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Dr Stefan Brügmann has fused his legal expertise with a number of business positions during his career, which has allowed him to be particularly effective at taking other considerations into account when operating as general counsel. ‘Having worked as global head of HR for five years certainly intensified the importance I put on leadership issues’, he says. ‘In addition, working through the financial crisis with its special situations has greatly increased my resilience and long term views on management responsibility and being responsible for a number of M&A transactions has influenced my view on carful project planning on the one side and spontaneous overrides on the other’. Internally, recent months have seen a streamlining of responsibilities, an increased awareness on the part of the team towards cost management and a major effort towards digitalisation. ‘In a time of stronger cost pressures on the one side, more regulation on the other and a growing importance of digitalisation, issues will certainly lead to a number of interesting years’, Dr Brügmann explains. Most recently he was charged with combining HR and legal into one function within Helaba and has taken over the project responsibility to review all staff functions within Helaba’s current restructuring effort named “Scope”, a programme to give Helaba a sustainable growth perspective for the coming years.