuit) Languages spoken: English and Spanish A white-collar crime...
| REN (Redes Energéticas Nacionais)
Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN) owns two of Portugal’s main energy infrastructure networks – the National Electricity Transmission Grid (RNT) and the National Natural Gas Transportation Grid (RNTGN) – and is...
| Galp Energia
In addition to providing excellent business support to one of Portugal’s largest companies, Galp Energia’s legal department is also working to ‘change the way in-house lawyers are seen in Portugal’,...
| EDP - Energias de Portugal
With revenues of over €15bn, EDP is one of the largest providers of electricity in Europe and one of the most substantial businesses in Portugal. The EDP legal team was...
| Bergé y Cía
One of Spain’s most historic corporate groups, Bergé y Cía is a Spanish company comprised of diversified operations across 10 countries. Divided into legal, tax and corporate secretarial areas, the...
| REN - Redes Energéticas Nacionais
Portuguese energy sector company REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais, engages in the transmission of electricity and natural gas in Portugal through various subsidiaries. Supporting the activities, the legal team is...
| Galp Energia
Made up of more than 100 companies, Galp Energia is a Portuguese corporation engaged in activities such as renewable energy, natural gas supply, transport, petroleum products exploration and logistics and...
| Bergé y Compañía
Having almost 150 years of history, Bergé y Compañía is a leader in the automotive and logistics service sectors. With a team of more than 4,500 people and present in...
General counsel | Seattle Art Musuem/ Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Once ‘an amazingly valued and well thought of partner’ in private practice days, Bernel Goldberg has dedicated the past six years to working in the not-for-profit sector. Initially at Northwest...
Senior counsel | Apache
‘An outstanding lawyer’, Harvard graduate Sergio Garza is highly regarding within his field. He has been at global exploration and production company Apache since 2006. He previously worked at leading...
Executive vice-president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Qualcomm
Donald Rosenberg was the brains behind two new divisions of Qualcomm’s legal team, that have since ‘taken intellectual property protection to a new level’, observes Bill Urquhart of Quinn Emanuel...
Managing director and general counsel | The Carlyle Group
Jeffrey Ferguson is a fine example of someone whose career has grown in concert with the organization he works for. He first began working with Carlyle as outside counsel, then...
Senior vice-president and general counsel | Pentagon Federal Credit Union
Stephen Eisenberg’s philosophy is to ‘hit the ball down the middle of the highway’. As GC for the second largest credit union in the US, it’s a worthy mantra for...
| GAMA Energy
Before its establishment until 2002, GAMA Energy was a division under GAMA Holding without any actual organisational structure. It was 2008 when the company carried out it its first project...
Assistant general counsel, member of the regional management board | CSC
With over twenty years in CSC Germany, assistant general counsel Juergen Schminke is highly skilled in the legal and business aspects of IT, demonstrating significant experience in negotiations of large...
| Carlsberg
The Carlsberg legal team consists of two lawyers and one paralegal who are faced with complex global matters with internal and external stakeholders and tasked with sustaining the compliance agenda...
| Berenberg Bank
The Berenberg Bank legal team is led by general counsel Gianni Porpiglia, who created the legal department from the ground up in 2010. The complete team consists of six people...
Group General Counsel | Galenica Ltd.
Oliver Kronenberg set up the legal department at Vifor Pharma, a company of the Galenica Group, in 2008 when he joined as general counsel and chief of staff. His first...
Head of Legal | Exclases Holdings Ltd. (distributor of AgustaWestland Helicopters)
Participating in the sale of AgustaWestland helicopters in Russia and CIS has been extremely rewarding for Sergey Potanin, head of legal at Exclases Holdings. ‘Working with the most important and demanding...
Chief Legal Officer | Northern Capital Gateway LLC
Starting out as an in-house lawyer straight after graduating with his law degree in 1995, Sergey Krylov has grown to become a highly trusted professional with an outstanding reputation. He...
International Legal Counsel | Proxima Capital Group
Prior to starting his in-house career at NVision Group in 2013, Sergey Dmitriev has gathered around ten years of professional experience working for leading law firms across Germany and Russia....
