Nordics Teams 2016
| ECCO
ECCO
| ECCO
Executive director - head of legal Colombia | JP Morgan
| Adecco Group
Adecco Group, registered and headquartered in Zurich, is known as the largest staffing firm in the world and is a Forbes Global 500 company. The Adecco Group legal team are...
Head of legal | Molinos Rio de la Plata
‘An excellent in-house lawyer who focuses rapidly on the key issues and is always an aid to her external counsel’, Ana Carina Turco is head of legal at Perez Companc...
Chief legal officer | Adecoagro
Adecoagro’s chief legal officer for Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, Emilio Gnecco has been a member of the company’s senior management since 2005. Formerly in private practice at The Legal 500...
group legal director | Gruppo Stilo
When Francesca Secco joined Gruppo Stilo, the investment holding company with a specialisation in commercial and residential property, in 2007, the company’s legal department was non-existent. Her first duty was...
Legal affairs manager | Molinos Río de la Plata
Molinos Río de la Plata is Argentina’s largest branded food-products company and is a subsidiary of the Perez Companc Family Group. Heading up the legal and compliance function is Ana...
| Adecco Group
Adecco Group is a leading human resources provider of temporary staffing, permanent placement and talent development, and a Fortune Global 500 company. The legal team has supported the company in...
| The Adecco Group
With responsibility for all Adecco Group companies in France and responsible for all areas of law except tax, which is monitored by the finance department, the Adecco Group’s legal team...
Legal counsel | J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan in Colombia has a local presence through J.P. Morgan Corporación Financiera, a credit institution established in the country since 2006, supervised by the Financial Superintendence of Colombia and...
| Adecco Group
Over the past two years Adecco Group’s compact seven-person legal team in Chile has been fundamental to the success of the wider company, due to its ongoing involvement in virtually...
ECCO is a Danish retailer with a long tradition of footwear and leather manufacturing, with a global presence and 2015 turnover that exceeded €1.2bn. Their in-house legal team has been responsible for a number of key changes over the past year and has enacted innovative processes improvements aimed at increasing the company’s internal support functions. To this end, they have entered established a “business partner” concept, whereby legal staff are attached to specific areas of the business, allowing a specialist knowledge base to develop. This synergy between legal and business matters has been further cemented by increasing interaction between the legal department and the management board; the legal team has presented to management how they will underpin and support the strategic direction of the company into the future. Further innovations by the legal team have been in the area of IT support functions; they have introduced a new e-learning tool and contract management system. ECCO’s legal team has also developed a comprehensive system that assists them in the important part they have to play in the company’s risk management initiatives, which they regularly update the board about. Peter Schøtt Knudsen, vice president, general counsel and head of legal at ECCO, advises that they are now a ‘more compliance driven team’, which has risen to company challenges by presenting a ‘solid commercial mitigation plan, which is well anchored legally’.
General counsel and integrity and compliance officer Asia Pacific
Adecco Group
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General counsel and integrity and compliance officer Asia Pacific
Adecco Group
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