About

As part of Switzerland’s largest insurance group, Christophe heads a team that is focussed on shared services and technology services for the entire business. The role was created when he was hired in order to build up a team from scratch to pull off specialist deals on behalf of the organisation. Christophe defines his focus as ‘within the realms of technology, media and communications law with an additional strong focus on large outside transactions’. Navigating the international and cross-cultural landscape Zurich operates in is a constant source of interest for Christophe. He also needs to be prepared for the resistance that ‘driving change’ can create within such a large, multi-area organisation. Part of this, he states, is about ‘reinventing myself all the time’, which is reflected in the importance he places on ‘striving for continuous improvement’. Christophe seeks an approach closely-tied to introspection, he feels like a solid legal function ‘always seeks to ask questions about the things we have done in a transaction, like ‘is there a better we could have done it?’’ and has no room for habits or using ‘we always did it this way’ as justification. His does all of this to ensure the company’s lawyers are addressing the concerns of stakeholders in the optimal way.