Senior vice president and group general counsel: Bill Mordan. Team headcount: 70 lawyers. The innovative approach of the legal team at multinational consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser (RB) to dealings with its internal clients and external counsel is well known among peers. The group legal function, which comprises the corporate team, global trade marks and …
US general counsel and senior vice president of legal operations: Gabe Holdsman. General counsel and company secretary: Paul Mussenden. Team headcount: six lawyers. Healthcare company BTG is described as the ‘shining light’ within the UK-listed biotech and speciality pharma sector. With a portfolio of interventional medicine products designed to advance the treatment of illnesses, including …
Chief legal officer: Paul Newton Team headcount: 75 lawyers. Spread across more than 190 countries and territories, Bupa’s progressive legal function operates as both a localised and centralised function, working across areas such as commercial property, NHS procurement, IT and employment. Serving an international healthcare provider, which turned over £9bn in 2013, has 22 million …
General counsel and company secretary: Humphrey Tomlinson. Team headcount: 18 lawyers. GC and company secretary Humphrey Tomlinson leads the team of 18 lawyers at Direct Line Group and according to one RPC partner, the experienced in-house leader is ‘a first-rate lawyer, a great mind and a very nice person. He appreciates good advice too’. It …
Group general counsel: Derek Walsh. Team headcount: 40 lawyers. The sizeable legal team at insurance giant RSA, which consists of 40 lawyers globally across the strands of legal, compliance and company secretarial is ‘well run, very tight and high quality’, according to insurance partner David Webster at RPC. A Magic Circle partner comments on the …
General counsel: Edward Davis. Team headcount: 35 lawyers. The UK insurance division of French multinational investment group AXA has built a reputation for innovative cost efficiency and a driving ambition to retain challenging legal work in-house. Group GC Edward Davis also established the insurer’s first global legal panel as part of its ‘Ambition 2012’ strategy …
Group general counsel and company secretary: Kirsty Cooper. General counsel: Monica Risam. Team headcount: 150 lawyers in the UK. Team heads Monica Risam (pictured) and Kirsty Cooper, who serve as GC and group GC respectively, have worked to implement multiple new initiatives, which have helped to establish Aviva as having one of the most forward-thinking …
General counsel: Margaret Coltman. Team headcount: 83 lawyers. A choice insurance client for any law firm, Prudential currently has £457bn of assets under management and serves 23 million customers worldwide, so housing a formidable in-house legal function is a critical requirement. The legal team is currently led by group GC and company secretary Margaret Coltman, …
EMEA general counsel: Chris Newby. Group general counsel: Thomas Russo. Team headcount: 1,200 in legal, regulatory and company secretarial, including 85 lawyers in Europe. Talk of innovation is widespread among in-house legal teams but at AIG, the team genuinely stands out for delivering on a number of fronts with little fanfare despite being a company …
General counsel: Stephen Cutler. EMEA general counsel: John Tribolati. Team headcount: 115 lawyers in London. JP Morgan remains one of the most coveted and lucrative legal clients in the world. From transactional, regulatory and compliance instructions, and a legal expense bill that totalled more than $1.1bn in the fourth quarter of 2014 alone as a …
