About

Having joined the bank in 1997, Ulrich Freitag has gone through a number of exciting periods with IKB Deutsche Industriebank, including founding the company’s legal capital markets team and shepherding the institution through the challenges of the financial crisis, before assuming his current position of general counsel and head of legal. Now in a position where he coordinates extremely closely with senior management and advises on the key strategic matters, Freitag continues to innovate within the department. ‘The major highlights of my recent time with IKB Deutsche Industriebank have – beneath numerous complex capital market transactions – included the implementation of a cloud-based digital platform providing full digital workflow for the legal department and (prospectively) the whole company, including state-of-the-art search and analytic tools’, Freitag explains.