About

A highly renowned and well-respected general counsel with a formidable career history, Arne Wittig spent more than two decades with Deutsche Bank, ultimately in the role of general counsel for Germany and Central Europe, before making a high-profile move to technology, industrials and steel conglomerate thyssenkrupp as group general counsel in 2012. Building on his experience in banking, he has emerged as a capital markets and corporate governance expert, having spent many years lecturing and producing a number of books on the topic, and capitalises on this at thyssenkrupp also; advising on the corporate governance of this stock-listed stock corporation and on capital market legal issues is a significant part of his activity. As well as this, Wittig has had an enormous role to play in the reorganisation and rationalisation of the legal function during his tenure with thyssenkrupp. His efforts in uniting the previously loosely-organised legal teams of the various strands of the company’s business lines managed to create a globally integrated legal function meeting the demands of a widely diversified business. Wittig’s role in aligning the approximately 200-person legal department of thyssenkrupp to shared business goals and close cooperation across business areas and countries is a remarkable achievement, and emblematic of his core philosophy of keeping the strategic goals of the business in mind at all times.