Middle East Teams 2016
| Mars
Mars
Group general counsel | Smurfit Kappa Group
Senior vice president, general counsel | Core5 Industrial Partners
General counsel and company secretary | Aurora Healthcare
Legal and insurance manager - compliance officer CCSouth | BASF
General counsel | Smurfit Kappa
Vice president legal, international and Japan | AstraZeneca
Chief legal officer | Baker Hughes
| Marsh
Marsh is the worldwide leading brokerage company. Daniela Frangioni is the head of legal and compliance for Brazil and South America. She handles all day-to-day legal aspects of the brokerage...
Executive vice president and general counsel | Scatec
In what ways do you see the in-house legal role evolving over the next few years? Firstly, in-house teams are expanding, and this is not merely an effort to reduce...
Group general counsel | Smurfit Kappa
As general counsel of Smurfit Kappa since 1999, Brian Marshall has made a name for himself as a legal and business advisor who combines a deep knowledge of the paper...
Retail and Consumer Products | Thomas Cook
Team size: 40 Major law firms used: Allen & Overy, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, Latham & Watkins, Lighthouse Law, Slaughter and May When profiled for last year’s GC Powerlist,...
Head of Legal | Vitol SA
Jonathan Marsh has made some key changes to Vitol since joining in 2010, including centralising the legal procurement process and revamping the terms of the business. He has reorganised the...
| Marsh Rehder
The Marsh Rehder legal department is structured in a manner that primarily takes into consideration the skills and competencies of staff members; not only including legal and regulatory knowledge but...
Executive vice president and general counsel | Scatec Solar
Snorre Valdimarsson created the legal department at Scatec Solar from scratch, however he was the only in-house lawyer for the first few years. Since then ‘the idea has been to...
| Marsh & McLennan Companies
The legal team at Mexico of Marsh & McLennan Companies (Marsh) is recognised for the scope of its legal skill and commercial acumen. It has facilitated the announced merger between...
Group General Counsel | Smurfit Kappa
With over 20 years’ experience at Smurfit Kappa, and 15 as its GC, sources praise Brian Marshall’s deep commercial understanding and his close integration with the business. A member of...
| Marsh
Worldwide leading brokerage company Marsh is a multinational corporation and is the leading company of its kind if Brazil, and is serviced by a legal team led by Daniela Frangioni...
Vice president and general counsel | APM Terminals
Susanne Marston is an experienced legal counsel who fully understands the business, partnering with executive leaders to accelerate global business goals and how to build a strong team with a...
| Marsa Maroc
Marsa Maroc is the top Moroccan logistics company operating port terminals in North Africa. It operates nine terminals and oversaw the passage of 36.6 million tonnes of freight in 2016....
Chief legal officer | Belize Bank
Jacqueline Marshalleck serves as the chief legal officer for Belize Bank, the oldest and largest bank in Belize, with a network of 13 branches that covers the entire country. Marshalleck...
| Audemars Piguet
Group chief legal officer, Nicolas Burgener, leads the legal function at luxury watch-making manufacturer Audemars Piguet. The team is made up of eight lawyers and one data protection officer whose...
Executive vice president and general counsel | Scatec
Starting his career at Norwegian law firm Selmer in 2005 Snorre Valdimarsson focused mainly on finance, debt capital markets and M&A. Part of his work involved advising the former electric...
Led by regional general counsel Hassan Basil Hassan, the Mars legal team covering Middle East, Turkey, Africa, India, Russia and CIS is responsible for monitoring some of the most difficult emerging markets in the world. Hassan, who prior to becoming a lawyer worked as a senior executive, is acutely aware that the best ways of mitigating these risks are well known outside the legal profession, something he has worked hard to instil in his regional team. By focusing on embedding management practices of continuous evaluation and cost controls into the legal function, Hassan has built up one of the most respected legal teams in the wider Middle East region. The Mars legal team has become one of the leading business support functions in the region and was widely praised by nominators as a standout legal team.
