About

A highly capable legal professional, head of legal, procurement and analytics and services Dr Peter Macheiner established the legal department for SYNLAB group from scratch. Talking about one of his top career highlights, he says, ‘it was a very large and long lasting litigation involving several departments where I was able to combine legal advice with a very broad management task to get many involved persons with different seniority levels from different departments to co-operate in an excellent manner and to keep them motivated under extreme time pressure over a very long period of time to do the “one step more” to bring that litigation to an excellent success’. During the past few years Dr Macheiner has been involved in all major M&A transactions – approximately 90 since 2015. He is also responsible for all procurement matters including establishing new procurement contracts for the Group. According to Dr Macheiner, ‘the in-house legal role will get more and more business driven by taking into account all compliance issues to support the company as efficiently as possible and protecting it at the same time’, he says.