EY Legal, Compliance & Investigations
EY provides enterprise legal guidance and services to help shape the future of the legal department and manage today’s critical business priorities and issues including ESG, transactions, fraud, regulatory compliance and crisis incidents. We bring an international team of more than 7,500 lawyers, paralegals, technologists and highly experienced forensic, law enforcement, compliance and regulatory professionals combining a global multi-disciplinary approach with leading technologies, deep subject-matter knowledge and wide-ranging sector experience.
Individual circumstances and needs are considered in developing a multidisciplinary approach for your business to help leaders better manage risk, protect and restore enterprise and financial reputation, foster a culture of integrity and compliance, generate cost savings and support business growth.
BDO is one of the world’s largest independent professional services advisory organisations, whose specialists offer public accounting, tax, legal, advisory and outsourcing services worldwide. At the end of 2020, BDO reported global revenues of US$ 12.8 billion and employed 91,054 professionals, working out of 1,803 offices around the world.
Within a global tax and legal division of 21,000 advisers, BDO’s Legal Community comprises over 700 specialist business lawyers located in more than 60 countries. We provide a comprehensive range of legal services, including corporate & commercial, M&A, employment law and immigration, IP/IT and insolvency & restructuring, amongst others.
Our lawyers are qualified and highly experienced in their local markets and are experts in multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary advice. They work closely with their colleagues from other countries and business lines to provide an exceptional 360º service to BDO clients across the world.
K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents. The firm represents leading multinational corporations, growth and middle-market companies, capital markets participants and entrepreneurs in every major industry group as well as public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations and individuals. For more information about K&L Gates or its locations, practices and registrations, visit
ADVANT is a European legal advisor which is uniquely positioned to give clients the advantage as they navigate the complex and nuanced legal and commercial landscape of Europe.
ADVANT was established in 2021 by three founding member firms are leading legal and tax advisors in their respective jurisdictions – ADVANT Altana in France, ADVANT Beiten in Germany, and ADVANT Nctm in Italy. Its combined team is comprised of more than 600 professionals, including more than 145 equity partners, in 14 locations throughout Europe (Berlin, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Hamburg, London, Milan, Munich, Paris, Rome) and around the world (Beijing, Moscow, Shanghai).
With deep local foundations and an international vision, ADVANT supports clients both in Europe and across borders and continents, delivering them the highest quality advice and results – efficiently and cost effectively through dedication, collaboration, and technical excellence.
CMS is a Future Facing firm. With 78 offices in more than 40 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide, we combine deep local market understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what’s coming, but to shape it. In a world of ever-accelerating change where technology is increasingly important in the deployment of global strategies, our clear, business-focused advice helps clients of every size to face the future with confidence. Our lawyers are genuine experts in their fields, with a grasp of detail that’s second to none. Our next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. It means we can anticipate the likely challenges, accelerate our pace and create the space to develop innovative solutions. We’re diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture in which every one of our people, can maximise their potential and thrive.
Deloitte Legal provides a full range of corporate and commercial law services, from complex advisory related to major business life events, restructuring contractual arrangements between group companies through to workforce challenges.
National and International legal services provided by Member Firms or in alliance relationships with independent law firms relating to Legal Advisory, Legal Management Consulting and Legal Managed Services.
Multinational organizations need legal advisors who can assist with day-to-day activities, as well as corporate life events across many jurisdictions. Deloitte Legal practitioners use leading technologies to deliver efficient and transparent support for the legal activities companies manage.
As a global top 10 law practice, Eversheds Sutherland provides legal services to a global client base ranging from small and mid-sized businesses to the largest multinationals, acting for 79 of the Fortune 100, 65 of the FTSE 100, and 134 of the Fortune 200. With more than 3,000 lawyers, Eversheds Sutherland operates in 70+ offices in 30+ jurisdictions across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the US. In addition, a network of more than 200 related law firms, including formalized alliances in Latin America, Asia Pacific, and Africa, provide support around the globe.
Our teams of lawyers around the world operate seamlessly to deliver the legal know-how and strategic alignment that clients need from their advisors to help further their business interests. Clients describe us as creative and well-versed in cutting-edge legal work – we listen well in order to understand how and where we can be most effective and add the greatest value.
