Life During Law – John Reynolds Legal Business If you wanted to do litigation, there was no better place than Herbert Smith. I have no idea why but…
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…
AIG Legal Business EMEA general counsel: Chris Newby. Group general counsel: Thomas Russo. Team headcount: 1,200 in legal, regulatory and company secretarial, including…
Jenny Lowe: Senior legal counsel, property and planning, Aggregate Industries Legal Business In January 2012, with five years’ post-qualification experience, Jenny Lowe joined Aggregate Industries from McGrigors, taking on the role of…
Sarah Doherty: Legal counsel, Coca-Cola Legal Business Sarah Doherty only completed her training contract at Coca-Cola in February 2012, having previously been a paralegal, but she has…
Sarah Morton: Managing counsel, global litigation, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Shell Legal Business Having joined Shell in November 2011 from Debevoise & Plimpton, where she worked with former general counsel (GC) Peter Rees…
Howard Landes: Chief counsel, corporate finance, BG Group Legal Business As BG Group’s chief corporate counsel, reporting to GC Graham Vinter, Howard Landes is the lawyer responsible for BG Group’s…
Martin Graham: Senior vice president, Oaktree Capital Legal Business Martin Graham joined Oaktree Capital from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in 2007 as assistant vice president (VP), becoming VP in…
Alice Marsden: Head of legal UK&I, Thomas Cook Group Legal Business Wragge & Co-trained, on qualification Alice Marsden joined Latham & Watkins as an associate before moving to Thomas Cook in…
Gary Partington: Associate General Counsel and Regional Head of HSBC Technology and Services legal, EMEA Legal Business Gary Partington qualified as an outsourcing lawyer at Ventura in April 2008 before joining HSBC’s technology and services (HTS) division…
Daisy Le Vay: Head of Litigation and Co-head of Corporate Legal, EMEA, Nomura Legal Business A former Linklaters litigation associate, Daisy Le Vay became an in-house lawyer with Virgin Atlantic in 2007 before joining Nomura…
Susan Henderson: European labour and employment head, GE Legal Business Susan Henderson leads GE’s centralised team of European labour and employment lawyers: a team she developed to provide support across…
Emily Cane: Associate Counsel for EMEA commercial lines, AIG Legal Business According to one nomination in support of Emily Cane’s inclusion in this year’s report, she is ‘regarded as indispensable to…
Life During Law: Ciaran Carvalho, Nabarro Legal Business I decided I wanted to be a lawyer aged 14. My parents’ friends were looking after me while my parents…
Client profile: Neil Harnby, Royal Mail Group Kathryn McCann The postal service provider’s GC on unique legal work for an iconic British institution As general counsel (GC) of Royal…
Life During Law: Jason Glover, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Legal Business Clifford Chance (CC) was a great place to be in the 1990s. Geoffrey Howe deserves a huge amount of credit.…
Not always an ‘easy journey’: Q&A with Jonathan Scott, outgoing HSF senior partner Legal Business Tom Moore talks to Jonathan Scott, senior partner and chair at Herbert Smith Freehills, about management, why he’s stepping down…
‘A very different role’: Q&A with HSF’s new senior partner James Palmer Legal Business James Palmer (Profile) talks to Legal Business about being elected the first senior partner at Herbert Smith Freehills since the…
Perspectives: Simon Davis, Clifford Chance Legal Business When I was at school trying to figure out what to study at university, the school organised a series of…