Senior lawyer and head of M&A | NPRO Ural LLC
As head of legal and M&A, Sergey Baksheev manages 12 legal employees across two separate plants at NPRO Ural, one of Russia’s leading mining businesses. Centralising the activities of legal...
| Inkia Energy
The legal team is led by group general counsel Gino Sangalli, who with his extensive in-house experience has led the team to work on a plethora of landmark activities and...
| Solör Bioenergi Holding
The legal department of Solör Bioenergi Holding, a bio-energy provider, has made a significant mark on the company’s operation despite only recently being created. Formed along with the joining of...
| Kongsberg Gruppen
Christian Karde leads the legal department at Kongsberg Gruppen, a global leader in the provision of high-end technology systems and solutions to clients in the oil and gas, merchant marine,...
| Carlsberg Breweries
Carlsberg Breweries, the world’s fourth largest brewery group, is supported by an in-house legal team that is described by nominators as ‘progressive and competent’. The team is led by Ulrik...
| Amec Foster Wheeler Energia
Amec Foster Wheeler Energia is the Finnish arm of British multinational company Amec Foster Wheeler, operating in the design, manufacture and installation of steam boilers and other equipment for the...
General counsel | ASSA ABLOY AB
Since being appointed as the first in-house counsel of the ASSA ABLOY Group, a market leading electromechanical security provider in 2004, Jacob Wahlberg now heads a team of eight lawyers...
Head of Legal, Sweden | Modern Times Group MTG AB
Recognised for her expertise in strategy and delivering first class work, Christine Strindberg is a ‘deal closer’ and plays a key role in the outcome of important negotiations for Modern...
Senior vice president and general counsel | Volvo Car Corporation
Maria Hemberg began her legal career in 1988 as a trainee associate at law firm, Mannheimer Swartling. After a brief period as a law clerk at the District Court of...
Head of intellectual property – legal | Nilfisk A/S
Nilfisk, dealing in innovative commercial cleaning products, has sales entities in 45 countries, dealers in over 70 countries and manufacturing facilities in seven countries, so the need for in-house counsel...
General counsel | Novamedia Sverige AB
Anna Bülow Zetterberg joined Novamedia Sverige AB in September 2012 having worked as an associate at law firms, Cederquist and Lindahl. Whilst at Lindalh, Bülow Zetterberg got a taste of...
General counsel | Gdf Suez E&P Norge A/S
Kjersti Bergsåker-Aspøy has been general counsel at GDF Suez E&P Norge A/S for four years. In that time she has focused on increasing the formal visibility of the legal department...
General counsel and head of market surveillance | Nord Pool Spot A/S
Camilla Berg has been general counsel at Nord Pool Spot A/S since 2009, being responsible for all legal matters, regulatory compliance and overseeing the market surveillance department, which focuses on...
| Kuwait Energy
Kuwait Energy, a company prominent in the MENA region and experts in oil and gas exploration, appraisal, development and production of hydrocarbons, has a strong legal team led by group...
| First Energy Bank
With a number of Gulf States now looking to develop their clean energy portfolios, the opportunities for investment in renewables are growing rapidly. Since it was founded in 2008, Bahrain-based...
General counsel and government affairs director (Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean) | Nokia
Federico Vergara originally joined Alcatel-Lucent México, a global telecommunications company in 1996 as a deputy general counsel. Since being appointed as the company’s general counsel for Mexico, Central America and...
General counsel (Argentina) | Banco Itaú
Sergio Ricardo Salmi has over 15 years’ in-house experience in the Argentine finance sector, initially at Consolidar, BBVA’s insurance division; and since 2010, as general counsel at Banco Itaú’s Argentine...
general counsel | Fendi
Currently general counsel for Fendi, part of the LVMH group, Sergio Marini has provided legal advice to the luxury goods company for the past one and a half years. An...
group head of legal affairs | Assicurazioni Generali
Leading a 15-strong team of legal and non-legal professionals, Stefania Bergamo has spent her three years at the flagship insurance company having joined in 2010. With previous experience in an...
| Topaz Energy
The relatively small legal team at Topaz Energy, one of Ireland’s leading fuel and convenience brands, is comprised of two lawyers and one non-lawyer. Recently, the team has had particular...
| Bord Gáis Energy
Representing one of the leading energy suppliers in Ireland, Bord Gáis Energy’s legal team is heavily involved in all material decision making for the company, providing innovative suggestions that allow...
| Airsynergy
Airsynergy, a renewable energy product development and licensing company, has a compact legal team of two solicitors and one legal executive, overseeing a wide remit including regulatory changes, intellectual property...