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McDermott Will & Emery’s European Antitrust and Competition team specializes in merger control, investigations, litigation, compliance, distribution, all areas of competition law as well as European state aid law.
Our global team collaborates across practice groups and geographies to deliver nuanced perspectives to elevate strategy and surface highly effective solutions. More than 1,400 lawyers strong, there isn’t a legal issue we haven’t discussed or an industry segment into which we haven’t delved, and we thrive on working together to find the right answer for our clients.
Shoosmiths is a law firm that supports clients across the UK and internationally. The firm is a trailblazer in client excellence and innovation, winning prestigious industry awards, culminating in winning the Legal Business Awards Law firm of the Year 2022.
The firm offers strength in depth across all core disciplines alongside a range of specialisms, enabling legal services to be tailored to the needs of clients, which include fast-growth businesses and international corporates, through to public bodies and financial institutions. Shoosmiths has a long history of supporting in house counsel and supports ACC both in Europe and the US.
Known for our client experience, every service innovation we make is through listening to and working with clients to find a better way of working to save them time and money.
The ICDR®—International Centre for Dispute Resolution®— is the international division of the largest arbitral institution in the world, the American Arbitration Association® (AAA®). The ICDR is the foremost provider of global conflict-resolution solutions to businesses and organizations involved in cross-border disputes.
Drawing on the AAA’s 95+ years of experience, the ICDR administrative system offers a range of international alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services providing time and cost savings, along with vetted, skilled arbitrators and advanced technology.
Epiq, a global technology-enabled services leader to the legal industry and corporations, takes on large-scale, increasingly complex tasks for corporate counsel, law firms, and business professionals with efficiency, clarity, and confidence. Clients rely on Epiq to streamline the administration of business operations, class action, and mass tort, court reporting, eDiscovery, regulatory, compliance, restructuring, and bankruptcy matters. Epiq subject-matter experts and technologies create efficiency through expertise and deliver confidence to high-performing clients around the world. Learn more at www.epiqglobal.com
Fisher Phillips’ attorneys help multinational businesses comply with the employment laws that apply to them, no matter how far – or where – their operations reach. Whether you are a U.S. employer new to a foreign country or a new entrant to the U.S. grappling with the intricacies of U.S. employment law, we can help you. We have vast experience helping clients understand the dramatic differences between employment law in the various United States and employment laws abroad. Our team improves efficiencies by making sure the right issues are addressed and understanding broad concepts that local HR teams or counsel may otherwise misunderstand. Drawing on our own substantive skills on cross-border concepts, along with focused assistance from local counsel, we deliver discerning and practical advice on global employment issues. We are not tied to any official network of law firms or referral contracts with local counsel; instead, we use local counsel resources that best meet our clients’ needs, considering their individual circumstances, risk tolerance, budget, and the complexity of the issues at stake.
Founded over 20 years ago, Ius Laboris is consistently recognised as the world’s leading legal service provider in employment, immigration and pensions law. We work with employers to arm them with the knowledge they need to operate in local and international markets and our services include employment rights, data privacy, discrimination, health & safety, pay and benefits, immigration & global mobility, pensions, restructuring, labour relations, internal investigations and whistleblowing.
The Alliance has over 1,500 lawyers focusing on HR law based in more than 160 cities in over 56 countries, on 5 different continents. A combination of leading local HR lawyers operating in a seamless global group, means the group understands and advises on local employment laws and processes in an international setting. Ius Laboris firms are handpicked for being leading specialists in labour and employment law in their country, ensuring quality and scale across the board. Our clients cross all sectors and include many Global 500 companies. Our firms have garnered many prizes and accolades in recent years from respected publications and organisations for the very high quality of service we provide and our firms have an average Chambers ranking of 1.54 in 56 countries – which is by far the highest in the market.
Our clients and website users benefit from our daily articles, deep-dive reports, tools, apps, podcasts and webinars, along with our Global HR Law Guide and international HR training events – all, to ensure they have the information they need at their fingertips.
