When it comes to a business and corporate management, compliance refers to the company obeying all of the legal laws and regulations in regards to how they manage the business, their staff, and their treatment towards their consumers. The concept of compliance is to make sure that corporations act responsibly.

With globalization, the business environment is also facing much greater challenges of governance, regulatory compliance issues. As the issues demand greater and timely attention, the legal function is evolving rapidly and organizations are feeling the necessity of building up a strong in-house team of senior counsels and legal experts.

A Chief Legal Officer (CLO) is a publicly traded as company's most powerful legal executive. The Chief Legal Officer (CLO) is an expert and leader who helps the company minimize its legal risks by advising the company's other officers and board members on any major legal and regulatory issues the company confronts, such as litigation risks. The CLO may also be a member of the company's operating committee and is overseen by the CEO. The CLO oversees the company's in-house attorneys.

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CEO Global Executive Search has conducted many searches to help such organizations recruit top legal talent to handle challenges of regulatory and corporate governance.

Our Expert team looks for General Counsel Candidates who can proactively identify and defuse risk, and who understand how regulators think. Our search comprises of aspiring General Counsels having a multicultural perspective, polyglotive trait, and working knowledge of differences in laws and regulations across countries in order to identify where local business customs and the extraterritorial reach other national laws may contradict one another.