About

Pascal Duclos was brought in to set up Dufry’s legal function from its conception and in efforts spanning over ten years has created a department truly global in scope. His team support the business by overseeing operations that require the use of 15 different languages spanning five continents. Internationalisation is a theme running through Pascal’s career, whose highlights include his work presiding over an international merger of Swiss and Brazilian public companies and making a key direct contribution to turning a medium-sized sales private equity company into a large publicly listed company, which is now the clear leader in its market. One method Pascal uses to improve overall results for the company is by facilitating clear communication between the legal team and their business counterparts, in doing so he aims to be ‘a strategic player in the development of the business’. He also enjoys ‘working with some of the brightest external counsels of the planet and learning every day from them’.