About

‘I am convinced that general counsel have to lead the way to bring their legal teams from a typically reactive, technically legal approach to a proactive, holistic mind-set of finding practicable solutions’. Mark Mauerhofer has tried to abide by this mantra during tenure, which led to the reorganisation of the group legal services department at OC Oerlikon. There are dedicated centres of competencies, synchronization and development of segment legal organisations, and he has also initiated better cooperation across special legal functions and also beyond the legal team in order to improve the collaboration with non-legal functions as well. He takes pride in his various major M&A projects, an example being the successful divestment of Solar and Advanced Technologies segments and the acquisition of the Metco Business. One highlight of his career includes the updating of existing and implementation of new effective and efficient internal processes and regulations in the fields of internal decision making processes, litigation management and contract management.