For more information please contact info@iuslaboris. com
With more than 1,700 attorneys in over 100 offices around the globe, Littler is everywhere you are. Our attorneys aim to go beyond best practices, creating solutions that help clients navigate a complex business world, whether a small local business or multinational corporation. Through an integrated client service strategy, Littler brings together practitioners experienced in local and cross-border labour and employment matters to provide seamless representation and counsel across national boundaries.
Littler’s international offices span four continents – North America, South America, Europe and Asia, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Our global capabilities also include several lawyers qualified to practice in additional jurisdictions ranging from Australia and New Zealand to Brazil, China, Japan, Russia, and South Africa. We are experienced in handling multi-country labour and employment matters that span the globe.
With deep experience and resources that are local, everywhere, we provide clients with comprehensive legal services covering the full range of workplace issues, including General Labour and Employment Advice, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Labour Relations and Works Council issues, Compliance, Codes of Conduct, Workforce Management, Data Privacy, and Reorganizations.
Onit is the leading provider of workflow solutions for enterprise legal management (ELM) and contract lifecycle management (CLM). Onit’s comprehensive product portfolio customizes AI-driven workflows for managing matters, spend, vendors, and contracts. With Onit, companies can evolve the legal department’s role as business protector and transform it into a business driver that materially influences the enterprise by improving operational and cost efficiency while simultaneously contributing to faster revenue generation and business growth.
Xakia Technologies is a legal matter management platform for connected and impactful in-house teams of any size.
Painless yet powerful, Xakia removes the need for endless excel spreadsheets and clunky, scattered data — providing a holistic view into your matters, tasks, deadlines, documents, and budgets while creating informative, data-driven dashboards for full visibility across individual and team workloads. In less than 1 hour, you will be increasing productivity, optimizing impact, and improving collaboration with your business clients.
Technology can be overwhelming, and not every lawyer is a tech-savvy 23-year-old. Xakia’s design philosophy is to create an intuitive user experience that focuses on simplicity and intuitive navigation, does not overwhelm the user with visual noise, and ensures easy and quick adoption by every team member, irrespective of their tech confidence. To this end, adoption occurs in a simple and user-friendly environment, with no expensive customization, dedicated IT time or major project costs.
Xakia was created in 2016 and services hundreds of clients across the globe. Its mission is to make Legal the most connected, impactful, and valued team in every organization.
Conga, the global leader in commercial operations transformation, helps businesses simplify and automate their approach to the essential quotes, contracts, and documents that drive commerce. We help our customers become more agile, so they can adapt quickly to change and create a fluid, connected customer experience. Companies choose Conga for the most comprehensive solution set in the market and expert guidance, enabling them to transform the processes and documents surrounding customer engagement, configure price quote (CPQ), contract lifecycle management (CLM) and the complete commercial operations lifecycle. With Conga, businesses evolve their commercial operations to streamline their revenue processes and derive the meaningful insights that lead to sustained growth.
Conga is headquartered in Broomfiel, Colorado with global operations across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Learn more at conga.com.
As a business software provider, DiliTrust offers intuitive SaaS solutions dedicated to legal departments, C-suites and boards to streamline legal and corporate governance activities. DiliTrust helps you boost your impact, enhance your performance and streamline your legal operations, while minimizing operational, financial, legal and cybersecurity risks. Internationally recognized for its know-how and cutting-edge expertise in the legal and corporate governance field, DiliTrust enables your teams to achieve their objectives in terms of regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, legal operations and financial communication.
DiliTrust works every day to meet the demands of its 2,300 clients, which includes private and public organizations of all sizes and industries, spread across more than 50 countries. Major corporations in Europe, North America, Africa and the Middle East rely on DiliTrust, among them: Almarai, AccorHotels, Ahli United Bank, Ecobank, Royal Bank of Canada, BNP Paribas, Bouygues, Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion du Maroc, Campari, Capgemini, Carraro, Commercial Bank of Dubai, Desjardins Capital, EDF, Engie, Eureden, Foyer, Geox, Ingenico, Koç, Les Domaines Agricoles du Maroc, Loto-Québec, LVMH, Luxempart, Octo, Renault, Richelieu Hardware, Groupe Robert, Safran, SFR, Sharaf Group, SNCF, Société Générale, Société de Transport de Montréal, Tereos, UJA Federation, UNICEF, Veolia Environnement, Ville de Montréal and Vivendi.
