About

Dr Uwe Foertsch assumed his current position as general counsel at Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems in May 2018. Previously, he served as general counsel at Ernst Russ (formerly HCI Capital) from 2007 to 2018. In his in-house legal career, Foertsch has had a number of highlights, including dealing with the restructuring of a publicly listed company with a volume of €1.6bn, handling civil court litigations of up to €130m as well as several ICC arbitrations of up to €2.5bn. He has also been heavily involved in several M&A transactions that amount to a total volume of €20m during the past few years. In his current role, Dr Foertsch has successfully integrated two legal departments that were previously part of two separate legal entities into one team, and standardised corporate housekeeping and legal templates such as NDAs. Talking about how he sees the in-house legal role evolving over the next few years, Dr Foertsch says: ‘[in-house counsel will be] much more involved in business, moving from a merely counsel status towards commercial business enabler’.