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WORLD RECOGNITION of DISTINGUISHED GENERAL COUNSEL GUEST OF HONOR: Dr. Claudia Junker General Counsel, Deutsche Telekom AG Copyright © 2018 Directors Roundtable WORLD RECOGNITION of DISTINGUISHED GENERAL COUNSEL THE SPEAKERS Dr. Claudia Junker Dr. Astrid Krueger Dr. Thomas Gruetzner General Counsel, Deutsche Partner, Allen & Overy LLP Partner, Baker & McKenzie Telekom AG Dr. Christof Jaeckle Dr. Burkhart Goebel Dr. Jens Liese Partner, Hengeler Mueller Partner, Hogan Lovells LLP Partner, Noerr LLP (The biographies of the speakers are presented at the end of this transcript. Further information about the Directors Roundtable can be found at our Website, directorsroundtable.com.) TO THE READER General Counsel are more important than ever in history. Boards of Directors look increasingly to them to enhance financial and business strategy, compliance, and integrity of corporate operations. In recognition of the achievements of our distinguished guest of honor and her colleagues, we presented Dr. Claudia Junker and the Legal Department of Deutsche Telekom with the leading global honor for General Counsel and Law Departments. Deutsche Telekom is a leading global telecommunications company. Dr. Junker’s address focused on key issues facing the General Counsel of a major multinational corporation, including diversity in the boardroom. The panelists’ additional topics included mergers and acquisitions; intellectual property; legal technology; diversity; regulations; and corporate governance. The Directors Roundtable is a civic group which organizes the preeminent worldwide programming for Directors and their advisors including General Counsel. Jack Friedman Directors Roundtable Chairman Fall 2017 2 Copyright © 2018 Directors Roundtable WORLD RECOGNITION of DISTINGUISHED GENERAL COUNSEL Dr. Claudia Junker has been the General (including M&A). During that time, she Counsel and head of the legal department often worked for Deutsche Telekom. From of Deutcshe Tekom since November, 2010. 2008 until she stepped into her current posi- tion she was a partner in an international Since 2012, Dr. Junker has also taught at law fi rm. Cologne University. She published reg- ularly as a co-author of a commentary on Since 2007, Dr. Junker has also spe- corporate law. cialized as a lawyer for commercial and corporate law (Fachanwältin für Handels- und She is also active in the executive commit- Gesellschaftsrecht), and since 2007, she has Dr. Claudia Junker tee of the German Federal Association served as a certifi ed compliance offi cer. of In-house Lawyers (Bundesverband der General Counsel Unternehmensjuristen), the European Gen- She studied law in Germany, Switzerland eral Counsel Association, the Committee (Geneva) and the U.S. She has a Ph.D. for Economy and Law (Arbeitskreis Wirtschaft from Heidelberg University and an LL.M. und Recht) and the professional law commit- from Cornell University. tee of the German Lawyers’ Association. Before joining Deutsche Telekom, Dr. Junker worked for many years as a lawyer in private practice and specialized in corporate law Deutsche Telekom AG Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s employees throughout the world, the com- leading integrated telecommunications pany generated revenue of 73,1 billion companies, with some 165 million mobile Euros in the 2016 fi nancial year, about 66 customers, 28.5 million fi xed-network lines, percent of it outside Germany. and 18.5 million broadband lines. In order to continue the company’s success, The company provides fi xed-network/broad- it is already evolving from a traditional tele- band, mobile communications, Internet, phone company into an entirely new kind and IPTV products and services for consum- of service company. Our core business, i.e., ers, and information and communication the operation and sale of networks and technology (ICT) solutions for business and connections, remains the basis. But at the corporate customers. same time, the company is proactively com- mitting to business areas that open up new Deutsche Telekom is present in more than growth opportunities. 50 countries. With a staff of some 218,300 Fall 2017 3 Copyright © 2018 Directors Roundtable WORLD RECOGNITION of DISTINGUISHED GENERAL COUNSEL KAREN TODD: Good morning and wel- of the spirit of Cornell Law — a lawyer in the come! My name is Karen Todd, and I’m best sense, and among the finest our school the Executive Director and Chief Operating can call its own. Congratulations. Officer of the Directors Roundtable. We are DR. CLAUDIA JUNKER: Thanks a lot! very pleased that you’re here today. [APPLAUSE] The Directors Roundtable is a civic group KAREN TODD: And now, I’m going to whose mission is to organize the finest pro- turn it over to our Guest of Honor, Claudia. gramming on a national and global basis for Boards of Directors and their advisors, DR. CLAUDIA