Knowliah is a leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions that leverage cutting-edge AI-based software to support legal departments of all sizes in capturing, structuring, and delivering critical information. Our modular platform is designed to streamline key legal processes such as Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), Matter & Spend Management, Litigation Management, Entity Management, and Third Party Risk & Compliance Management, and offers advanced reporting and analysis capabilities to help businesses identify potential risks and opportunities. With Knowliah, you can elevate your legal operations and stay ahead of the rapidly evolving legal landscape. Our user-friendly interface is highly customizable to meet your specific needs, while our built-in security and privacy features provide peace of mind. Whether you are a small business or a large corporation, Knowliah’s ELM & CLM solutions can help you to demonstrate your business value and achieve greater success. Additionally, our solutions have recently received recognition from Gartner and Forrester in their 2023 reports.
Mercator® by Citco is the pioneer of Entity Portfolio Management.
We create lasting partnerships with clients to understand their needs and offer control and transparency in the maintenance of their portfolio of entities. With over 75 years of experience, we provide clients with an efficient centralized service platform that covers more than 170 jurisdictions through a single point of contact and delivery framework unique in the industry.
Our knowledge of Global Entity Portfolio Management and proprietary technology ‘Entica™’ is evolving the way multinational companies view and manage their portfolio of entities, helping them navigate an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
NAVEX is trusted by thousands of customers worldwide to help them achieve the business outcomes that matter most. As the global leader in integrated risk and compliance management software and services, we deliver our solutions through the NAVEX One platform, the industry’s most comprehensive governance, risk and compliance (GRC) information system.
Brightflag is the platform and trusted guide in-house legal teams rely on to manage matters, spend and outside counsel.Brightflag includes spend and matter management capabilities that help legal departments gain visibility into operations, maximize productivity and engage with outside counsel strategically. Brightflag combines modern, easy-to-use software with best-in-class customer service and a relentless focus on continuous improvement.
Factor is the market leader in Integrated Law. Factor works alongside corporate legal departments and law firms to solve the ever-increasing demands and complexity of transactional legal work like contracting. With 10+ years of focused experience, Factor integrates the expertise of Traditional Law, and the efficiency of New Law, with the business know-how and integration of In-house legal to deliver complex legal work at scale. Factor helps re-focus in-house legal on advisory, solving business problems, and balancing commercial opportunities with legal risks.
Intapp helps transform in-house legal workflows and streamline corporate legal matter management with Microsoft 365. We provide a software solution that delivers a comprehensive matter management solution for corporate legal departments. Using familiar Microsoft 365 applications, the software streamlines matter instruction, triage, and allocation, as well as ongoing matter management. Legal departments gain comprehensive matter-centric document and email management, as well as data-driven reporting, insights, and analytics. Built on the Microsoft 365 platform, our solution connects your people, processes, and data to help transform legal operations and deliver efficiency, scalability, and productivity for legal professionals. For more information, visit intapp.com, https://twitter.com/intapp, https://www.instagram.com/intapp/, https://www.facebook.com/intapp/
Lexology is the global legal research platform to help you respond quickly and accurately to legal questions.
With the broadest global and work area coverage, Lexology covers 50+ work areas across 170+ jurisdictions, providing you with a one-stop shop for cross-border legal intelligence from the world’s leading experts and top-ranking law firms.
Lexology offers a range of premium features built specifically for in-house counsel, to provide you quick access to trusted, timely insight with tailored updates, forward-looking analysis and expert guidance combined with intuitive tools to streamline your global legal research, all on one platform.
Access the most credible information and research faster and smarter.
Lexology’s premium features, access via a subscription to Lexology PRO, helps you quickly understand evolving issues and take swift action to protect your business or clients. This includes GTDT, the world’s most comprehensive cross-jurisdictional comparison tool, Scanner, a dashboard delivering automated regulatory updates from 200+ global sources, AI-search, and a wealth of practical resources.
