Australian Corporate Lawyer - Summer 2018

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ACC GLOBAL UPDATE
ACC AUSTRALIA CORPORATE ALLIANCE PARTNERS
ACC Annual Meeting 2018 a Success
ACC’s 2018 Annual Meeting (#ACCAM2018)
was held in Austin, Texas from October
21 to 24. Over 3,600 in-house counsel,
representing global brands, including
Microsoft, Booz Allen Hamilton, Disney,
Exxon Mobil, Capital One, along with
exhibitors and speakers were in attendance,
and thankfully stayed, despite a temporary
drinking water crisis in Austin.
The meeting featured a host of panel
discussions, roundtables, workshops and
covered a range of topics extending across
budgeting for small legal departments,
Artificial Intelligence and the future of
in-house counsel, negotiating tactics,
workplace diversity, and limiting liability in
global operations.
The 2019 Annual Meeting will be held in
Phoenix, Arizona from October 27-30, 2019.
ACC Elects Simon A. Fish as Board Chair,
Adrian Gross to Board
Last month, ACC named the 2019 officers of
the global Board of Directors. Chairing the
Board will be Simon A. Fish, Executive Vice
President and General Counsel at the BMO
Financial Group in Canada.
Mr. Fish is responsible for BMO's legal,
regulatory and compliance affairs. This
includes corporate governance, mergers
and acquisitions, capital markets and
banking regulation, and complex litigation.
He is also responsible for the bank's
ethics, ombudsman, sustainability, and
investigations functions. He serves as
adviser to the chair of the board of directors
and is a member of the bank's executive
committee. He chairs the bank's reputation
risk committee, and the environmental,
social and corporate governance
committee. He also serves as BMO's
executive diversity champion and serves on
the boards of a number of non-profit and
charitable organisations.
Other directors include Vice Chair Anneliese
Reinhold, General Counsel and Senior Vice
President of regulatory affairs at du, in the
United Arab Emirates; and, among others,
the antipodean Adrian Gross, General
Counsel at Bauer Media. Mr. Gross is a past
director of ACC Australia.
“We are pleased to welcome our most
globally diverse class of leaders to date,” said
Veta T. Richardson, ACC President and CEO.
“The breadth and depth of perspectives
offered by the 2019 board of directors will
greatly enhance ACC's ability to serve inhouse
counsel around the world.” a
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