Jerry Temko
Vice president, general counsel and compliance officer
Astellas Pharma Europe
With an in-house career at pharma companies spanning more than 20 years, Jerry Temko is one of the most experienced GCs in the sector.
Funke Abimbola – Roche Products
Funke Abimbola
Managing counsel (UK & Ireland)
Roche Products
Funke Abimbola made the leap from private practice to in-house at the beginning of last year and hasn’t looked back since. She says that she is the ‘only non-medic’ in her family and has consequently found her home at the pharmaceutical giant.
Jacqueline Hill – Gazprom Energy Marketing & Trading
Jacqueline Hill
General counsel
Gazprom Energy Marketing & Trading
Identified as a ‘smart lawyer with a broad international perspective’ and a ‘rising star of the industry’, Jacqueline Hill has been the GC for the UK subsidiary of the Russian gas giant Gazprom since 2006 after moving from EDF Trading.
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Robert Reeves – Anadarko Petroleum
Robert Reeves
General counsel
Anadarko Petroleum
Robert Reeves, the general counsel at oil and gas exploration company Anadarko Petroleum is highlighted as ‘carrying a lot of weight in the industry’. With more than 30 years of legal and management experience under his belt, Reeves has responsibility for the company’s legal, government relations, public affairs, information technology and administration functions.
Graham Vinter – BG Group
Graham Vinter
General counsel
BG Group
Described as ‘such a big name that his views will always get taken seriously both inside and outside the company’ and having spent the best part of two decades as a partner at a Magic Circle firm, Graham Vinter has high expectations of his external legal panel firms. With an external legal spend of $30m-40m worldwide each year at BG Group he is particularly keen that firms have a deep understanding of the oil and gas industry and the cost pressures clients are under.
Grant Dawson – Centrica
Grant Dawson
General counsel and company secretary
Centrica
Since Centrica’s demerger from British Gas in 1997, Grant Dawson has ‘made the role his own’, according to one energy partner. This includes leading the way with his advice on deals covering the full spread of power supply and generation, including Centrica’s joint venture with EDF Energy in 2009 and the acquisition of Venture Production.
Janet Langford Kelly – ConocoPhillips
Janet Langford Kelly
Senior vice president, Legal, general counsel and corporate secretary
ConocoPhillips
Janet Langford Kelly is revered as one of the leading in-house international lawyers on complex energy matters with 25 years’ experience in the industry. ‘I don’t know if there is any straight “path” to becoming a GC, it is often as much luck as preparation,’ she says.
Peter Rees QC – Royal Dutch Shell
Peter Rees QC
Legal director
Royal Dutch Shell
In 2010 Shell’s legal director Beat Hess retired, leaving big shoes to fill, so the oil major took the unusual step of hiring arbitration specialist Peter Rees QC.
Graham Martin – Tullow Oil
Graham Martin
General counsel and company secretary
Tullow Oil
‘If you cut Graham Martin he would bleed Tullow Oil,’ says one leading energy lawyer. Martin is clearly committed to a company that he has been associated with since his private practice days at Vinson & Elkins in the eighties, which has exploration and production assets in 23 countries, including Africa, Europe, South Asia and South America.
Andrew Carr – Sellafield
Andrew Carr
Head of legal services
Sellafield
Andrew Carr is modest about the pressures of being one of the most high-profile general counsel in the country, but few industries have experienced the dramatic swings and roundabouts of the nuclear sector. It is important for Carr that external counsel understand the unique demands of the industry.