Global Deputy General Counsel
FARO Technologies
Germany
Key facts:
– Seasoned, internationally highly experienced all-round legal advisor (governance, complex projects, efficient legal operations) and decision-maker
– High technology industry-experienced
– Specialist lawyer certificates in information technology law and in employment law (Germany)
– Admitted to the practice of law: New York State, Germany
– Law firm, in-house and research case track
– General management
– Extensive case track (> 17 years) in cross-border M&A (>30 closed acquisitions and divestitures) and in setting up, managing, divesting, and winding down (new / old) ventures including joint ventures; re-shoring and off-shoring
– Profound experience in ramping up and in tackling global privacy and tackling privacy and cybersecurity challenges
Focus activities:
– Design and execute legal department strategy in line with budgetary and cross-functional strategic goals
– Drafting, strategic business modelling, and negotiation for strategic transactions (acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, technology cooperations)
– Cross-functional and cross-level legal support
– Legal process design
– International corporate law
– Advisory for risk mitigation and opportunity seizing
– Strategic negotiation, conflict mediation
– Strategic collaboration, international strategy
– Technology innovation and growth initiatives
– Intellectual property strategies, a strategic knowledge management
– Managing industrial relations