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Centrica Legal Business General Counsel: Grant Dawson. Team headcount: 200 lawyers and paralegals globally, including compliance. The past year has seen the 200-strong…
BG Group Legal Business General counsel: Graham Vinter. Team headcount: 82 lawyers. Cited as popular with its commercial partners, the legal team at FTSE…
Royal Dutch Shell Legal Business Legal director: Donny Ching. Team headcount: 700 lawyers globally. Shell’s huge legal team, led by legal director Donny Ching, supports…
SSE Legal Business Director of legal services: Liz Tanner. Team headcount: 63 lawyers. 2014 was a busy year for the legal team at…
EDF Energy Legal Business Legal affairs director and company secretary: Guido Santi. Team headcount: 47 (including support staff). EDF Energy, one of the UK’s…
Areva Legal Business Group general counsel: Coralie Bouscasse. Team headcount: 134 lawyers. The legal team at French nuclear giant Areva has been praised…
Credit Suisse Legal Business Global general counsel and head of compliance: Romeo Cerutti. Managing director and EMEA general counsel: Maria Leistner. Team headcount: 450…
The Co-operative Bank Legal Business General counsel and company secretary: Brona McKeown. Team headcount: 21 lawyers. With the bank mired in controversy for much of…
Deutsche Bank Legal Business Group general counsel: Richard Walker. General counsel for the UK and western Europe: Emma Slatter. Team headcount: 100 lawyers in…
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Legal Business Global general counsel: Gary Lynch. Team headcount: 120 lawyers in EMEA. Supporting Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML)’s entry into…
Lloyds Banking Group Legal Business Group general counsel: Andrew Whittaker. Team headcount: 320 lawyers. Lloyds Banking Group (LBG)’s corporate, and corporate real estate team in…
The Royal Bank of Scotland Legal Business Group general counsel: John Collins. Team headcount: 400 lawyers. It has undoubtedly been a difficult few years at The Royal…
JP Morgan Legal Business General counsel: Stephen Cutler. EMEA general counsel: John Tribolati. Team headcount: 115 lawyers in London. JP Morgan remains one of…
AIG Legal Business EMEA general counsel: Chris Newby. Group general counsel: Thomas Russo. Team headcount: 1,200 in legal, regulatory and company secretarial, including…
Prudential Legal Business General counsel: Margaret Coltman. Team headcount: 83 lawyers. A choice insurance client for any law firm, Prudential currently has £457bn…
Aviva Legal Business Group general counsel and company secretary: Kirsty Cooper. General counsel: Monica Risam. Team headcount: 150 lawyers in the UK. Team…
AXA UK Legal Business General counsel: Edward Davis. Team headcount: 35 lawyers. The UK insurance division of French multinational investment group AXA has built…
RSA Group Legal Business Group general counsel: Derek Walsh. Team headcount: 40 lawyers. The sizeable legal team at insurance giant RSA, which consists of…
Direct Line Legal Business General counsel and company secretary: Humphrey Tomlinson. Team headcount: 18 lawyers. GC and company secretary Humphrey Tomlinson leads the team…
Bupa Legal Business Chief legal officer: Paul Newton Team headcount: 75 lawyers. Spread across more than 190 countries and territories, Bupa’s progressive legal…
