Corporate legal manager / Senior Director with substantial in-house experience and strong execution abilities. Good people skills and a commercial- and operational mindset. Further, many years of international experience with general business law, complex negotiations (BtB, BtC and BtG), enforcement, defense export compliance, HR-issues, whistleblowing, governance and corporate house cleaning as well as taking part in- and executing managerial decisions. Have specialiced in int. IPR and military export compliance over the years.Do also have experience with compliance/governance, security (defense segment), consulting and have - besides "general lawyering" - been working as a diplomat, officer, educator, senior IPR expert (EUC), procuration holder, board member, administrator - i.e. an operational "jack-of-all-trades" with a flair for corporate challenges. Extensive experience with all aspects of providing IPR solutions to design- and/or manufacturing companies (both BtB and BtC). Experience with a.o. international IPR strategies and implementation, international IPR enforcement, China legal challenges and solutions, contract drafting, all kinds of negotiations, corporate law (establishment, liquidation, M&A) and IT law. I find people management very enjoyable and - mostly - rewarding on a personal level; especially making a real difference for my employees, succeeding in obtaining team-goals with other knowledge workers and performing international co-operation activities. I do like to travel and “crush problems” of all sorts.Special interest areas over the years: people management, international IPR law and enforcement, IPR Strategies and -Management, corporate governance and Risk Management, contact to public authorities, international legal matters, IT law, military export compliance & general problem solving.
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