About

Jörg Mucke has led Sal. Oppenheim’s legal department since 2010, a particular career highlight and major task at a long established bank, founded in 1789 as private bank (and since 2009 a Deutsche Bank subsidiary). Mucke has since then successfully reshuffled areas of responsibility and refocused the department on its core competency, legal advice. Administrative and operational tasks have been reduced and tasks that are overall not primarily legal have been transferred to the relevant business units. Apart from this organisational challenge, Mucke has had to assume responsibility for the general legal and supervisory law issues the bank is facing; he has also been instrumental in providing legal counsel on the bank’s reorganisation after its takeover by Deutsche Bank. A task he has mastered successfully and he enjoys ‘to continuously evaluate new issues and matters’. Law firms have to provide ‘fewer long legal statements but instead brief, succinct advice’.