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Helge Köhlbrandt is highly regarded for his ‘absolutely outstanding management of the currently largest antitrust proceeding in Germany’, a great achievement and not an easy task given the enormous media attention. But he has also made significant changes internally such as repositioning the legal department which now works ‘more closely with our business partners and is therefore able to deliver tailor-made and solution-oriented advice’. What this results in is ‘inevitably prevention-oriented legal advice rather than advice focusing on disputes and problematic cases’. However, the major challenge which he has successfully overcome, has been achieving a change in terms of ‘mindset’. His success is also based on his dedicated focus on coaching and personnel development. Köhlbrandt wants to work with law firms that ‘understand our business and its individual entities and deliver commercial and pragmatic advice’.