Peter Edwards brings 25 years of broad experience as in-house counsel in domestic and global environments. He served as general counsel of the multi-national public companies Celanese Corporation (specialty plastics and chemicals), Baxalta Incorporated (biopharmaceutical spin-off from Baxter), and Mallinckrodt plc (specialty pharmaceuticals). Peter also lived and worked overseas in Brussels as general counsel for Solvay Pharmaceuticals.

In his earlier career, he held in-house positions of increasing responsibility within Mettler-Toledo, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company. Peter began his career as an associate in a large private law firm.

An inspiring, thoughtful, and strategic leader, Peter’s peers and the boards he has served view him as a high-impact advisor. His experience spans public company spin-offs and high-profile M&A to building high-performing legal teams while also providing innovative and effective results across the full range of critical legal challenges.

Christian sits on FLI’s ‘Global Projects Team’. He has a wealth of experience in dealing with and managing complex multi-jurisdictional cross-border matters and has led projects spanning over 60+ jurisdictions.

Most notably, Christian is known for his contributions in a variety of multi-jurisdictional regulatory and licensing projects involving novel technologies, cross-border M&A transactions, real-estate audits/acquisitions, large-scale complex EU-immigration support, cross-border debt-collections, FCPA compliance investigations, foreign litigation and hotels/hospitality tax optimization projects in Central and Latin America.

With both a science and legal background, Christian’s eye for detail and focus on quality enables him to provide Client’s with top-end support and service across the board.