Challenges and success: A Q&A with Foxconn Technology
Helming a team of over 100 lawyers, General Counsel of Foxconn Technology Group (China’s largest private employer), Sterry Fang shares about his department’s structure and its commitment to developing and implementing a “well-being” programme for its employees
Issue: September 2011
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Q&A
What are the key responsibilities of your role, and how does this fit in with the rest of the legal function at Foxconn?
As head of the Global Legal Division (the Division) and holding an advisory role to senior management, my responsibilities have evolved to include providing strategic and business-oriented solutions to legal issues, providing compliance and regulatory advice, overseeing risk control and corporate governance, and managing and reviewing legal services from external counsel. I strike a balance between functional leadership and legal advocacy, and have divided my time between them equally.
We cultivate a practice that coalesces the best of both the eastern and the western worlds. It is a judicious exercise of corporate risk management with an aim to have the concepts of legal professionalism defined and aspired to internationally. First and foremost is the concept of account-centralisation, where selected counsels are assigned to accounts where legal services...
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