JUNKER: That was very which include General Counsel. Over the flattering. If he knew me better, he would have last 26 years, this has resulted in more than found other words, less flattering. [JOKING] 800 programs on six continents. Our chair- man, Jack Friedman, started this series after My husband, who is here somewhere speaking with corporate directors who told [LAUGHTER] he said, “Why do you work him that it was rare for a large corporation on this speech? Why don’t you just make a to be validated for the good they do. He really short one? And that could be, ‘They studied law in Germany, Switzerland and decided to provide a forum for executives gave the prize to the right people — let’s the U.S., receiving degrees from Heidelberg and corporate counsel to talk about their have the drinks!’” [LAUGHTER] companies, the accomplishments in which University and Cornell University. they take pride, and how they have over- I’m afraid I will use this opportunity to talk I have a letter from the Dean of Cornell come the obstacles of running a business a full thirty minutes about the DT Legal Law that I would like to share with you. in today’s changing world. Department. DR. CLAUDIA JUNKER: What a sur- We honor General Counsel and their I’m going to do my speech in two parts: half prise! [LAUGHTER] Law Departments, so they may share their is on general topics I have put under the successful actions and strategies with the heading, “Innovations at DT Legal.” Half will KAREN TODD: Directors Roundtable community, via today’s be about topics that we are currently looking program and the full-color transcript docu- at, and one topic for each department. ment that will be made available to about Dear Dr. Junker: 100,000 leaders worldwide. That is why the As the Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Since July, we are sitting in open space. We program today is going to be in English. Law School, I am pleased to extend my have pictures here. All of DT Legal knows congratulations to you upon your recognition how it is; all the others can look at the pic- Today, it is our pleasure to honor by the Directors Roundtable for your work tures. [SLIDE SHOWING OPEN SPACE Dr. Claudia Junker and the Legal Depart- as General Counsel of Deutsche Telekom. OFFICES] You might think — well, not you, ment of Deutsche Telekom. Joining who are sitting there, [REFERRING TO As the leader of a highly-skilled expert Claudia this morning are Distinguished THE MANY DT LEGAL COLLEAGUES staff, you can take special pride in the Panelists: Dr. Astrid Krueger with Allen & IN THE AUDIENCE] but all the others legal services your team has provided to Overy, Dr. Thomas Gruetzner of Baker & might think, how does this work? How do corporate management and Deutsche McKenzie, Dr. Christof Jaeckle from Henge- we maintain confidentiality? How do we Telekom’s Board of Directors. Your strategic ler Mueller, Dr. Burkhart Goebel with not disturb each other all day long? I can guidance, professional expertise and critical Hogan Lovells, and Dr. Jens Liese of Noerr. say, it works. For ages, I would have said, oversight enable corporate managers to “Lawyers in open space — no way.” Yes — function effectively and ethically, and help to In addition to Claudia’s work at Deutsche people in the audience are nodding. And ensure that Deutsche Telekom will continue Telekom, she is also a published author and how does it work? It works. [LAUGHTER] to prosper in the complex environment of teaches at the University of Cologne. She What are my colleagues supposed to say? global business. is active in the European General Counsel [LAUGHTER] Association, the Committee for Economy Your achievement as General Counsel merits and Law (Arbeitskreis Wirtschaft und Recht), our esteem at Cornell Law School. I am proud Before we moved, I heard from other and the Professional Law Committee of to celebrate your achievement by this writing, General Counsel that they have young law- the German Lawyers’ Association. She has and gratified to regard you as an exemplar yers and they don’t want to sit in a small Fall 2017 4 Copyright © 2018 Directors Roundtable WORLD RECOGNITION of DISTINGUISHED GENERAL COUNSEL office anymore; they are saying, “This is like going to prison every morning.” So we are not going to prison every morning anymore. But we have some rules so that things go smoothly. At first, I was laughed at — law- yers — you need rules, of course. Now, we are envied for the rules. One of the rules is that in our office space, we have a quiet zone, a mixed zone and a conference zone. In the quiet zone, you cannot talk, and you cannot make phone calls, you have to go out to do that. In the mixed zone, you are allowed to have small talks and small calls with a low voice. In the conference zone, you can do whatever you want — maybe you want to dance on the table — no.
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