About

Gerhard Brand has been head of legal & compliance at PERI since 2012 and the ‘very good lawyer and great analytical mind’ has within a short time succeeded in setting up a powerful team. His in-house team covers the legal matters of a company with over €1bn turnover and subsidiaries in 56 countries. Brand also benefitted from his 13 years’ experience as head of legal at Vaillant Group. Within two years he managed to implement binding governance rules company-wide, set up a functioning compliance management system and has standardised how board decisions are communicated internally. He has also developed standard contracts for German and international projects and established rules as to how these are being used. A particular highlight during his time at Vaillant has been the €1.1bn acquisition of Hepworth Group, as well as the successful dealing with several international product liability matters which were of wide-ranging commercial significance for the company. In his current role Brand is fortunate ‘to mostly be able to implement my views as to how a legal department should operate’.