General Counsel | Greenstar Recycling
With almost 25 years’ in-house experience, Caroline Bergin has been involved in some of the nation’s most significant infrastructure transactions. Over four years in her previous role as NTR’s general...
Senior legal counsel | Google
Flor Grinberg started working at Google in April 2010 as the first commercial legal counsel for Spain and Portugal. Currently, as senior legal counsel, she supports a wide range of...
General counsel | Axel Springer
Axel Springer publishes, among others, newspapers Bild and Die Welt and has subsidiaries in France, Spain, Switzerland and Russia. The company is increasingly directing its attention to digital business and...
Director legal investment banking | UBS Deutschland
At UBS Investmentbank, Holger Hirschberg is in charge of the bank’s corporate finance business, particularly providing legal advice in IPOs, capital increases, mergers and take overs. His role continuously exposes...
General counsel and chief compliance officer | STYROLUTION
Styrolution is a global supplier of styrene plastics and a BASF and INEOS joint venture with a turnover of €5.8bn and over 3,000 employees worldwide. Not surprising, Anke Frankenberger’s team...
Vice president patents | Fresenius Medical Care
Joerg Dreyhsig is vice president for patents for medical instruments company Fresenius Medical Care, which has a turnover of $14bn and has 86,000 employees. Dreyhsig focuses on the areas of...
General counsel | NORMA Group
Ina Berg-Winters had to face one of her biggest challenges upon her arrival at NORMA: setting up a legal department from scratch. ‘Prior to me joining, all legal matters that...
| ManpowerGroup France
The French arm of ManpowerGroup represents a quarter of the multinational human resources consulting group’s total global operations. Since Manpower opened its first France-based offices in 1957, the company has...
senior vice president, general counsel M&A and strategic purchasing | Gemalto
Marc Bergmann has offered his services to the in-house part of the legal sector for 25 years, with both international and regional expertise across the technology and energy sectors. He...
general counsel exploration and production | Total
‘Among the number of responsibilities I have had to cope with, in my career in and outside the legal function, the most exciting and rewarding of all has certainly been...
| Terna Energy
The Terna Energy legal team consists of four lawyers, the most senior of whom is Dimitra Hatziarseniou who heads the legal department. In chronological order of joining the group, the...
| Seanergy Maritime Holdings
Seanergy Maritime Holdings is a Marshall Islands corporation with its executive offices located in Athens. The company is engaged in the transportation of dry bulk cargoes through the ownership and...
| ERGO Hellas
Anastasios Tamamidis, director of legal services, leads the in-house legal team at ERGO, one of Greece’s most important insurance companies. He is a strong legal professional with a PhD focused...
| GLOBAL ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
As a leading Colombian developer and seller of hydrocarbon products, Global Energy Development has been exposed to declining oil and gas prices globally. Nevertheless, the company management has successfully implemented...
| Empresa de Energía de Bogotá
Empresa de Energía de Bogotá is the second largest company in the transmission of energy in Colombia, with a market share of 12.5%. The organisation prides itself on the sustainable...
| Canacol Energy
Based in Canada, Canacol Energy has made a significant impact on the growing Colombian Energy market in a short space of time, having only launched in the country less than...
Deputy legal counsel and head of litigation and regulation | BBVA Chile
The Spanish-headquartered global banking company BBVA began operating in Chile in 1998 by acquiring BHIF Bank and AFP Provida the following year. At around the same time Alberto Vergara was...
| Suncor Energy
Suncor Energy is a pioneering integrated energy company based in Calgary, Alberta, and was one of the first companies to operate in the Athabasca oil sands from 1967. With product...
| STEP Energy Services
The highly experienced in-house legal team at STEP Energy Services is comprised of three experienced counsel; general counsel Joshua Kane, senior legal counsel Tereza Fonda and US legal counsel Nicole...
| Packers Plus Energy Services
Tracey Beaudoin, general counsel and corporate secretary, leads a small but highly effective team with two very senior lawyers and a seven year PQE lawyer, two support staff and one...
| Just Energy
The in-house legal team at Just Energy is led by executive vice president and general counsel Jonah Davids, and consists of top quality lawyers specialising in the financial, environmental and...
| Husky Energy
The in-house legal team at Husky Energy has been led by senior vice president, general counsel and secretary James Girgulis QC since 2012, and has thrived under his leadership. The...
| Cenovus Energy
Calgary-based Cenovus Energy has an expert in-house legal team of specialist practitioners in the oil and gas industry and is led by Al Reid, executive vice-president for stakeholder engagement, safety,...
| Alberta Energy Regulator
The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is the single regulatory agency for energy development in the province of Alberta, being responsible for ensuring regulation of the production, exploration and development of...
