Any Danish company which has its securities admitted to trading on a regulated market has been exposed to regulation on Corporate Governance throughout the last decade. The Danish Committee on...Read more
Two hundred years or so ago the industrial revolution and explosion of commerce lead to the legal profession of the attorney or solicitor joining that of the bar. The...Read more
Mike Butcher
General Counsel and Company Secretary, Veolia Environment UK Limited, UK
Michael Butcher is General Counsel and Company Secretary of Veolia Environment UK Limited, the British holding company of Veolia Environnement SA - the world's largest supplier of environmental services - and the Legal Director and Company Secretary of Veolia Water UK PLC. Previously he was Group Legal Director and Company Secretary of Eurotunnel. Prior to then he had a career in Europe and the USA in Exxon's Law Department. Michael is the External Auditor of Trinity College London, a director of Central Railway Limited and a Consultant to City of London law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain and to French law firm Triplet & Associes. He graduated from Keele University with a BA honours degree in Philosophy and Law and is a Barrister. Michael is a Bencher of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, a past President of the Franco-British Lawyers Society and has been honoured by France and made Officier dans l'Ordre National du Merite.
