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Alex Potlog Becomes Legal Director at AbbVie in London

Alex Potlog Becomes Legal Director at AbbVie in London

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AbbVie has promoted Romanian lawyer Alex Potlog in the role of Legal Director for the UK and Ireland.

As part of the Potlog’s role, he will be responsible for strategic legal support to the business teams covering a broad range of commercial, competition, regulatory, and privacy matters.

Potlog started his career as a Summer Associate at PwC in Romania in 2007. He moved to London in 2008, where he worked as a Summer Associate at Linklaters, and then joined DLA Piper, where he worked as a Junior Associate from 2009 to 2012, Associate from2012 to 2015, Managing Associate from 2015 to 2017, and Senior Associate/ Lead Lawyer from May 2017 to September 2017. In 2014, he worked as a Seconded Lawyer at GSK, where he stayed for two months. He moved back to Europe in 2018, working as an Associate Director and Legal Director for Developed Markets at Astellas EMEA, prior to joining AbbVie.

Originally reported by CEE In-House Matters.

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Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații is a full-service independent law firm, employing cross-disciplinary teams of lawyers, insolvency practitioners, tax consultants, IP counsellors, economists and staff members. It also operates a secondary law office in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), and has a ‘best-friend’ agreement with a leading law firm in the Republic of Moldova. In addition, thanks to the firm’s dedicated Foreign Desks, the team provides the full range of services to international investors seeking to gain a foothold or expand their existing operations in Romania. Since 2019, the firm and its tax arm are collaborating with Andersen Global in Romania.

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii is providing legal services in every aspect of business, covering all major areas of practice: corporate and M&A; litigation and international arbitration; corporate tax; public procurement; TMT; employment; insurance; banking and finance; capital markets; competition; healthcare and pharmaceutical; energy and natural resources; environmental; intellectual property; real estate; regulatory legal services.

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii is a First-Tier law firm in all international legal directories and a multiple award-winning law firm both locally and internationally. It received the CEE Deal of the Year Award (DOTY Awards 2021) and the Law Firm of the Year Award: Romania (IFLR Europe Awards 2021). 

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