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Disney legal department to become ‘much smaller’ as memo cites tech transformation (opens the original)
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Disney’s legal team is set to become ‘much smaller,’ chief legal and global affairs officer Horacio Gutierrez has warned in a memo seen by Legal Business. Gutierrez, who has headed up the legal and global affairs (LGA) department at Disney since joining from Spotify in 2022, writes in the memo that ‘every part’ of the company ‘is being asked to reinvent itself and become radically more efficient,’ announcing a ‘transformation process’ called ‘LGA 2.0.’
M&A forum: How to get deals over the line in an increasingly volatile world (opens the original)
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Dozens of in-house leaders gathered at Sea Containers Events in central London earlier this week for the Legal 500 M&A forum, in association with Sullivan & Cromwell, to discuss dealmaking in an increasingly volatile world. The event kicked off with a panel hosted by Sullivan & Cromwell M&A and private equity partner Ben Perry (pictured right) titled ‘Going, going, gone: running competitive auction processes.’
‘The profession is going to change dramatically’ – Hyatt GC on AI, Covid challenges and career crossroads (opens the original)
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Margaret Egan, executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary at Hyatt Hotels, picked up the award for In-house Legal Leader of the year at the Mondaq and Legal 500 US In-House Counsel Celebration in Chicago in May. ‘It was quite a night,’ she recalls. ‘My son was graduating from high school and I was coming from his graduation ceremony, and then zooming into the dinner just as they were picking up the plates from the entrees. We had board meetings that morning – I had way too much goi
Ex-Rolls-Royce GC takes top role at BT as Chalmers prepares for ‘rewirement’ (opens the original)
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Former Rolls-Royce general counsel Mark Gregory has been appointed as chief legal and public affairs officer at BT, as group general counsel Sabine Chalmers prepares to step down after almost nine years at the company. Gregory, who left Rolls-Royce at the end of March, spent what he described as ‘twenty action-packed years’ at the FTSE 100 aerospace and defence giant, originally joining finance subsidiary Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance in 2005.
Starbucks EMEA GC on leadership, business turnarounds and traveling the ‘bumpy road’ (opens the original)
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‘When I started my business law degree, I loved it from day one,’ says Huma Allana van Reesch, general counsel, EMEA at Starbucks. ‘Pretty early on, I knew I wanted to be some kind of business lawyer, although at the time I didn’t really appreciate the difference between working in-house and being in private practice.’ Now, more than two decades into her career, she has found her calling, with in-house experience at a slew of household names that includes Coca-Cola, Reckitt, and now the multinat
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