Mexico Teams 2017
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Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? Our CELA – corporate, external and legal affairs team in Brazil...
The highly qualified mid-to-large-sized Microsoft legal team responsible for Latin America is headquartered in Miami and successfully deals with a wide range of issues of strategic importance to the company....
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Microsoft is known globally for developing cutting-edge hardware and software technologies for both consumers and businesses. The vast global legal team is often at the epicentre of debates on new...
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Microsoft’s corporate, external and legal affairs (CELA) team in Spain is formed by five lawyers and three non-lawyers, and is organised around three functions – legal affairs, government and policy...
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The Microsoft South legal team is led by the corporate, external and legal affairs lead south subsidiary, Hector Figari, who oversees all the legal and corporate affairs support for the...
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Microsoft’s Irish operation is fundamental to its global success. Starting its first operations in Ireland in 1985 by opening a small manufacturing facility employing just over 100 people, it now...
| Microsoft Hellas
The Microsoft Greece, Cyprus and Malta legal team comprises of a multi-skilled function, containing not just legal personnel but also government affairs personnel, and it collaborates closely with the philanthropies...
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Microsoft’s brand is known across the world, with a revenue of $85bn generated from its IT hardware and software solutions. Protecting Microsoft’s existing products across hundreds of countries, as well...
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The Microsoft legal team in Brazil deals with a large number of concurrent issues at any one time, and its in-house ranks are correspondingly filled with highly competent individuals who...
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In 2018 Microsoft Hong Kong entered a memorandum of understanding with The University of Hong Kong to create an AI research platform using mutual resources to accelerate scientific progress and...
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Microsoft has had a presence in China for more than 20 years, establishing itself in the market in 1992 with an office in Beijing. Today it has expanded its business...
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The Microsoft in-house legal team in the Middle East region came together less than two years ago as the role of the in-house team in the Gulf adapted to working...
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Microsoft’s corporate, external and legal affairs (CELA) department in Switzerland is led by director of legal affairs Jan Widmer and includes team members supporting different functions and locations such as...
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Rebecca Radloff has been senior attorney and head of legal at Microsoft Ireland in Dublin since 2016, with attorney experience at Microsoft since 2008 and previous private practice experience in...
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Microsoft’s corporate, external and legal affairs (CELA) department in Sweden is an integrated part of the wider Western Europe team. The Western Europe legal team is led by assistant general...
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Global technology company Microsoft is well established in Italy, and has recently opened a new headquarters in Milan that is expected to house 10,000 professionals and a further 5,000 students...
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The US-based multinational technology giant Microsoft has a significant presence across Latin America including Chile. Led by legal director and corporate affairs manager Alex Pesso Stoulman, the legal team at...
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Technology giant Microsoft is supported in Argentina by lawyers that have decades of experience between them and oversee a wide remit encompassing legal affairs, corporate and compliance issues pertaining to...
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As one of the most recognisable global names in the information technology sector, Microsoft Africa has been dedicated to enhancing computer literacy in Africa through various initiatives, helping millions of...
Since revolutionising the personal computer market with the launch of Windows operating system in the mid-1980s, Microsoft has been one of the world’s largest and most important companies. It has also managed impressive growth levels over the past decade, with net revenue increasing from $51bn to $85bn in the period 2007-2016. The company’s eleven-strong legal team for Mexico, led by Jorge J. Vega-Iracelay, is known to be a strong function that is able to attract some of the best talent in the market. Former Nokia commercial attorney Lorenza Luengo was recently added to their consumer business legal function in a move that shows they are able to attract top legal minds to their in-house ranks. Additional mention is given to the work of Rebeca Servin-Lewis, who has successfully closed a number of deals by deploying ‘very complex legal engineering, high work ethics and a facilitator attitude’. As a technology company, one would expect a forward thinking and progressive approach towards utilising legal technology, and this is indeed the case at Microsoft. In order to enable ‘a favourable IT policy… and shape the policy landscape by providing our company´s policy positions as well as relevant international best practices to policy makers’, the team has set up ‘a microsite which contains abundant policy papers, videos and information about pertinent policy issues, Microsoft´s policy positions, our philanthropy offerings and our technology solutions’, says Jorge J. Vega-Iracelay, assistant general counsel. This gives the legal team greater transparency, which in turn allows them to influence the regulatory framework that is decided upon by policy-makers. The team is encouraged to deploy ‘a “smart risk taking process” approach’, providing them with ‘a model and decision matrix to follow a structured process’ to achieve this in a controlled manner. Given their placement in the constantly shifting technology and software sector, the team is also encouraged to be ‘disruptive, creative and self-critical when planning strategies’, creating a team of independent thinkers who are willing to come up with creative solutions to existing challenges. Recently, the team took part in ‘a very complex negotiation with a Mexican multinational, with effects in multiple jurisdictions across 26 countries’. This deal, which ‘was only possible due to the participation of Microsoft’s diverse legal teams based in several jurisdictions acting as one’, encountered barriers to the closure of the deal based around data privacy issues, which were solved by ‘the proactive and direct involvement’ of the Mexican legal team. This, and other projects executed by the Microsoft legal team in Mexico, prove their ability to operate at the highest levels of legal business.
Corporate, external and legal affairs head - Central Europe
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