strong> Team size: Global team of 15

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

The legal team of the Royal Unibrew Group is continuously involved in strategically important M&A deals as well as key commercial agreements where we focus on managing risk effectively while facilitating commercially agile decision making.

What factors influence your team’s decision to use external legal services versus handling matters in-house, and what criteria are used to evaluate their performance?

As a global legal team, we handle a vast variety of commercial and regulatory matters in-house, leveraging our close alignment with the business. Matters will, however, arise requiring a need for specialized or local law expertise which we do not have in-house and where the engagement of external legal services becomes relevant. We would generally work with a panel of external lawyers knowing our business and industry in depth and perform an evaluation based on the quality and commerciality of the advice provided, responsiveness, industry understanding, and cost efficiency, valuing those who act as pragmatic, strategic partners.

How does your team contribute to the overall business strategy of the company?

We strive to not just be a legal and risk management function, but rather to ensure that the legal team actively contributes to the overall business strategy. We therefore act as strategic partners to the business with early involvement engaging in planning, structuring commercial set-ups and agreements to ensure the best commercial outcome and resilience as well as supporting growth organically and through M&A and enabling market expansion. The true test of our team is that we are able to provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice and can assist our colleagues in moving fast and confidently while managing legal and reputational risk.