An interview with Milan Kajtez, Head of Legal at UniCredit Bank a.d. Banja Luka about his background and best practices.
Inside Insight: Interview with Alice Radu, General Legal Counsel for Romania & Bulgaria at Bosch Group Romania
An interview with Alice Radu, General Legal Counsel for Romania & Bulgaria at Bosch Group Romania about her background and best practices.
Inside Insight: Interview with Andras Busch, General Counsel at Siemens Energy Hungary
An interview with Andras Busch, General Counsel at Siemens Energy Hungary.
Inside Insight: Interview with Madalina Juncu of Mondelez
Juncu has been with Mondelez since 2018, when she joined it on secondment from Stratula & Asociatiii. In April 2019, she took on her current role.
Inside Insight: Interview with Florina Homeghiu of Policolor-Orgachim
Florina Homeghiu spent the first decade of her career in private practice before, in 2017 moving in-house with the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company – Romania, initially as Senior Legal Counsel, then, in 2018, as Country Legal Manager and Compliance Officer. In May of 2020 she joined the Policolor-Orgachim group.
Inside Insight: Interview with Stefan Orosi, Head of Legal and Compliance at Prima Banka Slovensko
“The in-house advisory role enables a lawyer to go deeper into the mysteries of the banking business and experience the life of a transaction, not just observe it from a distance. I elected to pursue an in-house practice at the beginning of my career, and even though I was tempted to switch to private practice many times, I remain loyal to the in-house life.”
Inside Insight: Interview with Ingo Steinwender, Group Head of Legal at CA Immobilien Anlagen
CEE Legal Matters first interviewed Ingo Steinwender in 2014, near the end of his first year as Group Head of Legal at CA Immobilien Anlagen AG, one of the largest real estate companies in Austria. Six years later, we check in.
Inside Insight: Interview with Anastasiya Shkarina of Unilever
CEELM: Can you walk us through your career leading you up to your current role?
Inside Insight: Interview with Anna Wawrzynczak of the Polish Development Fund
Polish lawyer Anna Wawrzynczak spent 14 years in private practice with two highly-regarded international law firms before moving in-house with the Coast2Coast investment fund, where she was Regional Counsel CEE for almost three years. In October 2019 she accepted an offer to become the Legal Manager, Head of the Corporate Division at the Polish Development Fund in Warsaw.
Inside Insight: Misa Vorotovic of PMI
An interview with the Belgrade-based Senior Counsel CEE at Philip Morris International
Inside Insight: Jasmina Ginoska of Eurostandard Bank
An interview with the long-time Head of Legal at Eurostandard Bank in Macedonia
Building and Managing a Legal Team
Building a successful in-house legal department involves selecting the right people for the right positions, deciding which lawyers to assign to which tasks, instructing and training them, convincing them to work as a cohesive unit rather than a bunch of individuals, and of course addressing and resolving conflicts and crises – all while fulfilling the critical function of legal advisor to the rest of the company. It’s not easy.
General Counsel as Business Advisors in the Balkans
In addition to their traditional role guiding companies through legal and regulatory waters and managing disputes, General Counsels are increasingly called upon to provide input on strategic matters. An expert panel at the second annual Balkan GC Summit considered how this change in the nature of the General Counsel role is manifesting itself in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
The Foreign Investor: Interview with Hyprop CIO Wilhelm Nauta
Hyprop Investments – South Africa’s largest listed specialist shopping center Real Estate Investment Trust – operates a portfolio of premium shopping centers in South Africa, other countries of sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeastern Europe. Hyprop’s six current investments in SEE include two shopping malls in Zagreb and one each in Sofia, Podgorica, Belgrade, and Skopje. Hyprop is internally managed and headquartered in Johannesburg.
Inside Insight: Interview with Peter Malovec of HB Reavis
Peter Malovec is the Group Head of Legal at HB Reavis in Bratislava. He joined HB Reavis in 2010 after spending seven years in private practice with the BBH law firm. We reached out to him to learn more about his background, style, and strategies.
Inside Insight: Checking in on Eleni Stathaki of Upstream
In the October 2015 issue of the CEE Legal Matters magazine we spoke with Eleni Stakathi, the Head of Legal at Upstream in Greece. We decided to check in with her and see how things had changed in the last four years.
Inside Insight: Interview with Igor Andries
Igor Andries is the Head of Legal & Regulatory at Orange Moldova.
Engaging and Empowering Your Lawyers
Bardugov Alexander is the Head of Legal of Banca Intesa in Moscow, a role which he has held since 2013. He first joined Banca Intesa in 2004 as a Junior Legal Counsel, gradually progressing to Head of Sector for Banking Operations Legal Support in 2008, Head of Legal Support for Retail and SME in 2009, and Head of Business Legal Support in 2010.