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From: jimtracker19/27/2007 10:45:05 AM
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Nokia legal chief dies in hotel accident
Author: michelle.madsen@legalweek.com

Published: 27/09/2007 02:35

legalweek.com

Nokia’s chief legal officer, Carl Belding, has died following an accident in a hotel in Switzerland last week. He died last Friday (21 September) after falling from his hotel balcony while on a business trip. He leaves a wife and two children.
Ranked by peers as one of the top general counsel in Europe, Belding was the international head of Nokia’s legal team of more than 150 lawyers, operating out of 130 countries.

Belding joined the company as its chief legal officer, replacing outgoing general counsel Ursula Ranin, in January 2006 after 20 years at IBM. He was the first non-American to take the role of general counsel at the tech giant, heading up its legal operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

A Nokia spokesperson said: “His death has been a great loss for all of us. Carl was a sharp legal mind, a great colleague and a good friend.”

Louise Bentland, the legal head of the company’s enterprise solutions business, will act as Nokia’s temporary legal director while the company looks for a replacement.

Earlier this month Belding spoke up for Nokia in relation to a patent infringement dispute with troubled US tech outfit Qualcomm, saying that his company was confident that Qualcomm’s claims would be proven unfounded.

Nokia is the world’s largest manufacturer of telephone handsets and has annual revenues of €41bn (£29bn
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