Vice president and general counsel | Aimia
As an award winning vice president and general counsel, Deborah Greenberg has shown exceptional dedication to her team and has led a number of strategic projects during her time at...
| Rio Energy
Committed to sustainable energy, Rio Energy works on the development, construction and operation of renewable energy power plants with the highest quality standards, creating both social and economic value for...
| Norte Energia
Norte Energia is responsible for the construction and operation of the giant Belo Monte Dam complex, the fourth-largest hydroelectric dam complex in the world by installed capacity and a strategically...
| CPFL Energia
CPFL Energia, Brazil’s largest private electric utility company, serves residential, industrial and commercial customers around the country through operating wind, biomass-powered thermal, solar, and hydroelectric power plants. The company boasts...
Executive vice president legal and corporate affairs | Johnson & Johnson
Assuming his current position in 2012, after several stints in-house at large companies in Brazil, Sergio Pompilio is executive vice president for legal and corporate affairs at Johnson & Johnson’s...
Chief operations officer - Property and Asset Finance | Wingate
Ari Bergman is the current chief operations officer for the property and asset finance division of Wingate, he took up the Melbourne-based post in October 2015 after 11 years role...
| Origin Energy
Comprised of 25 lawyers and five support staff, the legal team at Australian energy company Origin Energy is led by general counsel Andre Clarke. Internally the team recently designed, built...
| Meridian Energy
Generating the largest proportion of New Zealand’s electricity, Meridian Energy is one of the country’s leading electricity retailers and operates from its headquarters in Wellington. Heading Meridian Energy’s legal function...
| EnergyAustralia
The EnergyAustralia legal and governance team led by general counsel and corporate secretary Chris Ryan comprises of 31 employees, of which 11 are practicing lawyers. It would not be an...
| AGL Energy
AGL Energy is an integrated Australian energy company with operating business units involved in both the generation and retailing of electricity for residential and commercial use. The company operates power...
General counsel | Banco Itaú Argentina
Sergio Ricardo Salmi has spent nearly 20 years working in-house in the Argentine finance sector and has served as general counsel at Banco Itaú Argentina, a subsidiary of the Brazilian...
General counsel | Grupo Supervielle
Grupo Supervielle is a national private capital financial group whose origins date back to 1887. The group is mainly focused on rendering banking and financial services targeted to both individuals...
General counsel | M7 Group
With extensive experience providing legal support and advice in Europe, including Russia and CIS countries, Serge Debrye has gained a reputation for being a business orientated and result driven team...
Group general counsel | Vifor Pharma
Dr Oliver P. Kronenberg has over 20 years’ experience both in law firms and in-house, of which 13 years has been with people management responsibility. He amasses 14 years in...
| Kongsberg Gruppen
In one of the most notable transactions in the sector in the past year, in July 2018 it was announced that Kongsberg Gruppen has entered into agreement to acquire Rolls-Royce’s...
| TrønderEnergi
Multinational Total E&P Norge is an oil and gas exploration and production company based on the Norwegian continental shelf. It holds exploration licenses in the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea,...
| Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW)
A highly respected legal function operating in the unique German Landesbank sector of state-owned banks, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW)’s legal team is led by head of legal Oliver Lier and has...
| HeidelbergCement
HeidelbergCement is one of the world’s largest building materials companies; with the takeover of Italian cement producer Italcementi, HeidelbergCement became the number one in aggregates production, number two in cement...
| Rusatom Energy International
Rusatom Energy International’s award-winning legal department, headed by Konstantin Kryzewskih, is able to flawlessly assist the company in managing the legal affairs of a number of projects regarding the construction...
| Atomenergomash
Atomenergomash is the machines construction division of the Russian state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom that manufactures equipment for nuclear and thermal power plants as well as the shipbuilding, gas and...
| Bloomberg
Bloomberg is a global giant of financial information, data and news with a large operation of research, technology and analysis relied upon around the world for up to the minute...
