Switzerland Teams 2016
| SGS
SGS
| SGS
Swiss multinational SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company with more than 90,000 employees and over 2,000 offices and laboratories worldwide. The SGS legal team in...
| Grupo SGS España
SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company, recognised as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 97,000 employees, SGS operates a network of...
| SGS Colombia
The Colombian legal department of the world’s leading inspection, verification and certification company SGS Group was founded in 2012 as a consequence of its first major acquisition made in the...
Legal director Diana Daza Vallejos leads the in-house legal team of four lawyers, a contracts assistant and an administrative assistant at the Colombian division of SGS, one of the world’s...
The in-house legal team at SGS continues to impress through its high volume of important international M&A activity as well as general legal and commercial acumen. For example the team...
Headquartered in Geneva, SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. With more than 85,000 employees, SGS operates a network of more than 1,800 offices and laboratories around the world. General counsel and chief compliance officer Olivier Merkt, who joined SGS in 2001, has led the legal team through 10 complete acquisitions in the first semester of 2016, as many as over the course of the full year of 2015. Despite the regulatory hurdles, organisational barriers and complex nature of global supply chains, these acquisitions further expanded the group’s footprint into new markets and created a more diverse service offering in transportation, industrial, oil and gas, minerals, environment and retail. Combined, these companies have added €48m to the group’s revenue and €1m to the operating income in 2016, directly illustrating some of the value that the legal team has been able to add to the company. SGS was also awarded the gold recognition level from EcoVadis for its sustainability performance in 2016, a rating only given to suppliers and supply chains with the highest levels of sustainability.
