Legal Risk Management: status 2021, 7th Annual Conference

DAY 1: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Experience in building an effective Legal Department. System for setting KPIs for Legal Department employees

Elena Kabalkina, Director of Legal Affairs, Southeast Europe Region

Johnson & Johnson

Corporate Legal Department creation strategy
Legal Department structure: employees, distribution of duties and interaction procedure
Legal Department document flow regulations
When to involve external consultants to increase work efficiency?
Departments and KPIs
Example of KPIs for the Legal Unit Departments Heads

Efficient Legal Department and business units interaction model

Kuznetsova Lyubov, Head of the Department of Legal Support of Projects and Foreign Corporate Structure

Norilsk Nickel

Main role, task and value of the Legal Department
System of interaction of the Legal Department with business units: basic principles of organization
What is the Legal Department strength?
Assessing the Legal Department efficiency?

IT as a tool to streamline the Legal Department work

Dmitry Pesnev, Head of Legal Service

Sberbank life insurance

Roadmap \ What and how we do it
Stages of choosing directions for the legal processes automation
Automation and structuring of the legal department work processes

Contemporary approach to setting KPIs for the Legal Department Head subordinates

Vereshchagina Tatiana, Head of Legal Support Department

Cherkizovo Group

Actual challenges for the Corporate Legal Department in transformation and change age
Key performance indicators (KPI) of a lawyer
Motivation system for employees reporting to the legal director
Tools for managing tasks and assignments
Examples of possible quantitative KPIs for lawyers

Digitalization and its role in the Legal Department transformation

Olga Trifonova, Director of the Legal Department - Deputy General Director

Tinkoff Insurance

Selection of priority areas for the Legal Department digitalization
Digital systems analysis, selection and implementation
Legal Department digitalization results: New analytical tools, level of risk assessment and decision quality
Legal Department automation benefits for related divisions
Changing the Legal Head’s role in managing the performance of the Legal Department and Company

Ways to reduce antitrust pricing risks

Vyacheslav Martemyanov, Head of the Department for Legal Support of Administrative Proceedings and Settlement of Intra-Group Disputes

Lukoil

Legal analysis of pricing process risk areas and ways to minimize them
Legal Department role in interacting with the Company business units (price decisions preliminary and subsequent control)
Ways to protect yourself from monopoly (economically unjustified) prices accusations

Features of attracting external consultants to prevent and minimize the consequences of legal risks

Voronin Roman, Managing Partner, Attorney at Law

Law Office "RI-Consulting"

Specifics of transferring certain Legal Departments functions to a Shared Service Center

Mason Margarita, Director of Legal Affairs

Coca-Cola HBC Russia

Feasibility and prerequisites for creating an SSC
The need to build a central Legal Department and automate individual process components
Structure, qualifications

Legal risks associated with the IP creation, use, and commercialization

Ksenia Bychkova, Head of Games & Esports

Mail.Ru

Creating and registering IP in various jurisdiction, selecting defence strategy
IP policy in international Company
IP legal risks in digital environment
IP cultural development in company

Regulatory risks managements associated with GR-activities: Legal Department role

Mazurevskaya Marina, Deputy General Director for Legal Issues and Work with Government Agencies

Nanolek

GR regulation specifics in Russia
GR lawyer: Do we need one in the Legal Department and what knowledge shall he/she possess?
GR lawyer in an organization
Modern tools for implementing GR system in the current Legal Department regulations and business processes

Claims and litigation management system automation

Dmitry Melnikov, Head of Legal Support for Customer Relations,

Inchcape

Automation prerequisites
Challenges due to the lack of automation and what automation solutions to choose
What opportunities does automation open up
Automation stages and directions
Results achieved and lessons learned

Business Risk Management: Legal Department role and limits of responsibility

Ryzhkova Elena, head of practice, practice of support of regional, retail sales and customer service

GAZPROMNEFT-EXPERT SOLUTIONS

Types of risks associated with commercial activities and how they are managed by the Legal Department (manual labor vs automation)
Legal Department limits of influence on business decisions
Commercial risk event: Legal Department high point or failure?

Remote employees labor regulation: Legal risks and law enforcement practice

Okuneva Natalia, Director of the Legal Department

UniCredit Bank Russia

Remote labor signs Significant differences of remote labor from other employment forms
Organization of remote employees’ labor protection specifics Job security for remote employees
Ways to control the job duties fulfillment. How to run a document flow with a remote employee?
Remote employee prosecution and dismissal: Actual issues
Administrative Practice of the State Labor Inspectorate for Remote Employees
Judicial enforcement practice - current issues - of remote labor

Tax clause in the contract as a way to protect against an unfair contractor

Kirillov Dmitry, senior associate, attorney, tax practice

How does a tax clause work?
Modern approach of the tax authorities to tax clause
Judicial practice on the application of tax clauses
What should be considered when formulating a tax clause in a contract?

