Turkey Teams 2016
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Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? At HUL, our operating model is designed to deliver faster decisions....
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Operating as a subsidiary of Unilever, Unilever España manufactures and distributes fast-moving consumer goods such as food, home and personal products, with well-known brands such as Dove, Axe, Lipton and...
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Unilever’s legal department is a small and agile team, comprising of three lawyers, Christina Vasilopoulou, who is general counsel, Kalliopi Georganda and Alexandra Moussatou. The territorial responsibility of the legal...
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Headed by Colombian lawyer Jorge De Los Rios, Unilever’s seven-strong Middle Americas legal team covers the entire Andean region and Central America. Over the past two years the team has...
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Starting its operations in the country in 1891, Unilever has offices and manufacturing locations across South Africa. Its South African legal team is overseen by general counsel Africa, Kim Morgan-Verlaque...
The Unilever Ghana-Nigeria cluster legal department operates a business partnering model comprising of six lawyers and one non-lawyer embedded within different business divisions under the supervision of Abidemi Ademola, the...
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Risk management and integrity is a key part of the legal management at British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company Unilever, making up a large part of a company that pushes a...
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The 16-strong legal team tasked with providing legal support to Unilever’s business across Russia, Ukraine and Belarus is comprised of a number of outstanding individuals. It is headed by Anastasia...
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Vice president of legal services and general secretary Ulises Canosa Suárez leads a legal team of 50 members at BBVA Colombia, a major Colombian banking institution. The legal team is...
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Possessing state of the art expertise in all applicable topics such as competition law, privacy, new technologies law and compliance, Unilever’s legal team in the Central American region has managed...
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Global consumer goods giant Unilever has a strong presence in the Nordic countries, and its business activities in the region are supported by a compact but agile, knowledgeable and business-savvy...
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Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) is an Indian state-owned oil and natural gas company and is one of the largest Indian businesses. It has 25% market share in India among...
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With a presence in Indonesia that dates back to 1933, Unilever has a long established history in the country and recorded revenues in excess of US$2.8bn in 2016. Reski Damayanti...
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British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company Unilever has an extremely strong presence in Southeast Asia and its esteemed position in the region’s markets is reflected in the quality of its South...
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Covering Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, Unilever’s Southern Cone operations cover a range of jurisdictions and regulatory regimes. The legal team tasked with overseeing the multinational consumer products...
No year is uneventful at global consumer goods giant Unilever, but 2017 in particular was memorable, thanks to the unsuccessful blockbuster merger with Kraft Heinz. It would have been the...
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The African market is a significant one for Unilever’s vast and diverse product range, and Unilever has in turn become one of the most important multinationals operating on the Continent....
Covering a wide spectrum of work from M&A “white space” to digital advertising, business integrity agenda to competition law, the legal function at Unilever is ‘at the heart of the business’ and an integral part of strategic decision making. Esra Tapban leads the legal team of seven members as legal director for Unilever Turkey, Central Asia and Iran. Having only been hired by Tapban in the last 12 months, the legal team was recognised quickly and was awarded internally as “Partnering Team of Unilever” in 2015 and “Pioneering Team of Unilever” in 2016. Describing why the team has been successful, Tapban says ‘in order for our legal team to continue growing and operating at scale, we focused on employing innovative strategies and leveraging the business, establishing processes while balancing the need to preserve our culture and keeping up with the growth. That’s where our legal team comes in to create tools to help us stay organised, track and collaborate on projects, improve our efficiency and help us scale’. Furthermore the team has been proactive and innovative by creating claim committees with other divisions where company statements are finalised before being featured or launched on market. The creation of a ‘golden triangle’ team that consists of legal, external affairs and regulatory representatives, has allowed comprehensive evaluation of legal and regulatory risks, enabling the team to assess the feasibility of the offered claims based on current insights of internal and external legislative developments and internal scientific evaluation on substantiation of claims. Explaining the team’s approach to ensuring the application of Unilever’s “Code of Business Principles” and related “Code Policies”, Tapban says the team ‘embeds a culture of deliberately high standards and behaviours in the workplace, to promote and protect the good reputation of Unilever as well as respecting all applicable laws and regulations’.