Use Lexology to advise with confidence, proactively resolve challenges, minimise risk and turn insight into action.
Lydian is a Belgian law firm that operates with a distinct Anglo-Saxon approach, offering a comprehensive range of legal services. We blend our transactional law expertise and litigation skills to provide practical and personalised advice that adds real value to our clients’ businesses. In an ever-changing world, we prioritise listening to our clients and providing fresh thinking and tech-savvy solutions combined with our extensive experience.
At Lydian, we are committed to client-focused, fast, and frank communication in a language that is easy to understand. We believe in making sense, not nonsense, and provide accessible personalities, open minds, and a pragmatic approach.
With offices in Brussels, Antwerp, and Hasselt, we function as a seamless extension of our clients’ teams. We value building close relationships with our clients while delivering sophisticated services that outperform many of our competitors. At Lydian, we prioritise integrity, authenticity, and consistency.
Our mission is to find solutions for our clients using our exceptional legal insight and strong business instinct. This approach enables us to exceed expectations, deliver consistent results, and build long-lasting relationships with industry leaders.
LC Publishing Group (LC) is the international company providing 100% digital information on the legal and in-house markets in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Latin America, USA, Switzerland and Egypt.
It publishes Iberian Lawyer, The Latin American Lawyer, Inhousecommunity.it, Legalcommunity.ch, InhousecommunityUS.com which provides daily news on in-house lawyers in the above mentioned jurisdictions. Every year, LC organizes Awards dedicated to in-house lawyers (Iberian Lawyer Gold Awards in Spain and Portugal, Inhousecommunity Awards in Italy and Egypt, Legalcommunity Awards in Switzerland) and annual weekly or daily events such as the Inhousecommunity Days in Rome, the Legalday in Spain and Portugal and the Legalcommunity Week, the international event dedicated to the legal business community held every year in June in Milan.
Iberian Lawyer, is a monthly digital magazine, published by LC Publishing, available in Spanish and English. It represents the main source of information in the legal business sector in Spain and Portugal. The digital magazine – and its portal – address to the protagonists of law firms and in-house lawyers. The magazine is available for free on the website and on Google Play and App Store. In every issue of the magazine, you will find rankings of lawyers, special report on trends, interviews, information about deals and their advisors.
Launched in May 2015, the publication’s readership includes legal affairs directors, HR managers, marketing managers, finance directors and top management. At the content level, it focuses on the figure of the in-house lawyer, the corporate lawyer and the evolution of this professional figure in Italy.
Cuatrecasas is an international law firm present in 13 countries, with a strong focus on Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Through our highly specialized legal teams with extensive knowledge and experience, we advise on all areas of business law, helping our clients with the most demanding matters wherever they are based.
We have a multidisciplinary and diverse team of over 1,200 professionals across 26 nationalities. We combine local expertise with our shared global resources, to guarantee expert, personal advice that is tailored to the needs of each client and each case.
We apply ESG criteria to our work approach and to the services we provide to promote initiatives that generate a social impact, help protect the environment and improve our corporate governance policies.
Founded over 170 years ago, Pearson plc has a simple purpose: to add life to a lifetime of learning. We believe every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. Our partnership with the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment provides organisations with the opportunity to upskill their staff and develop the resilience required to thrive in the 21st century, with short online courses underpinned by world-class research.
Provide your employees with the skills needed to make effective business decisions informed by sustainability best practice – from stark environmental challenges to wider social equity – and provide leadership for the law sector and your clients.
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The ACC Europe Annual Conference has been the focal point of ACC Europe’s activities and is a must-attend event in any European in-house counsel’s calendar. It includes two-and-a-half days of networking opportunities and advanced education sessions including interactive “Law Labs” focussed on leading topics of interest to the in-house counsel professional and Roundtable discussions.
The Annual Conference is a great opportunity to share your subject matter expertise, promote your services and solutions to an exclusively in-house counsel audience, build relationships and establish your organisation as a key support of the in-house community.
Join us in Brussels, 16-18 April 2023, to take advantage of the opportunity to:
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