| Schlumberger
Schlumberger has a long history in Colombia and across Latin America, with its first oil field electric log performed by the company at the Tabatinga field in 1938. The company...
| United Energy Group
United Energy Group (UEG) is a multi-national Beijing headquartered oil and gas company expanding rapidly in the Middle Eastern energy market through its operations in Pakistan. The stellar in-house legal...
| INDUSTRIALIZATION & ENERGY SERVICES COMPANY (TAQA)
Working under the direction of general counsel Ulf Bathke, a fully bilingual Arabic-English lawyer who holds a PhD in Islamic law and is admitted to the bar of England and...
| ALCAZAR ENERGY
The legal department of the renewable energy business Alcazar Energy comprises four professionals working across the company’s offices in Turkey, Jordan and Dubai. The team is currently led by general...
| adidas emerging markets
Led by GC Powerlist 2017-featured lawyer Mona Hussein, the adidas in-house legal team in Dubai successfully deals with high volume of work over multiple jurisdictions within the MENA region. Despite...
| NextEnergy Capital
The legal team of NextEnergy Capital is composed of two lawyers, head of legal Michele Catanzaro and senior legal Claudia Calderini, as well as one trainee. Catanzaro possesses extensive experience...
| Oryx Energies
Oryx Energies sources, supplies, stores and distributes oil and gas products needed by consumers, businesses and maritime operations across sub-Saharan Africa. The Swiss legal team is led by chief legal...
Head of group legal affairs and general counsel, GBL and international | Assicurazioni Generali
Stefania Bergamo serves as the head of group legal affairs and general counsel for Assicurazioni Generali’s global business lines (GBL) and international business unit. Leading a 15-strong team of legal...
| Bloomberg
Bloomberg is the world’s primary distributor of financial data and a top business news provider of the 21st century. Bloomberg’s legal department advises the business on a broad range of...
| Schlumberger
Schlumberger’s expert legal team was nominated by sources in both the in-house and private practice legal worlds, evincing widespread knowledge of its high standards. Senior legal team members are part...
| Bord Gáis Energy
Owned by the Centrica group, Bord Gáis Energy (Bord) is an industry-leading Irish natural gas and electricity company and supplier of energy services operating in the Republic of Ireland since...
Legal director | Klarna Bank
Morgan Lundberg began his in-house career at IT company Oracle in 2007 after a decade of competition legal work in the public sector, where he mainly focused on M&A and...
General counsel and senior vice president group legal | Volvo Car Group
‘The compliance and ethics team have, with their continuous efforts, made the organisation focus even more on how business is conducted, and conducting business in a responsible manner is key...
Executive vice president group legal and compliance and general counsel | Volvo Group
Sofia Frändberg is executive vice president of group legal and compliance and general counsel of Volvo Group, Sweden’s iconic automotive, aeronautical and nautical vehicle, engine, and other transportation manufacturer. Her...
General counsel | Novamedia Sverige
Since 2012, Anna Bülow Zetterberg has been general counsel of Novamedia Sverige, a leading media and publishing company based in Sweden with a large European reach. It specialises in charity...
Legal director Nordic-Baltic | AstraZeneca
Jesper Bergkvist is the legal director for AstraZeneca’s Nordic and Baltic regions, and is the most senior lawyer in the team taking charge of 10 employees in total. As an...
General counsel and senior vice president, legal and sustainability | SKF
Carina Bergfelt is a long-serving legal professional for leading global technology provider SKF, having been with the firm since 1990. Founded in 1907, SKF focuses on the development of new...
| Guatemala
Offering electricity distribution services throughout Guatemala, Energuate provide services for approximately 1.6 million households in the country and distributes energy across an approximately 100,000 km2 area in Guatemala. The legal...
| Söderberg & Partners
A six-person function made up of five lawyers and a paralegal, the legal department of Swedish financial services firm Söderberg & Partners is described by its head of legal Julia...
| ERG Power Generation
ERG Power Generation is a manufacturer of electricity from clean, renewable sustainable sources, with a history spanning over eighty years. In the recent past the company has completed a radical...
| Ansaldo Energia
Supporting Ansaldo Energia, Italy’s largest supplier, installer and service provider for power generation plants and components, the legal team of 28 lawyers and five paralegals is dispersed in Italy, France,...
