Telefónica UK
General counsel: Edward Smith. Team headcount: 33 lawyers. There are few GCs like Edward Smith, who push their team members…
GC Powerlist 2015: The Team Elite
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…
Heathrow Airport Holdings
General counsel: Carol Hui. Team headcount: 16 lawyers. Considered as much a business adviser as a legal one, Heathrow Airport…
Gary Partington: Associate General Counsel and Regional Head of HSBC Technology and Services legal, EMEA
Gary Partington qualified as an outsourcing lawyer at Ventura in April 2008 before joining HSBC’s technology and services (HTS) division…
Areva
Group general counsel: Coralie Bouscasse. Team headcount: 134 lawyers. The legal team at French nuclear giant Areva has been praised…
Reckitt Benckiser
Senior vice president and group general counsel: Bill Mordan. Team headcount: 70 lawyers. The innovative approach of the legal team…
BAE Systems
Group general counsel: Philip Bramwell. Team headcount: 130 lawyers. A FTSE 100 company, which is the third-largest defence group in…
Daisy Le Vay: Head of Litigation and Co-head of Corporate Legal, EMEA, Nomura
A former Linklaters litigation associate, Daisy Le Vay became an in-house lawyer with Virgin Atlantic in 2007 before joining Nomura…
Credit Suisse
Global general counsel and head of compliance: Romeo Cerutti. Managing director and EMEA general counsel: Maria Leistner. Team headcount: 450…
HCA International
General counsel: Jasy Loyal. Team headcount: six lawyers. Despite rarely instructing outside counsel, the compact legal team at HCA International…
Aggregate Industries
General counsel: James Atherton-Ham. Team headcount: four lawyers. The relatively small in-house team at construction manufacturer and supplier Aggregate Industries…
Susan Henderson: European labour and employment head, GE
Susan Henderson leads GE’s centralised team of European labour and employment lawyers: a team she developed to provide support across…
The Co-operative Bank
General counsel and company secretary: Brona McKeown. Team headcount: 21 lawyers. With the bank mired in controversy for much of…
Unilever
Chief legal officer: Ritva Sotamaa. Team headcount: 500 (including support staff). Ritva Sotamaa has served as the chief legal officer…