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Jan Bredehöft has been central to Huawei’s operations in Germany for some time, not only for his work on GDPR compliance and the implementation of a set of competition law compliance programmes, but also with regard to outsourcing and M&A transactions as well as the coordination of commercial contracts. Furthermore, he has a key role to play in handling and coordinating the legal advice related to cyber security. In an ever-expanding regulatory landscape, according to Bredehöft, it will become even more important to maintain the highly professional legal team in the company’s West European region. In the medium to long term future Bredehöft sees an expansion in technology among in-house counsel being matched by an increasing awareness of the value of interpersonal skills. ‘Due to the influence of legal tech and relevant IT tools, I would expect the amount of legal routine work to decrease substantially in the coming years. At the same time, legal departments will be able to show their growing value by providing strategic advice to the business rooted in a profound understanding of legal, compliance and political aspects of the business environment in an increasingly complex world. Outstanding communication skills in teams with diverse professional and cultural backgrounds will become even more important – not least to manage frequent dynamic changes in business and legal domains’, he explains.