Switzerland Teams 2019
| Microsoft
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| Microsoft Ireland Operations
| Microsoft India
| Microsoft Brazil
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? Our CELA – corporate, external and legal affairs team in Brazil...
The highly qualified mid-to-large-sized Microsoft legal team responsible for Latin America is headquartered in Miami and successfully deals with a wide range of issues of strategic importance to the company....
| Microsoft Ibérica
Microsoft is known globally for developing cutting-edge hardware and software technologies for both consumers and businesses. The vast global legal team is often at the epicentre of debates on new...
| Microsoft Ibérica
Microsoft’s corporate, external and legal affairs (CELA) team in Spain is formed by five lawyers and three non-lawyers, and is organised around three functions – legal affairs, government and policy...
| Microsoft South
The Microsoft South legal team is led by the corporate, external and legal affairs lead south subsidiary, Hector Figari, who oversees all the legal and corporate affairs support for the...
| Microsoft
Since revolutionising the personal computer market with the launch of Windows operating system in the mid-1980s, Microsoft has been one of the world’s largest and most important companies. It has...
| Microsoft
Microsoft’s Irish operation is fundamental to its global success. Starting its first operations in Ireland in 1985 by opening a small manufacturing facility employing just over 100 people, it now...
| Microsoft Hellas
The Microsoft Greece, Cyprus and Malta legal team comprises of a multi-skilled function, containing not just legal personnel but also government affairs personnel, and it collaborates closely with the philanthropies...
| Microsoft Colombia
Microsoft’s brand is known across the world, with a revenue of $85bn generated from its IT hardware and software solutions. Protecting Microsoft’s existing products across hundreds of countries, as well...
| Microsoft Brazil
The Microsoft legal team in Brazil deals with a large number of concurrent issues at any one time, and its in-house ranks are correspondingly filled with highly competent individuals who...
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In 2018 Microsoft Hong Kong entered a memorandum of understanding with The University of Hong Kong to create an AI research platform using mutual resources to accelerate scientific progress and...
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Microsoft has had a presence in China for more than 20 years, establishing itself in the market in 1992 with an office in Beijing. Today it has expanded its business...
| Microsoft
The Microsoft in-house legal team in the Middle East region came together less than two years ago as the role of the in-house team in the Gulf adapted to working...
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Rebecca Radloff has been senior attorney and head of legal at Microsoft Ireland in Dublin since 2016, with attorney experience at Microsoft since 2008 and previous private practice experience in...
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Microsoft’s corporate, external and legal affairs (CELA) department in Sweden is an integrated part of the wider Western Europe team. The Western Europe legal team is led by assistant general...
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Global technology company Microsoft is well established in Italy, and has recently opened a new headquarters in Milan that is expected to house 10,000 professionals and a further 5,000 students...
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The US-based multinational technology giant Microsoft has a significant presence across Latin America including Chile. Led by legal director and corporate affairs manager Alex Pesso Stoulman, the legal team at...
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Technology giant Microsoft is supported in Argentina by lawyers that have decades of experience between them and oversee a wide remit encompassing legal affairs, corporate and compliance issues pertaining to...
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As one of the most recognisable global names in the information technology sector, Microsoft Africa has been dedicated to enhancing computer literacy in Africa through various initiatives, helping millions of...
Microsoft’s corporate, external and legal affairs (CELA) department in Switzerland is led by director of legal affairs Jan Widmer and includes team members supporting different functions and locations such as legal and non-legal, paralegal and government affairs. The team also collaborates closely with legal colleagues from the standards and digital diplomacy group from Microsoft in Geneva. The continued growth of Microsoft’s cloud business in Switzerland, led to the announcement of the opening of two new datacentres in the country. The legal team’s daily work consists of supporting business clients in customer engagements and negotiations. ‘The key to the team’s success is the passion to work at the intersection of business, law and technology’, says Widmer. ‘Since the latter is highly dynamic and the cycle of innovation of technology continues to speed up in an unforeseen way, it’s paramount to have the mind-set to continuously educate oneself about such developments’, Widmer explains. Therefore, the lawyers are being trained on the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, algorithms and cloud platforms. The legal department also regularly trains internal clients on legal and regulatory frameworks and introduced a legal chatbot powered by machine learning to help internal clients find answers to common questions. ‘During the past years it was important to deeply engage with regulators and to build up good relationships. The key is to understand the interests of local regulators and stakeholders like industry associations and subsequently find a balanced approach that takes into account the technical architecture of cloud computing services and the business interests of a multinational cloud provider like Microsoft’, explains Widmer. The legal team has found that full transparency, understanding of the underlying goal of regulatory frameworks and the respect for each other’s opinion is a must to reach feasible solutions for all parties involved. Microsoft’s legal team also has a seat at the table of the executive management team, which is of utmost importance to effectively lead a legal department. The legal department is also involved in the broader reach-out by Microsoft to start-ups in Switzerland, where it participates in associations to help support favourable and sense-making regulation to empower the Swiss start-up ecosystem in the fintech and drone industries.
Regional vice president and director of corporate, external and legal affairs
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Corporate, external and legal affairs head - Central Europe
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