DAY 2: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Legal risks assessment system: Practical development and implementation experience

Elena Kucheryavaya, Director of Legal Affairs, EMEA, Personal Data in Russia,

Lifescan USA

Methods and processes required to detect legal risks
Analysis of the Company main operations: characteristic and uncharacteristic for the type of activity
Identification and classification of legal risks
Creation of a legal risk map, running activities to mitigate legal risks

Efficient compliance system as part of a Legal Department: a lawyer's view

Glubokaya Yulia, Head of Legal and Compliance Department,

Hitachi ABB Power Grids

What is compliance - lawyer’s view
Methodological basis and content of compliance program from the point of legal risks
To what extent should lawyers supervise compliance procedures?
Combining the legal and compliance Company departments: pros, cons, consequences

Preparing for inspections by controlling and supervising authorities

Mochalina Svetlana, Director of the Risk Management Department,

L’Occitane Rus

Russian legislation related to inspections
Grounds for inspection and other procedures performed by the controlling and supervising authorities
Minimizing risks of surprise inspection
Employees’ actions to minimize negative consequences of controlling authority members visit
Order of appeal against the controlling authority inspection results

Electronic document flow when building communications with contractors: new risks, new opportunities and legal significance

Allaliev Artur, Director of the Legal Department,

Kia Motors Russia

Advantages and disadvantages of switching to electronic document management with business partners
Electronic document flow as a tool for monitoring contracts and reducing the conflict situations risk when interacting with contractors
How to convince your contracts to switch to electronic document management?
Engaging contractors to work in digital systems: what type of digital signature to choose?
Exchange of digital primary documents with contractors
Transfer of the digital system key to a third party: risks

Building an effective contract management department

Kireeva Julia, Head of the Center for Legal Support of Contractual Work, Department of Methodology and Automation,

Cherkizovo Group

Group main directions in contract work
Company divisions and employees involved in contractual work– Duties distribution and the interaction procedure
Document flow algorithm in the contract work field
When do we engage external consultants to improve the contractual work efficiency?
Contract Department reports and efficiency assessment

A practical example of legal risk management in the Monetka Trading Network

Doloban Maxim, Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs,

Monetka

Organization of the Risk Management process in TN Monetka.
Minimizing the risk of losses from government intervention: General characteristics
On-site inspections of suppliers
Internal control
Compensation for losses

Practical issues of ensuring Legal Department operations continuous improvement in Russia and Europe

Elena Belyaeva, Head of Legal Support for Business in the Europe Region,

Inchcape

The main "drivers" and innovative mechanisms for corporate Legal Department operations continuous improvement
Legal Department centralization or decentralization and building an efficient business-oriented organizational structure, depending on the current tasks
Legal Risk Matrix as an efficient mechanism for identifying, tracking and mitigating legal risks
Practical recommendations for developing a performance indicators system

Real estate lease agreement: the main legal risks of the tenant and their optimization

Malkina Victoria, Head of Operational Support, Legal Department,

Lamoda

Legal Department efficiency assessment: In focus

Pak Anastasia, Head of Legal Department,

Sovfrakht

What Legal Department can be considered efficient?
The main directions Legal Department efficiency assessment
What methods and approaches to efficiency assessment to choose?
Assessing the Legal Department organizational structure

Distressed corporate debt management: prevention of occurrence and legal methods of collection

Kochubeeva Maria, Director of the Department of Judicial Work,

Otto Group Russia

Essence and classification of receivables
Legal methods of receivables management
Receivables basic management and organizational principles and methods at the Enterprise
Legal tools for dealing with overdue and troubled receivables

Legal Department of the future - main trends and forecasts

Zhuchkova Olesya, head of legal support of financial products,

OZON

Global megatrends and their impact on the Legal Department
Evolutionary paths: Inevitable change in org. models and roles in the Legal Department
Digitalization and its role in the Legal Department transformation

Fight of independent creditors against de facto affiliated creditors and artificial debt when establishing claims in the Creditors’ Register

Domshenko Viktor, Head of the Department of Legal Defense,

Russian Post

Choosing a protection strategy for independent creditors: objections to claim inclusion into the register, challenging a judicial act, subordination of the creditor's claims
Indirect signs of the debtor and creditor actual affiliation
Restoration of the term for challenging a judicial act of an affiliated creditor
Standard of proof and distribution of burden of proof in disputes with affiliated creditors

Sanctions risks management in a group of companies

Ilya Shchipkov, Head of Compliance Department, Legal Directorate,

FESCO