Month: April 2025

ECLA GCRT in London

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Welcome to London 🇬🇧 – General Counsel Roundtable on the Challenging Corporate and M&A Market in Europe live now…

24 participants from 14 different European 🇪🇺 countries are discussion the latest trends and challenges in corporate mergers & acquisitions in the magnificent Kimpton hotel in London, United Kingdom. The highly active and interesting discussion include topics like:
💡 M&A Power Shift: A Buyer’s Market with Savvy Sellers Fighting Back
💡 Deal Disputes & ESG Litigation: The New Battlefield in M&A
💡 Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD): Compliance & Strategic Impact in the Age of Omnibus
💡 General Counsel & AI: Navigating Risk, Compliance, and Legal Transformation

We would like to thank our great speakers for enriching and structuring the discussion, our participants for traveling to London and our partner CMS Corporate/M&A Group and CMS for their great support.

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STRONGER UNDER ONE UMBRELLA – ECLA met with National Council of the Republic of Poland in Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱

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📅 On 7 – 8 April, at the invitation of the President Włodzimierz Chróścik, ECLA had the pleasure to meet executive representatives of the Krajowa Izba Radców Prawnych for a fruitful exchange on our profession, including Tomasz Scheffler (Vice-President, KIRP), Alicja Jagielska-Burduk (Chairwoman of the Foreign Committee, KIRP), Magdalena Bartosiewicz (Member of the Human Rights Committee, KIRP) and Przemysław Kamil Rosiak (Chairman of the Polish Delegation to the CCBE), Waldemar Koper (Vice-President, ECLA), Eric Lennerth (Treasurer, ECLA), Marcus M. Schmitt (General Manager, ECLA).
Topics discussed included, among others:

💡 The Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer
💡 Pending case at the Court of Justice of the European Union on the transposition of the whistleblower directive in Belgium
💡 The protection of the rule of law and the evolution of the lawyers profession in Europe

We thank our hosts for the fantastic meeting in their impressive offices in Warsaw and look forward to extending the cooperation between our two organizations 🇪🇺 .

ECLA KIRP RuleOfLaw CompanyLawyers

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ECLA Workshop: From Generative AI to Agentic AI

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From Generative AI to Agentic AI – focussing on decision-making and autonomous action…Legal problem solving ahead?

Outstanding ECLA workshop on artificial intelligence 🤖 and how it will shape the legal work ⚖️ in the next 6-12 months – Deeper dive into AI challenges, innovations and expected evolution. On 4 April 2025 participants from 20 different 🇪🇺 countries met in the impressive offices of ServiceNow in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪, overlooking the Trinity College campus and sharing their experience and visions on the next generation AI for use in legal and beyond.

We thank our speakers 🗣️ for their fantastic input Brian Connolly (Head of Responsible AI @ Accenture, Alex Towers (EMEA Head of Privacy @ Adobe) Emil D. Atanassov (VP, Internationalisation and Globalisation @ ServiceNow), Mark Cockerill (Senior Vice President, Legal – Corporate, M&A and International Development @ ServiceNow).

Quote of the day:
‘What’s your post-AI career?’ 👩‍🎓

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ECLA extend its network to 24 member organisations during General Assembly in Dublin 🇮🇪

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Last Friday, 4 April 2025 ECLA held its 51st General Assembly at the Law Society of Ireland in Dublin with representatives of 25 European 🇪🇺 countries. The member representatives accepted 3 new member organisations to ECLA extending the pan-European network to more than 75 000 in-house counsel. We welcome our three newest members:

📍 The Bar Association of Barcelona – Il·lustre Col·legi de l’Advocacia de Barcelona (ICAB)
📍Corporate Lawyers Association of North Macedonia – Македонска асоцијација на корпоративни правници
📍Association of Company Lawyers of the Slovak Republic – Únia podnikových právnikov SR

Furthermore ECLA re-elected Mark Cockerill, Silvia Bonacossa, Waldemar Koper to serve another term as vice-presidents of the executive board. The General Assembly also welcomes the Hungarian Bar Association as an observer to the association.

We thank our fantastic host the Law Society of Ireland and its president for his welcome speech and hospitality Eamon Harrington as well as Alison Bradshaw, Caroline Dee-Brown and Louise Campbell. Many thanks also to our representatives Pieter de Waal, Claudia Biedermann, Carsten Hornecker, Max Gröning, Víctor Gamero Cabo, Micaela Cattaneo, Heidi Aasheim, Hanne Heide-Krüger, Johan Fagerlund Sjöberg, Julie Dutordoir, Simon Vander Putten, Marie Brejchova, Nicolas Vergne, Špela Ajdišek, Dr Yannis Tzortzis, Ivan Petrushevski, Ana Hadzieva Angelovska, Ana Zakovska, ICC, Tomasz Sztyber, Stephanie Fougou, Laure Lavorel, Richard Bacek, Eric Lennerth, Marcus M. Schmitt, Marten Männis, Chiara Catti, Botond Ungváry, Lucia Čabová, Tuomas Rytkönen, Ana Cristina Delgado and many more…

See you in Madrid on 15/16 September for ECLA’s annual conference – The 42nd Anniversary General Counsel Forum Europe…and stay tuned for more exciting developments…

 

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