Christophe Laurent

Current

• Legal Counsel, EMEA Contracts and Negotiations Leader at Lenovo

Past

• Bid Manager at Atos Origin
• EMEA Strategic Negotiator at HP
• Advisory Contract Specialist at IBM

• Legal and Tax Advisor at Fedis

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Education

• EHSAL
• Universiteit Gent
• Sint Barbara

• Sancta-Maria

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Christophe Laurent’s Summary

International legal counsel with substantial in-house legal experience and with a sound business understanding. High premium on providing preemptive legal support in English, French or Dutch. Focus on drafting and negotiation of large international IT (hardware and services) contracts.

Christophe Laurent’s Specialties:

Contract drafting and negotiation
International team leader and coordinator
Identify, analyse and mitigate commercial, financial, technical and legal risks

Christophe Laurent’s Experience

• Legal Counsel, EMEA Contracts and Negotiations Leader

  Lenovo

  (Public Company; LNVGY; Computer Hardware industry)

  August 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

  Actively support the business where and when needed in all legal areas, focusing on contracts. Key elements include:
  • provide legal assistance, coordination and supervision for legal matters in EMEA
  • create/coordinate/lead the C&N EMEA team to ensure appropriate resources are allocated as required and report the activities of that team to the global contracts function
  • set the targets for the C&N EMEA team
  • review, negotiate and draft various contracts
  • coordinate and supervise outside legal counsel
  • draft contracts taking into account legal as well as commercial requirements
  • protect the company through accurate contract wording
  • develop new (standard) contracts and implement locally in EMEA
  • balance risks and adapt the contractual approach accordingly

• Bid Manager

  Atos Origin

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ATO; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  Responsible for the full coordination of the bid activities (focus on IT outsourcing bids) of Atos Origin Belgium. Key elements were:
  • analyse customer needs and design solution to answer these
  • lead the bid team
  • bring together the legal, technical, financial and commercial elements in a well structured commercial bid
  • manage the whole bid process from opportunity identification to signature of the contract
  • provide guidance on the management of signed contracts

• EMEA Strategic Negotiator

  HP

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2004 — May 2004 (5 months)

  Responsible for the negotiation of major IT outsourcing deals in EMEA. Key elements were:
  • draft contracts taking into account legal as well as commercial requirements;
  • lead the contract negotiations with customers;
  • participate in the whole project cycle (from opportunity identification to completion);
  • protect of the company through accurate contract wording;
  • develop new (standard) contracts;
  • balance risks and adapt the contractual approach accordingly.

• Advisory Contract Specialist

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 1999 — January 2004 (4 years 10 months)

  Responsible for the negotiation of major IT outsourcing deals in Belgium (as well as some international contracts). Key elements were:
  • draft contracts taking into account legal as well as commercial requirements;
  • lead the contract negotiations with customers;
  • participate in the whole project cycle (from opportunity identification to completion);
  • protect of the company through accurate contract wording;
  • develop new (standard) contracts;
  • balance risks and adapt the contractual approach accordingly.

• Legal and Tax Advisor

  Fedis

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Retail industry)

  August 1997 — April 1999 (1 year 9 months)

  • provide legal and tax advise to the members of Fedis
  • follow-up of law evolution
  • follow-up of actual matters (euro, Y2K, …)
  • lobbying
  • author for a weekly newspaper
  • secretary of an association within Fedis

Christophe Laurent’s Education

• EHSAL

  Corporate Finance 1998 — 1999

• Universiteit Gent

  Law , Commercial Law , 1992 — 1997

• Sint Barbara

  1985 — 1991

• Sancta-Maria

Additional Information

Christophe Laurent’s Interests:

contract negotiation, legal adviser, computer technology, contract management, management

Christophe Laurent’s Groups:

IACCM

•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    Legal IT Network
•    Lenovo Alumni Group
•    Alumni Universiteit Gent
•    Alumni Sint Barbara College
•    IACCM
•    European Contract Managers
•    Belgian Lawyers
•    IBM Legal Alumni

Christophe Laurent’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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