Team size :   31

How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crises, and how does your legal strategy align with the broader business strategy to ensure the organisation’s resilience? 

During periods of instability or crises, it is even more important to align legal strategies with business strategies. This helps to be better prepared to navigate crises and enhance resilience. As a legal team, we need to focus on our fundamentals. Clear priorities in times of crisis are risk assessment and management through identification of potential legal challenges by analysing contractual or regulatory obligations and potential challenges. There should be a focus on compliance with applicable laws and regulations. This is always important, but crucial during crisis times. Clear communication with stakeholders is critical to ensure alignment, trust and transparency. The legal team plays a critical role in the development and execution of a Crisis Response Plan and the support of a business continuity plan.

What strategic priorities are guiding your team in 2025?

A clear focus area is to support the business priorities, for example in trade and supplier negotiations, as well as product innovation. It is furthermore critical to navigate the complex regulatory environment in the commercialization of our products, ensuring compliance with the data privacy rules and to meaningfully and legally compliant integrate artificial intelligence in our daily work. Last but not least, a focus on team and talent development continues to be critical in 2025.

What emerging technologies do you see as having the most significant impact on the legal profession in the near future, and how do you stay updated on these developments? 

In my view, artificial intelligence and data analytics are two emerging technologies which play an increasing role in transforming the work of the in-house legal profession. And there are many ways to stay updated on respective developments, including legal technology newsletters, webinars or CLE courses, just to name a few.