About

Having joined DEGES in 2009 as the head of legal department, Martin Regnath was later promoted to general counsel and authorised signatory in 2011. Since then, he has successfully built up his team, which now consists of 70 highly qualified individuals. Commenting on one of his career highlights, Regnath says, ‘When I started with DEGES, my team had the traditional role of a legal department. Our operative functions did their business and if anything went wrong, they asked us for help. During the years our role has completely changed. Nowadays, we are involved in the company’s projects from the beginning’. He has also established a culture of collaboration where ‘we trust each other and encourage each other to do independent and high quality work whilst sharing knowledge and experience with the whole team’. During his time in his current role, ‘we have reviewed our work methods, processes and structures. Where possible and necessary, we have adjusted, modified and reorganised workflows to enable agile work within the company. Furthermore, the processes have been defined with regard to scalability. They are meant to ensure decentralised work while maintaining the quality typical of our company’, Regnath states. ‘I want the legal division to be an innovation driver in the company supporting digitalisation and providing legal support for any new ideas to improve our company’s work’, he further comments. In addition to his in-house role, Regnath is also the founder and head of the expert group “Construction and Real Estate Law” within the “Bundesverband der Unternehmensjuristen (BUJ)”, which is Germany’s largest independent advocacy group for in-house lawyers.