
Doing business internationally is daily business to most GCs. However, navigating the global business landscape is becoming more challenging and complicated due to geopolitics, health crises, regulatory expansion, globalisation, risk convergence, cost pressures, and corporate innovation, to name a few. At the General Counsel Fall Conference 2022 we will share knowledge on how to overcome these challenges and focus on your role as General Counsel. We will also present the results of the General Counsel NL Benchmark Survey 2022 during a GC Panel Discussion and weigh the results and facts in our conversations that day during the 12 GCN Roundtables that we have organised.
- Date: Thursday, October, 6th from 12.00 pm till 06.00 pm
- Location: HQ AEGON The Hague, Aegonplein 50 - Parking available
- GC Panel Discussion: Emily Barker I Prosus, Alexander van Liefland I AEGON International, Thomas Conijn | Samsung Electronics Benelux and Margreet Hoekstra | T-Mobile NL
- Keynote Bjarne P. Tellmann, General Counsel & Member Executive Team at Haleon (22,000 employees across 170 markets) and author of ‘Building an Oustanding Legal Team’
- Results of the General Counsel Benchmark Survey 2022
general counsel panel discussion
Emily Barker
Head of Legal
PROSUS
Alexander van Liefland
General Counsel
AEGON International

Thomas Conijn
Head of Legal & Compliance
Samsung Electronics Benelux

Margreet Hoekstra
Director Legal, Regulatory Affairs & Compliance
T-Mobile NL
Keynote
Bjarne is General Counsel & Member Executive Team at Haleon, the world’s largest consumer healthcare business. He worked across Europe, Asia and the U.S. in senior executive capacities with companies like Pearson, The Coca-Cola Company and Kimberly-Clark. He is originally from Norway but lived in a lot of places. His father was a diplomat, so he grew up moving around. Before Bjarne went to university, he was a professional actor and studied at a conservatory. He started his legal career at the law firms of Sullivan & Cromwell and White & Case.
Bjarne’s book ‘Building an Outstanding Legal Team: Battle-Tested Strategies from a General Counsel’ came out in 2017 and is considered as the manual for General Counsel to articulate a framework that helps in-house legal leaders to accelerate their performance.

Program
- 12.00 pm
Registration & GCN Networking Lunch
- 12.45 pm
Welcome by GCN and Alexander van Liefland, General Counsel AEGON International
- 1.00 pm
GCN General Counsel Panel Discussion: We will discuss the results General Counsel NL Benchmark Survey 2022 and will reflect on some current international challenges for GCs.
- 1.45 pm
Bjarne Tellmann: International Challenges for General Counsel
- 2.30 pm
GCN Networking Break
- 3.00 pm
GCN Roundtables I Part 1
- 4.00 pm
GCN Roundtables I Part 2
- 5.00 pm
Drinks & Networking
registration
location

HQ AEGON
Aegonplein 50, The Hague
Directions: click here
Parking: you can park underneath the HQ Aegon or at the parking building behind the Aegon office.
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