About

Fluent in four languages and recognised as a top performer, Kristin Hedlund was appointed general counsel by Schenker North AB in 2005, after six years as legal counsel. During her experience she has taken part in and led the legal team through a variety of large transactions and lawsuits. One of Hedlund’s first tasks was actioning the sale of a large portion of the business in a series of complex transactions to companies around the world. Heading a team of nine, Hedlund acts for Schenker North & East AB, covering northern Europe from Ireland to Russia. She says ‘uniting and developing a department that covers 14 countries’ is one of her biggest achievements. Hedlund’s efforts within the department have been focused on understanding the business as well as her business peers ‘so that we can support them much more than an outside counsel can’. Hedlund elaborates further, ‘value added is our key phrase and maintaining a very high level of service has been vital since my first day on the job’.