Legal director, litigation, labour and employment – Latin America | Uber
A lawyer with more than 15 years of experience, Sergio Romero has vast expertise in civil, commercial, financial and labour litigation, as well as unrivalled skills in structuring business and...
Legal, compliance and quality director (BACIS) | Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk’s legal, compliance and quality director in Russia and CIS, Sergey Viktorov established the regional legal department from the ground up, as the former legal team had experienced a...
Legal director | Lenta
Sergey Prokofiev is the current legal director for Lenta, one of the largest retail chains in Russia, having joined the company in 2012 with the objective to oversee all aspects...
Head of legal department | Exclases Holdings
Directly involved in formulating the strategy of Exclases Holdings, a distributor of Leonardo (formerly AgustaWestland) helicopters in Russia, Sergey Potanin has recently made his mark on the company by implementing...
Legal and corporate affairs director | Rusagro
Rusagro is the largest vertically integrated agriculture industry holding company in Russia and occupies the leading positions in sugar, pork, crop, oil and fats production in the country. Headquartered in...
Managing counsel | ConocoPhillips Norge
In 1969, Phillips Petroleum Company discovered oil in the Ekofisk field, part of the Norwegian Shelf and one of the most important oil fields in the North Sea to this...
Head of legal | Bashspirt
Distinguished head of legal of Bashspirt Sergey Isanov has over 16 years of experience in advising in the food manufacturing, wholesale and retail sector at one of the largest Russian...
General counsel | NorgesGruppen
NorgesGruppen’s history goes back over 150 years and the company today is one of the largest players in the Norwegian grocery retail market earning close to $10bn in 2016. Ragna...
General counsel | Powel
Greta Kelwing Haugberg has served as legal counsel for a number of globally respected companies, giving her the opportunity to work on a number of well-known transactions. She started her...
Vice president and general counsel | Sapa Extrusion Europe
Daniel Lindebjerg Haaland landed his first legal position at law firm Selmer, working on high yield bonds, banking, corporate, and security law matters. This led Haaland onto a secondment as...
General counsel | EVRY
Formed in 2010 by a merger of Norway’s two biggest IT companies, EVRY is today one of the leading IT companies in the Nordic region. With his vast experience in...
Legal director | ABB
Kjerstin Bull-Berg has been with the Norwegian arm of Swiss company ABB, which manufactures and supplies power and automation technology products to utility and industrial customers, for over 21 years....
Chief legal officer | Norwegian Air Shuttle
Frode Berg is the chief legal officer for Norwegian Air Shuttle, Europe’s third largest low-cost airline and the sixth largest lowcost airline in the world. Berg and the rest of...
General counsel | Nord Pool
Camilla Berg continues to impress in her role as general counsel for Nord Pool, Europe’s leading power market that offers a range of services across fifteen European countries. Her involvement...
Head of legal and compliance | Volkswagen Doğuş Finansman
Mehmet Tekergül is the most senior lawyer at the Volkswagen Doğuş Finansman (vdf) Group Companies, which include a number of business areas including Finance, vdf Insurance, vdf Factoring, vdf Operational...
| InterGlobe Aviation (IndiGo)
Leading a team of 16 lawyers and two non-legal support staff, Priya Mehra Dewan is the general counsel of low cost Indian airline InterGlobe Aviation (IndiGo), which occupies a dominant...
| Ostro Energy
An Indian wind energy business with ambitious plans with regards to its renewable energy projects, Ostro Energy is currently ‘working closely with most of the prominent wind power producers in...
Head of group legal and compliance officer | Abfall Service
Abfall Service is Austria’s leading waste management company, providing broad general waste solutions for the municipal, industrial, commercial and retail sectors as well as for domestic households. In the capacity...
Deputy CEO, director of legal and corporate affairs | Naftna Industrija Srbije
As deputy CEO, director of legal and corporate affairs for Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS), a Serbian multinational oil and gas company, Fominykh has been involved covering all legal matters relating...
Head of legal and compliance | E.ON
Taking charge of a legal department that contains approximately 60 lawyers, the managerial and people skills of E.ON’s head of legal and compliance, Guntram Würzberg, are unquestionable. Equally as impressive...
General counsel | Axel Springer SE
Since its founding in 1946, Axel Springer SE has grown into Europe’s leading digital publisher and currently employs over 15,000 people in more than 40 countries earning over €3bn in...
