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The In-House Counsel as Legal Risk Manager and Business Partner: Are These Roles Compatible?

October 2014
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Abstract

With a view to reducing the gap between the perception of the legal office (both internally and externally) and its actual role (communicated and implemented) and mental attitude, I wrote and circulated an internal document entitled “The In-House Counsel as Legal Risk Manager and Business Partner: Are These Roles Compatible?” My attorney colleagues and I were attempting to share a broad overview of how in-house counsel must be capable of thinking and acting in various apparently contradictory ways. Basically, I’m talking about what I’ve always called a “healthy feeling of imbalance”, meaning the comfortable feeling that comes from the knowledge that a precarious position is the norm.

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Author

Portrait image of Massimiliano Carpino
Massimiliano Carpino
Global General Counsel, Gucci, Switzerland

Global General Counsel and Board Member of GUCCI S.p.A., Massimiliano is an Italian BAR admitted lawyer with high degree of expertise and experience in corporate crimes at both national and transnational level. He is also Adjunct Professor of "Criminal & Privacy Law of New Technologies" at Cattolica del Sacro Cuore University of Milan, Italy, since academic year 2010-2011. He is skilled in identifying and managing risks of various kinds having honed those skills over more than twenty five years in both the public sector (handling pre-trial investigation for the public prosecutor's office) and the corporate sector.

Company

Gucci

Founded in Florence in 1921, GUCCI is one of the world's leading luxury fashion brands which employs over than 10000 people around the globe. With a renowned reputation for quality and Italian craftsmanship, GUCCI designs, manufactures and distributes highly desirable products such as leather goods (handbags, small leather goods, and luggage), shoes, ready-to-wear, silks, timepieces and fine jewelry. GUCCI products are sold exclusively through a network of directly operated boutiques in 40 different countries (475 stores as of March 2014 with 2013’s revenues € 3,561 million) and through e-commerce, as a valuable complementary business channel.

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