Legal Business Awards – GC Power List 2015 Reception
On 24 March 2015 Legal Business held the GC Power List 2015 reception, sponsored by RPC, Barclay Simpson and Thomson…
GC Powerlist 2015: The Team Elite
GC Power List 2015: The Team Elite
Menu It’s the ‘decade of the lawyer’. Law firms beware RPC: The pace of change is frightening The A-Teams –…
It’s the ‘decade of the lawyer’. Law firms beware
Our third annual GC Power List report looks more like a state-of-the profession piece than its two predecessors. While the…
The A-Teams – In Pursuit of Excellence
The 2015 Legal Business GC Power List puts the strength and depth of top in-house legal teams under the spotlight.…
Boardroom Horizons: The Market View
Top-level general counsel give their views on what marks out an exceptional in-house legal team in a risk-driven global economy.…
Beyond the 50
The Power List 2015 settled on 50 exceptional legal teams but there is a wealth of talent in the employed…
BG Group
General counsel: Graham Vinter. Team headcount: 82 lawyers. Cited as popular with its commercial partners, the legal team at FTSE…
RSA Group
Group general counsel: Derek Walsh. Team headcount: 40 lawyers. The sizeable legal team at insurance giant RSA, which consists of…
ITV
General counsel: Andrew Garard. Team headcount: 87 lawyers, including 65 in the UK. Over the past five years, ITV’s profitability…
Howard Landes: Chief counsel, corporate finance, BG Group
As BG Group’s chief corporate counsel, reporting to GC Graham Vinter, Howard Landes is the lawyer responsible for BG Group’s…
Royal Dutch Shell
Legal director: Donny Ching. Team headcount: 700 lawyers globally. Shell’s huge legal team, led by legal director Donny Ching, supports…
Direct Line
General counsel and company secretary: Humphrey Tomlinson. Team headcount: 18 lawyers. GC and company secretary Humphrey Tomlinson leads the team…
Telefónica UK
General counsel: Edward Smith. Team headcount: 33 lawyers. There are few GCs like Edward Smith, who push their team members…
Martin Graham: Senior vice president, Oaktree Capital
Martin Graham joined Oaktree Capital from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in 2007 as assistant vice president (VP), becoming VP in…
SSE
Director of legal services: Liz Tanner. Team headcount: 63 lawyers. 2014 was a busy year for the legal team at…
Bupa
Chief legal officer: Paul Newton Team headcount: 75 lawyers. Spread across more than 190 countries and territories, Bupa’s progressive legal…
Balfour Beatty
General counsel and chief corporate officer: Chris Vaughan. Team headcount: 51 lawyers. It would be fair to say the legal…
Alice Marsden: Head of legal UK&I, Thomas Cook Group
Wragge & Co-trained, on qualification Alice Marsden joined Latham & Watkins as an associate before moving to Thomas Cook in…
EDF Energy
Legal affairs director and company secretary: Guido Santi. Team headcount: 47 (including support staff). EDF Energy, one of the UK’s…
BTG
US general counsel and senior vice president of legal operations: Gabe Holdsman. General counsel and company secretary: Paul Mussenden. Team…