Team size: Nine

Jurisdictions your role covers: All DLG Group jurisdictions.

What are the most significant cases or transactions that your legal team has recently been involved in?

The DLG Group’s Legal, Agri & Nutrition, Compliance and Insurance department is managed by the legal team in the Danish parent company, DLG Amba, and its German subsidiary, Team SE. However, our jurisdiction covers all of the group’s companies and activities.

Within the legal department, our work is largely traditional, but our aim is to provide legal protection for group companies, support the business with advice and legal risk management, and act as a strategic sparring partner and trusted advisor for the management and the operational business units. Our areas of expertise include corporate and commercial law, contract drafting and negotiation covering both purchasing and sales, assistance to our M&A department, tenancy law and real estate, IPR, and dispute resolution etc.

In terms of compliance, we have defined five areas of responsibility covering competition law, GDPR, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, and AML. Our aim is to raise awareness of, and ensure compliance with, both international and EU rules, as well as local legislation. This is achieved by issuing internal policies and training employees, including through e-learning and on-site training. We have also developed an internal compliance organisation and a reporting tool that we use for ongoing reporting, follow-up on action plans and so on.

The insurance team has the overall responsibility for ensuring relevant risks to be covered by insurance including taking out the relevant insurance policies to ensure that the DLG Group always maintains a reasonable balance between risk exposure and insurance coverage. In recent years, we have focused on areas where we can optimize and achieve synergies, including by taking out group insurance policies rather than separate insurance policies. For example, this could involve taking out one or more insurance policies through our German subsidiary and the German insurance market, rather than solely considering what can be taken out directly through the parent company and the Scandinavian(international insurance market, to the extent that this is competitive and expedient.

Given that DLG launched a full-scale transformation programme in 2025, we have experienced additional pressure to contribute to new ways of structuring our business. This generally requires us to be flexible and innovative within our areas of responsibility, while also considering risk management, compliance and security when implementing new or changed processes. We must therefore consider both the pros and cons while ensuring governance and risk management in a fast-paced transition process.