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As well as emphasising the innovative nature of the Bombardier Transportation legal team in terms of legal technology – they have started ‘to challenge the status quo through the changes that digitalisation will bring to products and services in the rail industry’ – head of group corporate, M&A and legal affairs Alexander Steinbrecher also mentions the ‘revised approach to managing external law firms and legal spend’ that his department has led in recent months: ‘The aim is not to work with a panel of global law firms, but to follow the principle of thinking globally and acting locally; defining a globally consistent way of engaging external lawyers, but hiring individual lawyers locally to ensure high quality and cost control’.

As for the team’s project work, Steinbrecher mentions that ‘the team has worked and continues to work on global outsourcing projects, continues to handle M&A matters in various jurisdictions and takes an active role in optimising the corporate structure of the over 150 legal entities through which the group company operates’. The team is perceived as a highly engaged and committed business partner and guardian in all of its other legal affairs at Bombardier Transportation. Jana Sauer, Iris Weber, Holly Roper, Susanne Muck and Dirk Sievert are members of the team who are well recognised in the legal community and have been key to the department’s success over recent months.