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Michael Rummer heads the legal and insurance department at EnBW, a listed energy provider and after E.ON and RWE Germany’s third biggest with 20,000 employees and a turnover of over €19bn. Rummer has kept the department organised in subject matter expert teams but increased the ‘focus on adding value to the company’ and emphasised the cultivation of legal management skills which he understands as the ‘steering and directing of projects and external lawyers’. Highlights were high volume restructuring matters that were covered entirely in-house, but also complex M&A projects which are a regular occurrence for Rummer. A particular challenge is the ‘management of employees’, but he enjoys being provided with the ‘opportunity to creatively design and structure’. Law firms have to ensure ‘growth in terms of capacity to maintain the service’.