Middle East Teams 2016
| OSN
OSN
Senior lawyer | ANZ
Legal director | INSS
Legal director | INSS
Legal director | Coop Norge
In what ways do you see the in-house legal role evolving in your region over the next few years? The in-house lawyer must constantly demonstrate value for the company and...
Head of Legal & Insurances / Compliance Officer | Hiatchi Zosen Inova AG
Richard Rosner prides himself on his recent involvement in successfully completing completion of a complex corporate restructuring procedure and setting up a legal compliance program for the company and its...
Regional general counsel, Americas | Boart Longyear Canada
A highly ambitious and target-oriented lawyer, Robert Closner is widely recognised in Canadian in-house legal circles for his strong work ethic. Following his graduation with a J.D. qualification from Queen’s...
One of the leading broadcast companies in the Middle East, OSN broadcasts to 24 countries across the MENA region, providing 65 high definition television channels with a large volume of...
Legal director | Coop Norge
The Norwegian cooperative with over 1.3 million members is also Norway’s second largest daily retailer and operates approximately 1,100 grocery stores in the country. Knut B. Kjøsnes worked in the...
Legal director | INSS
Elena Bosnidou has enjoyed a number of senior in-house roles in Greece over the course of her legal career which spans over two decades. Between 1997 and 2002 she was...
With around 150 channels and distribution rights in over 20 countries, UAE-based Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) is the leading pay television network in the Middle East and North Africa. A legal team of 14 is charged with handling the range of regulatory, contractual and contentious issues that come with this wide geographical coverage. With the 2012 launch of online-TV platform OSN Play and OSN on Demand, the region’s first video on demand (VOD) service, the legal challenges of protecting intellectual property (IP) in a notoriously opaque region increased significantly for the company. The team has won particular praise for its efforts to support the expansion of these services by combatting piracy and counterfeiting. According to nominators, collaboration between OSN’s skilled anti-piracy and contract lawyers and content rights owners has helped the company to retain the regional distribution rights for some of the most popular international TV licences. The team has also had to deal with changes in senior leadership recently when the experienced and hugely respected Helena Samaha stepped down after five years leading the company’s legal function. Following Samaha’s departure, OSN’s GC and company secretary Sophie Moloney was promoted to the position of chief legal officer in August 2016 and will continue to oversee the legal team’s best-in-class regional IP strategy.
