MOSCOW, July 25 (RAPSI) - CEE Legal Matters, a print and online legal publication dedicated to Central Eastern Europe, in cooperation with RAPSI is powering the 2014 GC Best Practices survey.

The main goal is to generate a report which will centralize best practices of GCs/Heads of Legal revolving around several critical aspects such as:
- building and managing an internal legal team
- working with external counsel
- managing compliance within your company
- and others.

The survey was based on the input of an Advisory Board of General Counsel and Heads of Legal from the region. The members of the Advisory Board are

Florin Dumbrava: Legal Director at Dalkia Romania (Bucharest)
Oraz Dursyev: Legal Director, Compliance Officer CEE at Anheuser-Busch InBev (Moscow)
Agnieszka Dziegielewska-Jonczyk: Country Legal Counsel at Hewlett-Packard (Warsaw)
Gordon Finlayson: General Counsel at HBO Europe (Budapest)
Pal Kara: Vice-president for Legal and General Counsel (Chief Legal Counsel) at MOL Group (Budapest)
Andras Mohacsi: Global Commercial Compliance Counsel at British American Tobacco (London).

The survey should take around 10 minutes to participate in. If you decide to participate, you will have an option to fill in your e-mail and/or mailing address to receive complimentary electronic or hard copies of the report. We are planing to collect data until the 28th of July and expect over 3000 GCs to be involved in the research.

The survey is online here.

All data collected will be kept completely confidential, will not be shared with any third parties, and will be used strictly to generate the mentioned report. The results will be shared only as percentages and participants to the survey will not be identified in any manner.

The current sponsors of the project are: Edwards Wildman, CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz, Freshfields, and Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii.