Experience

Mazda Motor Belux / Mazda Motor Logistics Europe

• Belgium
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Manager Legal Department

  • Jan 2008 - Present

  - Constantly monitor changes in the legal environment and implement improvements to processes ensuring that Mazda practices comply with legal provisions; - Draft, design, review and negotiate all kinds of contracts related to Mazda’s business (supply agreements, transportation agreements, purchasing contracts, financial agreements, IT contracts, outsourcing agreements, dealer contracts, etc.); - Maintain contract management system; - Participate in the development of standard terms and conditions; - Provide advice regarding all legal aspects of the set-up of new branches and the legal follow-up of these structures; - Together with the CFO follow up all corporate law aspects of the Belgium structure (organise board of director’s meetings and shareholders’ meeting, publication in the Belgian Official Gazette); - Work together with the head of legal in Germany on specific European projects (i.e. financing agreements, corporate issues, P&L matters); - Follow-up of disputes : draft notices of default, negotiate with the counterparty, draft settlement agreements, prepare the lawsuit to be filed by a lawyer, read and correct the lawyer’s conclusions, execute the court’s judgment; make half-yearly litigation reports; - Organise training courses for the personnel of MLE; - Provide (pro-actively and re-actively) advice to business units in connection with any legal question in order to ensure legal compliance; - Dealing and execution of special projects assigned to the legal department (installation of a whistle-blowing scheme; MAP, share transfer between several Mazda-entities in Europe, …); - Draft and implementation of a policy on the legal department/SLA’s; - Manage external business contacts including - if applicable - their selection, termination and management as well as the monitoring of their effectiveness. Show less



Nokia

• Finland
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Company lawyer

  • Nov 2006 - Dec 2007

  See description of company lawyer within Siemens NV but additionally : * Member of the Board of Directors of Nokia Siemens Networks Belgium, Nokia Siemens Networks Algeria, Nokia Siemens Networks Tunisia and Nokia Siemens Networks Morocco ; * Formation of affiliate companies in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Nigeria ; * Assistance in corporate legal matters, such as nomination of board of directors, opening of bank accounts in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Nigeria, administration of branch offices in Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali and Niger ; * Compliance officer for the North, West and East African Sub-region. Show less



Siemens

• Germany
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Administrator and Controller

  • Jul 2005 - Nov 2006

  • Support projects from the beginning till the very end :* During project acquisition phase : read the tender documents, make a point-to-point answer to such documents, collect all information required for the submission of the offer (certificates, bid bonds, ...), verify and adapt the profit and loss analysis as well as the risk analysis, hold bid approval meetings, start contract negotiations with potential subcontractors ;* After bid submission but before contract signature: provide clarifications to the customer, negotiate the contract with the customer ;* During project execution phase: fulfill all conditions precedent for the project to become effective, financial follow-up of the project (invoicing, inventory and asset management, collecting all documents needed for presentation under a documentary credit/letter of credit, ...), verify if the contract with the customer is correctly executed, mitigate risks and perform an adequate claim management.• Financial reporting. Show less

• Company lawyer

  • May 1998 - Jul 2005

  Advice business units on any legal question that arises, draft and verify all kinds of contracts (supply agreements, financing agreement, purchase agreements, settlement agreements, share purchase agreements, etc), conduct negotiations in respect of these contracts, verify tender documents, provide legal courses to employees, be in charge of some administrative processes such as the aggregation of the company as contractor, compliance with the Belgian law on data processing, etc.