Head of legal region Europe south and head of EMEA hub legal on-site | The Linde Group
With qualifications in a Germany, France and the UK and a highly successful private practice career at such firms as Ashurst, Simmons & Simmons and Baker McKenzie under his belt...
| Engie Energía Chile
Engie Energía Chile, part of GDF Suez Group, is the largest electric company in Chile’s Great North Interconnected System (SING) – its northern region, specialised in the production and transport...
| Andes Mining & Energy
Since beginning operations in 2008 by establishing a 600MW combined cycle gas power plant in Peru, Andes Mining & Energy has expanded dramatically across the region, currently operating over 4000MW...
| Conergy
Downstream solar energy specialist Conergy’s in-house legal team has made a major contribution to the success of the company’s endeavours since beginning work in earnest in 2016; prior to this,...
| Schlumberger
The Argentina based legal team of multinational company Schlumberger was described by nominators as having ‘effective collaboration and open communication’, ensuring that the Buenos Aires based team is at the...
| Pan American Energy
A subsidiary company owned 60% by BP and 40% by Bridas Corporation, Pan American Energy operates across Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay, and is the second largest producer of...
| Pampa Energia
Led by Mariano Romero de Haz, the legal team in Pampa Energía’s downstream and petrochemical business is known for its practical expertise and technical knowledge. Romero de Haz himself is...
| ManpowerGroup Argentina
With over 50 years of local experience, US Fortune 500 company ManpowerGroup develops innovative human capital solutions for more than 2,000 clients in Argentina. The legal team at the Group’s...
Senior vice president, general counsel M&A | Gemalto
Marc Bergmann is adept at working on major international transactions with partners all over the world, something which has helped him develop good negotiation techniques that have been recognised and...
| ShoreLine Energy International Limited
Shoreline Energy International maintains a diversified portfolio in telecoms, energy and power, investment and trading, and infrastructure and engineering. The business is most known for its series of oil field...
| Seven Energy International
With a focus on the Nigerian market and extensive operations in the Niger Delta, integrated oil and gas infrastructure company Seven Energy has found itself having to negotiate a number...
Partner | Kirkland & Ellis
Number of years practice: 14 Law school attended: Escuela Libre de Derecho (JD – Mexico), Harvard Law School (LLM – US) Languages spoken: English (native) and Spanish (native) Principal practice...
Partner | Sidley Austin
Number of years practice: 19 Law school attended: Yale Law School Languages spoken: English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Principal practice areas: M&A, Project Development, Project Finance Admissions: Texas Working...
Partner | Sullivan & Cromwell
Number of years practice: 32 Law school attended: Harvard Law School Languages spoken: English, Portuguese and Spanish Principal practice areas: Equity and Debt Capital Markets, FCPA and Anti-Corruption, Leveraged Finance...
Partner | Ropes & Gray
Number of years practice: 12 Law school attended: Georgetown University Law Center Languages spoken: English and Spanish (conversational) Principal practice areas: Anti-Corruption/International Risk, Government Investigations, Litigation Admissions: Illinois and US...
The corporate and legal affairs (CLA) department of ERG is composed of 20 members under the responsibility of general counsel Andrea Navarra. The team is divided into three sections: legal affairs – thermos, hydro, sun and energy management led by head of legal Raffaella Romei; legal affairs – wind and business development headed by head of legal Moreno Bisio; and corporate affairs and compliance headed by head of corporate affairs Marco Scollo. Most recently the legal team has increased the number of lawyers and opened internal legal offices in other European countries, as opposed to having the CLA department support the entire European business from Italy only. ‘This was due to the significant growth – essentially abroad – of our Group activities. As a consequence, new colleagues – qualified in France, Scotland, England and Wales – were recruited to work in our French and UK offices’, explains Navarra. The CLA department has played a substantial role in all extraordinary transactions carried out by ERG Group over the last 18 months. Amongst these projects, the sale of oil downstream and refinery assets in Italy belonging to Total ERG joint venture stands out as a noteworthy project, as well as the project of photovoltaic plaints in Italy and purchase of wind plants and projects in France, Germany, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Poland which has an overall value well above €1.5bn. In addition, the CLA department has been involved in the repowering and re-blading of ERG Italian wind assets, which is an essential part of ERG industrial plan 2018-2022.