About

Just over ten years ago, Greif did not have a legal department. Today, it has an in-house team to serve all its operations in over 50 countries. The department has been spearheaded by Gary Martz from the beginning, and he has long played a role in key business decisions: for a number of years, he was president of the land management and timber segment, and recently he took on responsibility for all the company’s real estate holdings across the globe. Martz deals daily with a complex web of of multi-country issues ranging from FCPA and intellectual property, to dealing with the SEC, and M&A and complex financings. Martz is excellent at providing innovative and flexible solutions from both a legal and business perspective. Joseph Boeckman of Baker & Hostetler says: ‘through both in-house and outside counsel, Martz has developed a worldwide legal team that is both diligent and responsive to the company’s legal needs’.